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WDTPRS Collect 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “Billy loves bugs.”
Today’s prayer was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary.
Were you to hear this prayer intoned in Latin, or at least in an accurate translation, you would … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged affectus, charity, love, luv, St. Bonaventure
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WDTPRS Baptism of the Lord – He must increase, we must decrease
Last week … well… actually the SIXTH of January… we saw that Epiphany traditionally observes three mysteries of the Lord’s life revealing Him as divine: the adoration of Jesus by the Magi, the changing water to wine at Cana, and … Continue reading
WDTPRS: Epiphany – Christ is the visible image of the invisible God.
In the ancient Western Church and in the East, Epiphany was more important than the relative latecomer Christmas. Epiphany is from the Greek word for a divine “manifestation” or “revelation”. There are many “epiphanies” of God in the Scripture. Think, … Continue reading
WDTPRS – Sunday in the Octave of Christmas (1962MR)
What is going on in today’s ….
COLLECT (1962MR):
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, dirige actus nostros in beneplacito tuo: ut in nomine dilecti Filii tui mereamur bonis operibus abundare.
This Collect survived the surgeons of Bugnini’s Consilium to live on in the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time … Continue reading
WDTPRS Childermas – Holy Innocents
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child,
By by, lully lullay, thou little tiny child,
By by, lully lullay.
O sisters too, How may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling,
For whom we do sing,
By by, lully lullay?
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child,
By … Continue reading
WDTPRS: Holy Family – children first learn who God is by knowing their parents
This coming Sunday in the post-Conciliar, Novus Ordo, Ordinary Form calendar, is the Feast of the Holy Family. In the traditional Roman calendar, Holy Family will be on 11 January.
The place God Incarnate chose to begin manifesting His sacrificial love, … Continue reading
WDTPRS 4th Sunday of Advent (2002MR): Seeing is believing.
This Sunday’s Collect is also the Post Communion for the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962MR).
The Annunciation was the moment of the Incarnation of our Lord. Therefore, on that feast and … Continue reading
Posted in ADVENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged ADVENT, Angelus, Crede ut intellegas, Magnificat, Rorate, St. Augustine of Hippo
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WDTPRS 3rd Sunday of Advent – “the childlike dash towards the long-desired thing”
We are coming to the 3rd Sunday of Advent, also nicknamed Gaudete…. the plural imperative of gaudeo, “Rejoice!”. This Sunday there is a relaxation of the penitential aspect of Advent.
Yes, Advent is a penitential time, though not so much as … Continue reading
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Tagged ADVENT, rosacea, rose
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WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Advent: “we escape neither the Enemy lion nor the glorious Lion of Judah”
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Our Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century.
Omnipotens et … Continue reading
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Tagged consors, lutum, St. Augustine
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WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Advent: true Advent preparation
It is possible that we are already back to Advent?
Advent begins a new liturgical year. Each year Holy Church presents the history of our salvation and the mysteries of the life, death, resurrection and the return of the Lord. Each … Continue reading
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Tagged ADVENT, crossing sweeper, translation
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