Category Archives: WDTPRS

Let’s have a look at the prayers for Holy Mass with the 2002 Missale Romanum.  In the print version of the WDTPRS in The Wanderer we are examining the prayers for the 1962 Missale. For those of you who want … Read More →

Here is the Collect for Saturday of the 2nd Week of Advent. This prayer has its roots in Rotulus 19 published with the Veronese Sacramentary.  It is also in Gelasian Sacramentary.  It was not in any edition of the Missale … Read More →

Here is the Collect for the 2nd Week of Advent. This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary but not in any edition of the Missale Romanum before the Novus Ordo. COLLECT: Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, plebi tuae adventum Unigeniti … Read More →

We continue our Advent project. Here is the Collect for Thursday of the 2nd Week of Advent COLLECT: Excita, Domine, corda nostra ad praeparandas Unigeniti tui vias, ut, per eius adventum, purificatis tibi mentibus servire mereamur. This was in the … Read More →

Here is the Collect for Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Advent. COLLECT: Omnipotens Deus, qui nos praecipis iter Christo Domino praeparare, concede propitius, ut nullis infirmitatibus fatigemur, qui caelestis medici consolantem praesentiam sustinemus. This prayer is ancient, from Rotulus … Read More →

Today we will continue our Advent preparation with a look at today’s COLLECT: Deus, qui salutare tuum cunctis terrae finibus declarasti, tribue, quaesumus, ut nativitatis eius gloriam laetanter praesolemur. The wonderfully apt verb praestolor, deponent (passive in form but active … Read More →

Here is the Collect for Monday of the 2nd Week of Advent COLLECT: Dirigatur, quaesumus, Domine, in conspectu tuo nostrae petitionis oratio, ut ad magnum incarnationis Unigeniti tui mysterium nostrae vota servitutis illibata puritate perveniant. This prayer is in Rotulus … Read More →

Here is the Collect for Thursday of the 1st week of Advent. COLLECT: Excita, Domine, potentiam tuam, et magna nobis virtute succurre, ut, quod nostra peccata praepediunt, gratia tuae propitiationis acceleret. This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and … Read More →

Let’s continue our Advent preparation with a look at the Collect for Wednesday of the 1st Week of Advent.COLLECT:Praepara, quaesumus, Domine Deus noster,corda nostra divina tua virtute,ut, veniente Christo Filio tuo,digni inveniamur aeternae vitae convivio,et cibum caelestem, ipso ministrante, percipere … Read More →

In the past, we have seen day by day the Collects for all the days of Lent according to the Novus Ordo.  I thought I would do something similar with the prayers for Advent. I won’t make references to the … Read More →