Category Archives: WDTPRS

What Does the Prayer Really Say?   Sexagesima Sunday (1962 Missale Romanum) Roman station Mass: St. Paul outside the walls In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Sexagesima, Latin for the “Sixtieth” day before Easter.  This number is more … Read More →

The following is my article for the weekly newspaper The Wanderer. Some of you who are more recent readers of this blog may not know that for years I have written a column in The Wanderer about liturgical translations.  I … Read More →

Epiphany is from the Greek word for a divine “manifestation” or “revelation”. The Church’s liturgy for the feast, especially in its antiphons for Vespers, reflect the tradition that Epiphany was thought to be the day not only when the Magi … Read More →

Here is a link to my WDTPRS article on the Vigil of Epiphany. A snip: … in the 2002 editio typica of the Missale Romanum there is now a new Vigil Mass with its own texts. There was no Vigil … Read More →

What Does the Prayer Really Say? Christmas Day – Roman Station: 1st and 3rd Masses – Basilica of St. Mary Major, 2nd Mass – St. Anastasia ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 The Solemnity of the Nativity of the … Read More →

We are now very close. Today’s Collect is the Post-communion of the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) in the 1962MR. Most of you who recite the Angelus know this prayer.  This time we also get the WDTPRS version since … Read More →

Here is the Collect for 21 December. COLLECT: Preces populi tui, quaesumus, Domine, clementer exaudi, ut, qui de Unigeniti tui in nostra carne adventu laetantur, cum venerit in sua maiestate, aeternae vitae praemium consequantur. This prayer is pretty much identical … Read More →

Here is the Collect for 19 December in the 2002MR, duing this period of intense preparation before Christmas: COLLECT: Deus, qui splendorem gloriae tuae per sacrae Virginis partum mundo dignatus es revelare, tribue, quaesumus, ut tantae incarnationis mysterium et fidei … Read More →

In these final days of Advent preparation, the Church prays with great intensity.  Here is today’s COLLECT: Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, qui sub peccati iugo ex vetusta servitute deprimimur, expectata Unigeniti tui nova nativitate liberemur. This was in the … Read More →