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WDTPRS Collect 19th Sunday after Pentecost- “Why did God make you?”
The snippers and stitchers of the Consilium allowed this Sunday’s prayer to survive unscathed in the post-Conciliar editions of the Missale Romanum. The Collect still echoes the ancient sentiments of Holy Church wherever the Roman Rite’s Ordinary Use of Holy … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged adversary, adversity, catechetics, Expeditus, memorization
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WDTPRS – 26th Ordinary Sunday: Bowels of Mercy
Our Collect for the 26th Ordinary Sunday, slightly different from its ancestor in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary, is also in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost. Deus, qui omnipotentiam tuam parcendo maxime et miserando manifestas, gratiam … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged bowels of mercy, Colossians 3:12, compassion, consors, GS 22, justice, mercy, racham, Redemptor hominis 9
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WDTPRS – 18th Sunday after Pentecost: Who says mercy has to be gentle? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
The Collect for Sunday Mass this week in the Extraordinary Form wound up in the Ordinary Form Missale Romanum as the Collect for Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent. Go figure. It had an ancient source in the Gelasian … Continue reading
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged correction, mercy
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WDTPRS – 25th Ordinary Sunday: Do you have unfinished business?
This week’s Collect for Mass for the 25th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo, obviously), was introduced into the Missale Romanum with the Novus Ordo but it is influenced by a prayer in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary. Deus, qui sacrae legis omnia constituta … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 24th Ordinary Sunday: “Is God is our cosmic concierge?”
The Collect for the 24th Ordinary Sunday was not in pre-Conciliar editions of the Roman Missal but it has an antecedent in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary among the prayers used during September. Respice nos, rerum omnium Deus creator et rector, … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged concierge, conf. 3, Deus Creator Omnium, prayer, propitiatio, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas
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WDTPRS – 17th Sunday after Pentecost: Shun diabolical contamination!
Sunday’s Collect prayer did not survive the scalpel-wielding experts of the Consilium, slicing and suturing our orations under the surveillance of the late then-Fr. Annibale Bugnini. It was not in the typical edition of 1970 or the edito altera of … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 16th Sunday after Pentecost: good works bound up in grace
This Sunday’s dense Collect survived the scissors and paste-pots of the Consilium during the 1960’s and lived on in the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum as the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time (next week). This prayer, used for centuries, is in the … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 23rd Ordinary Sunday: Children of God, Soldiers of Christ
The Collect for the 23rd Ordinary Sunday was not in any pre-Conciliar edition of the Roman Missal, but it was in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary in a section for evening prayers during Paschaltide. Deus, per quem nobis et redemptio … Continue reading
WDTPRS 15th Sunday after Pentecost: Holy Church, Peter’s Barque
This Sunday’s Collect for Holy Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite survived the long knives of the Consilium to live on the in the Novus Ordo editions of the Missale Romanum on Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Figure that … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Barque of Peter, gubernator, guberno, nautical imagery
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WDTPRS – 22nd Ordinary Sunday: graft the love of Your Name into our hearts
With small differences our Collect for the upcoming 22nd Ordinary Sunday is based on a prayer in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary and, subsequently, one in the 1962 Roman Missal for the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost. Deus virtutum, cuius est … Continue reading
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Tagged insero, LA 51, Lord God Sabaoth, Sabaoth, sabbath, Sanctus, tsaba’, VIRTUS
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WDTPRS – 14th Sunday after Pentecost: healths, hands and the finger
This Sunday’s Collect for the Extraordinary Form survived the snipping and pasting of the Consilium and the late Annibale Bugnini’s liturgical experts to be used in the Ordinary Form on Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent. Figure that one … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: When “values” replace “virtues”
Let’s look at the Collect for the upcoming 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Deus, qui fidelium mentes unius efficis voluntatis, da populis tuis id amare quod praecipis, id desiderare quod promittis, ut, inter mundanas varietates, ibi nostra fixa sint corda, … Continue reading
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged values, virtues
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WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday: snatched up into invisible love
The Collect for the 20th Ordinary Sunday, found also in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary, is in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum, … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged affectus, amor, Christmas, consequor, desiderium, diligo, eros, promissio, Richard of St. Victor
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WDTPRS – 12th Sunday after Pentecost: FORWARD!
Today’s Collect survived the liturgico-surgical scalpels of the Bugniniites to live on in the Novus Ordo for the 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time. The prayer is ancient, and results in the Gelasian Sacramentary as well as in the Veronese Sacramentary during … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Consilium, curro, munus, offendo, offensio, servio, tria munera
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WDTPRS – 19th Ordinary Sunday: Trusting Audacity, Harrowing Consolation
The Collect for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time was not in previous editions Missale Romanum before the 1970 Novus Ordo. It has roots in the 9th century Sacramentary of Bergamo and thus is ancient text… sort of. Note that for … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Abba, adoptio, Romans 8:15, sonship, St. Thomas Aquinas
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