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Monthly Archives: March 2011
26 March 2011
Reason #64675 for the new, corrected translation.
I am not making this up.
Here is the Post Communion for the 3rd Sunday of Lent in the Ordinary Form, the 2002MR, a new composition for the 1970MR based on a prayer in the Veronese Sacramentary.
LATIN (2002 Missale Romanum):
Sumentes pignus … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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WDTPRS 3rd Sunday of Lent – We are not in our Lenten discipline alone.
Our prayer, taken from the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for Saturday of the 4th week of Lent
COLLECT – LATIN TEXT (2002MR):
Deus, omnium misericordiarum et totius bonitatis auctor,
qui peccatorum remedia
in ieiuniis, orationibus et eleemosynis demonstrasti,
hanc humilitatis nostrae confessionem propitius intuere,
ut, qui inclinamur … Continue reading
Posted in WDTPRS
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The Feeder Feed: “Is it spring yet?” edition
The Finches are changing their colors, the Nuthatches and Chickadees aren’t chummy anymore, I have spotted Robins so I know that spring is here. No really. It is. That’s what I keep telling myself.
That’s why there are icicles still hanging … Continue reading
LENTCAzT 18: Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent
These 5 minute daily podcasts for Lent are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.
Today is Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent. … Continue reading
25 March 2011
QUAERITUR: Different methods of Stations of the Cross, indulgences
From a reader:
I went to a church for Mass and Stations on my way home from work. My home parish uses the stations in the way of St. Alphonsus, but the stations at the church I visited left me with … Continue reading
Summorum Pontificum, Latin, liberals, TLMs, seminarians, Magic Circles and an Instruction
From Damian Thompson’s blog comes a piece about Latin, seminarians, the Extraordinary Form and liberal enemies of all of the above, with my emphases and comments. Edited.
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In contrast, the proposal to teach all seminarians to celebrate the Tridentine Mass is … Continue reading
Catholic Herald DIGITAL: discount until 30 March – only £10 ($16)
I always look at The Catholic Herald, the UK’s best Catholic weekly. As a matter of of fact, I not only look at it, I now write for it too! That’s new since last I told you about the discount … Continue reading
Vingt ans après
Twenty years ago today, I was into the office rather early. The “office” I am talking about are the offices of the Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” on the ground floor of the Palazzo del Sant’Uffizio.
Being the first one in, I … Continue reading
Should you ever advise someone not to become a Catholic?
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald, comes this… with a quote from one of WDTPRS’s favorites… sorry, favourites, His Hermeneuticalness.
Archbishop Antonio Mennini, Apostolic Nuncio to Britain, says in an interview with the Herald this week that he … Continue reading
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity
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What will the art in the CTS Roman Missal be like?
On the site of the Catholic Truth Society, UK publisher of the new Roman Missal with the new, corrected ICEL translation, there are some images of … images in the new book.
A sample.
Posted in Brick by Brick, Just Too Cool
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Confraternity of Catholic Clergy in the UK!
I am delighted to relate to the readership that there is now a Confraternity of Catholic Clergy in the UK. The British Province of St. Pope Gregory the Great.
I am sure they chose Gregory the Great (+604) because he sent … Continue reading
Annunciation – help!
OLDIE PODCAzT: Annunciation.
This is the very Feast of the Incarnation.
Today we celebrate that moment when our Lord elevated our humanity by taking our human nature into an indestructible bond with His Divinity. In the Incarnation God opened for us … Continue reading
Posted in WDTPRS
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LENTCAzT 17: Friday of the 2nd Week of Lent
These 5 minute daily podcasts for Lent are intended to give you a small boost every day, a little encouragement in your own use of this holy season.
Yes, this is the Feast of the Annunciation. But this is … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
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24 March 2011
WDTPRS Thursday in the 2nd Week of Lent (2002MR) – steadfastness and the human heart
In the older, pre-conciliar Missal, today’s Collect was used on Wednesday of the 2nd Week of Lent as an Oratio super populum or “Prayer over the people” which followed the Post Communions of the Mass. As such, … Continue reading
