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Tag Archives: Church Militant
WDTPRS 1st Sunday of Lent (2002MR): what we can learn in no other way
Today’s Roman Station 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 Latin word for the season of Lent, literally … Continue reading
Posted in LENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Church Militant, conversatio, LENT, Sacramentum
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WDTPRS 32nd Ordinary Sunday – as lightly burdened foot soldiers on an urgent mission
We look today at the Collect for the 32nd Ordinary Sunday, close to Veterans Day 2013 (DONATE to the Archdiocese for Military Services!) which, having an antecedent in the Gelasian Sacramentary, is also used in the Extraordinary Form on 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 venit … Continue reading
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Tagged adoptio filiorum, Cassiodorus, Church Militant, praesto, St. Ambrose, St. Hilary of Poitier
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WDTPRS: 17th Ordinary Sunday – Sin-Teflon, Demon-Kevlar
The 1962MR places today’s Collect at the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost though it is a little different from the newer version, to wit: sic transeamus per bona temporalia, ut non amittamus aeterna.
Historically the prayer has roots in the ancient “Leonine” … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged acedia, Church Militant, John 14:30, John 8:44
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1953: Pius XII to American seminarians: be holy, heroes, officers of the Church Militant (quotes St. Charles Borromeo)
Because I am still having some internet problems and composition of posts is a little hard, I have pulled a couple things from the archives in which St. Charles Borromeo is mentioned. (His heart, by the way, in the great … Continue reading
31 July – St. Ignatius of Loyola: Church Militant
Here is the Martyrologium Romanum entry for this great saint and founder of the Society of Jesus. (To the right is my first class relic of St. Ignatius).
Memoria sancti Ignatii de Loyola, presbyteri, qui, hispanus in Cantabria natus, in aula … Continue reading
Posted in Saints: Stories & Symbols, WDTPRS
Tagged Church Militant, Gesù, St. Ignatius Loyola
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GUEST ENTRY: Praying and vesting in armor before combat and before Holy Mass
When a priest prepares for Holy Mass it is customary for him to say prayers as he dons each vestments. When putting on the amice, he lets it rest on the top of his head briefly and he says the … Continue reading
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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