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    8 December 2006

    Happy Birthday WDTPRS Blog!

    CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULA — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 10:29 am

    Today is the 1st anniversary of the first entry on this blog.

    What a year!  I might finally be getting the hang of things.

    Thank you all for helping to make this blog a success.

    Thanks to all of you for making a donation to help keep it running (Deo volente).

    On the first day, 8 December 2005, I posted this photo taken the night Pope Benedict was elected.  I was pretty tired, after all the stuff from the previous days with Fox News and writing and all.  But when I got home, this is what I saw.  It might be the only time you will see a photo of both the Basilica and the Apostolic Palace illuminated!  I posted it at 10:29 am (Rome time).

    This seems a good way to observe the occation of the 1st anniversary.


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    8 December at Dodici Apostoli

    CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULA — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 8:12 am

    Here is shot from the Basilica of the Twelve Apostles in Rome, where there is a famous Novena before the Immacolata.  A bishop is about to celebrate Mass.


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    1st Week of Advent - Friday

    CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 12:33 am

    While today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, for the sake of being complete let us look at the Collect for Friday of the 1st Week of Advent:

    This prayer was in the 1962 Missale Romanum and is taken from the ancient Gregorian Sacramentary.

    COLLECT:

    Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni,
    ut, ab imminentibus peccatorum nostrorum periculis,
    te mereamur protegente eripi,
    te liberante salvari.

    LITERAL VERSION:
    Rouse up Your might, we beseech You, O Lord, and come,
    that, as You are protecting us, we may merit to be snatched away
    from the menacing dangers of our sins
    and, as You are freeing us, be saved.

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