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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS and AUDIO: The Exsultet – explained, translated, sung
It’s hard to believe but this post goes back to 2005! 14 years ago! I always get requests about the Exsultet, so here you are. ___ Originally published in 2005 The EXSULTET is one of the most spectacular moments of … Continue reading
WDTPRS – Spy Wednesday, the last Collect of Lent
The term “Spy” Wednesday is probably an allusion to Christ’s betrayal by Judas. This prayer was the Collect for this same day in the 1962 Missale Romanum. It was also in the ancient Gregorian Sacramentary in both the Hadrianum and … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Lent- Laetare: Prompt devotion, eager faith – PHOTOS
The nickname Laetare originated from the first word of the Introit chant for Sunday’s Mass, “Rejoice!” On Laetare Sunday there is a slight relaxation of Lent’s penitential spirit, because we have a glimpse of the joy that is coming at Easter, … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday of Lent (NO): a more perfect “view”
Here is the Collect of the 2nd Sunday of Lent, a new composition for the Novus Ordo based on a precedent in the Liber Mozarabicus Sacramentorum: Deus, qui nobis dilectum Filium tuum audire praecepisti, verbo tuo interius nos pascere digneris, ut, spiritali … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Lent (Novus Ordo): The transforming Lenten “Sacrament”
The Roman Station for the 1st Sunday of Lent is St. John Lateran. COLLECT – LATIN TEXT (2002MR): Concede nobis, omnipotens Deus, ut, per annua quadragesimalis exercitia sacramenti, et ad intellegendum Christi proficiamus arcanum, et effectus eius digna conversatione sectemur. Quadragesima is the … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 8th Ordinary Sunday: The “Barque of Peter” on turbulent seas
Let us has a swift look at the Collect for the upcoming 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time. This formulary doesn’t present itself each year because of the vagaries of the Moon. This year, in the Ordinary Form, there are more … Continue reading
WDTPRS – Quinquagesima Sunday: Prepare for the fight of your life!
In our traditional Roman calendar, this coming Sunday is Quinquagesima, Latin for the symbolic “Fiftieth” day before Easter. This is one of the pre-Lenten Sundays which prepare us for the discipline of Lent. The priest’s vestments are purple. No Gloria. No Alleluia. … Continue reading
WDTPRS – Septuagesima Sunday: PRE-LENT BEGINS!
While in the new-fangled calendar Sunday is the 6th in Ordinary Time, and celebrated in green vestments,in the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Septuagesima, Latin for the “Seventieth” day before Easter. The Roman Station for Septuagesima is St. … Continue reading
WDTPRS: 5th Sunday after Epiphany AND 5th Ordinary Sunday: Familial military or martial family?
This Sunday we have what often winds up as a “left over”, or a “remaining” or even a “Where the heck is this Sunday in my Missal?!?” Sunday. Because the vagueries of your planets Moon, this year we get quite … Continue reading
WDTPRS: The new Latin Collect for Paul VI – a key phrase hunted up
In the Bolletino today we find liturgical decrees and texts pertaining to the celebration (in the Ordinary Form) of the recently canonized Paul VI. His optional memorial will be 29 May, the annivesary of his ordination to the priesthood. He … Continue reading
WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday after Epiphany – liturgical unicorn
Here is what I offered for my weekly column for the UK’s best Catholic weekly the Catholic Herald – now also in the USA. This week we encounter a liturgical unicorn. We shall celebrate the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 2nd Mass of Christmas (1962MR): bathed in new light
Originally, the second Mass of Christmas went together with Lauds. The antiphons of Lauds form a kind of call and response, or question and answer cant about the experience of the shepherds coming to find the Christ Child. Sometimes the … Continue reading
WDTPRS – Gaudete Sunday: “good news” of the chaff’s destiny in “unquenchable fire”
The 3rd Sunday of Advent is nicknamed “Gaudete … Rejoice!”, from the first word of the first chant, the Introit. Today we relax slightly our penitential focus during Advent. Some say Advent is not a penitential time, even though it … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost: Beg His help. Beg His mercy. Praise Him for His gifts.
This is the Last Sunday of the liturgical year. The last part of the liturgical year thematically dovetails with the first part of the new liturgical year. Advent was once longer, so the overlap of reflection on the End Times across … Continue reading
21 Nov: Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. With a prayer of my own.
Today is the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Presentation in the Temple. The Collect for the Mass in the traditional form: Deus, qui beátam Maríam semper Vírginem, Spíritus Sancti habitáculum, hodiérna die in templo præsentári voluísti: præsta, qu?sumus; ut, … Continue reading
