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WDTPRS Trinity Sunday – shared glory, majesty’s gift
The First Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday, a day some well-catechized Catholics dread for what they may hear from the pulpit.
You might, for example, hear that the Trinity is like three burning candles twisted together to have one flame, … Continue reading
Lest We Forget: Of surveys, liturgical translations and whining
It has been brought to my attention that there is a survey about how priests in these USA are accepting – or not – the new, corrected ICEL translation of the Roman Missal.
STILL? Are they still grizzling on about THIS?
The … Continue reading
WDTPRS: Pentecost Sunday: weaving and imbuing and saving and dyeing
The Fiftieth Day Feast, Hebrew Shavuot or Greek Pentekosté, for the Jews commemorated the descent of God’s Law to Moses on Mount Sinai, wreathed in fire, fifty days after the Exodus. Fifty days after Our Lord’s Resurrection (the perfect number … Continue reading
Posted in Linking Back, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged exordium, Pentecost, selvage, Shavuot
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WDTPRS – Vigil of Pentecost (1962MR): from gerbils to lions
COLLECT (1962MR):
Praesta, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut claritatis tuae super nos splendor effulgeat; et lux tuae lucis corda eorum, qui per gratiam tuam renati sunt, Sancti Spiritus illustratione confirmet.
Splendor and claritas are related to the concept of glory and of light. … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged gerbils, Pentecost, vigil, Vigil of Pentecost
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WDTPRS Do It Yourself: Friday after (transferred) Ascension
Here is an exercise for you Latinists out there.
Here is the Collect for the Friday after Ascension where Ascension is transferred to Sunday.
Exaudi, Domine, preces nostras, ut, quod tui Verbi sanctificatione promissum est, evangelico ubique compleatur effectu, et plentiudo adoptionis … Continue reading
Innovative Reform of the Novus Ordo: Vigil of Ascension (2002MR)
In some places the Feast of the Ascension (which since the 4th century has fallen on a Thursday) has been transferred to next Sunday, thus making it “Ascension Thursday Sunday”. I’ll rant about the transfer in another entry.
The 3rd edition … Continue reading
WDTPRS: St. Athanasius – propugnator, champion
In both the traditional Roman calendar and the post-Conciliar calendar today is the feast of St. Athanasius, Doctor of the Church.
Let’s have a quick look at the Collect for the Mass for St. Athanasius in the Ordinary Form..
2002MR:
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus,
qui … Continue reading
WDTPRS: 4th Sunday of Easter (2002MR) – Our humility and the might of the Shepherd
For this 4th Sunday of Easter, Good Shepherd Sunday, we have a little gem for a Collect.
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, deduc nos ad societatem caelestium gaudiorum, ut eo perveniat humilitas gregis, quo processit fortitudo pastoris.
Note the nice eo…quo construction and the … Continue reading
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged epistrophe, exitus, fortitudo, Good Shepherd, humilitas, proodos, reditus, societas, synchesis, synecdoche, tessera
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WDTPRS 3rd Sunday after Easter (1962MR): Be distinguished by your profession of Christ!
This Sunday’s Collect survived the knives of the liturgical experts and was inserted into the 1970 Missale Romanum on the 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time. The redactors who glued the Novus Ordo together, however, removed the word iustitiae, thus returning it to the … Continue reading
Posted in New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged dante, Inferno, Peripatetics
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WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday after Easter (1962MR): devastation and rising
Let’s see what happened to today’s Collect in the 1962MR when it was ported over into the 1970MR.
COLLECT (1962MR):
Deus, qui Filii tui humilitate iacentem mundum erexisti:
fidelibus tuis sanctam concede laetitiam;
ut, quos perpetuae mortis eripuisti casibus,
gaudiis facias perfrui sempiternis.
With a … Continue reading


























