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Category Archives: LENT
22 February 2012
WDTPRS – Ash Wednesday (2002MR) – WAR!
The Roman Station for Ash Wednesday is Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill.
The Collect in the 2002 Missale Romanum, is an ancient prayer found in the Gelasian Sacramentary for the Vigil of Pentecost. It is also among the prayers for … Continue reading
Posted in LENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Ash Wednesday, Church Militant, discipline, LENT, religion, soldiers, spiritual combat
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LENTCAzT 01: Ash Wednesday – Christianity includes the Cross
Today is Ash Wednesday. Lent begins in the Latin, Roman Church.
Many of you between the ages of 18 and your 59th birthday are, today, bound both to fast and also to abstain from eating flesh, meat. Plan accordingly. Read this … Continue reading
Posted in LENT, LENTCAzT, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity
Tagged Ash Wednesday, LENT, LENTCAzT, podcast
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17 February 2012
WDTRPS Quinquagesima Sunday: prepare for battle
In our traditional Roman calendar Sunday is Quinquagesima, Latin for the symbolic “Fiftieth” day before Easter. This the final pre-Lenten Sunday before for the annual discipline of Lent begins.
The prayers and readings for the pre-Lenten Sundays were compiled by … Continue reading
Posted in LENT, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged discipline, LENT, pre-lent, Quinquagesima, sacrament of penance
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4 February 2012
WDTPRS Septuagesima Sunday: strength in time of oppression
In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Septuagesima, Latin for the “Seventieth” day before Easter. This number is more symbolic than arithmetical. The Sundays which follow are Sexagesima (“sixtieth”) and Quinquagesima (“fiftieth”) before Ash Wednesday brings in Lent, … Continue reading
22 April 2011
WDTPRS Good Friday: cruor… streaming gore
Cruor has a precise meaning: “Blood (which flows from a wound), a stream of blood (more restricted in meaning than sanguis, which designates both that circulating in bodies and that shed by wounding).
ORATIO:
Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, Domine,
et famulos tuos aeterna protectione … Continue reading
21 April 2011
WDTPRS Holy “Maundy” Thursday in the Triduum
The term “Maunday” or “Maundy” Thursday refers to Christ’s mandate (mandatum) in John 13:34 to His apostles in the service of the Church. It is also called sometimes “Shere” Thursday, perhaps from “shere” indicating “tolerance” and “remedy”, in the … Continue reading
20 April 2011
WDTPRS Spy Wednesday in Holy Week
The term “Spy” Wednesday is probably an allusion to Christ’s betrayal by Judas.
COLLECT
Deus, qui pro nobis Filium tuum
crucis patibulum subire voluisti,
ut inimici a nobis expelleres potestatem,
concede nobis famulis tuis,
ut resurrectionis gratiam consequamur.
This prayer was the Collect for this same day … Continue reading
Posted in LENT, WDTPRS
Tagged Cross, gibbet, Holy Week, Judas, Romans, Spy Wednesday, yoke
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AP Story on the Roman Station Churches
Speaking of my LENTCAzTs, which always spend a moment looking at the Roman Station church for the day….
Once upon a time I would be the celebrant for Lenten Station Masses in Rome for a confraternity dedicated to the Roman Martyrs, … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, LENT, LENTCAzT, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged NAC, Nicole Winfield, North American College, Roman Stations
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19 April 2011
WDTPRS Tuesday in Holy Week: strengthening our grasp on Christ, His grasp on us
[A special note for priests alone at the end. Nobody else look! o{];¬) ]
COLLECT (2002MR):
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus,
da nobis ita dominicae passionis sacramenta peragere,
ut indulgentiam percipere mereamur.
This prayer was in the 1962MR on Tuesday of Holy Week. It was in the … Continue reading
16 April 2011
WDTPRS – Palm Sunday: an example so perfect that it has the power to transform us
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. The Sacred Triduum (triduum from tres dies – “three day space”) were once days of obligation when people were freed from servile work so that they could attend the liturgies, … Continue reading
WDTPRS: Saturday in the 5th Week of Lent
COLLECT (2002MR)
Deus, qui omnes in Christo renatos
genus electum et regale sacerdotium fecisti,
da nobis et velle et posse quod praecipis,
ut populo ad aeternitatem vocato
una sit fides cordium et pietas actionum.
In the Tridentinum there is a prayer from Holy Saturday after the … Continue reading
15 April 2011
WDTPRS Friday 5th Week of Lent: “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle”
COLLECT
Absolve, quaesumus,
Domine, tuorum delicta populorum,
ut a peccatorum nexibus,
quae pro nostra fragilitate contraximus,
tua benignitate liberemur.
In the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum this prayer was the Collect of the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost. In the ancient Veronese Sacramentary it was found in the … Continue reading
STATIONS OF THE CROSS (PODCAzTs from Fr. Z)
Many parishes and chapels will have the Via Crucis or Stations of the Cross during Lent.
What version does your parish use?
I have audio projects with the Way of the Cross.
Here is a reading of the Via Crucis, the Way … Continue reading
Stations of the Cross - Joseph Ratzinger (Good Friday 2005) [65:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download Stations of the Cross by St. Alphonsus Liguori (with chant) [34:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download14 April 2011
10 April 2011
Passiontide – Veiling of Crosses and images – WDTPRS POLL
There is a WDTPRS POLL below. Also, think about taking a camera to church or taking a photo with your phone.
In the 1962 Missale Romanum, the Extraordinary Use of the Roman Rite, this is First Passion Sunday. In the … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, LENT, POLLS
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