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WDTPRS 1st Sunday of Lent (N.O.): The Lenten “Sacrament”
The Roman Station for the 1st Sunday of Lent 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 … Continue reading
Posted in LENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Church Militant, conversatio, LENT, Sacramentum
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WDTPRS – 5th Ordinary Sunday: The clarion clear call
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany.
Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, on the other hand, of soldiers.
Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine,
continua pietate custodi,
ut, quae in sola spe gratiae caelestis innititur,
tua semper … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged CCC 733, Church Militant, custodio, disciplina, innitor, munio, pietas
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WDTPRS – 32nd Ordinary Sunday: Ideals for the Christian, pilgrim soldier on the march
Let’s look at the Collect for the 32nd Ordinary Sunday, keeping that today, Saturday, is Veterans Day (DONATE to the Archdiocese for Military Services!).
Sunday’s Collect has an antecedent in the Gelasian Sacramentary, is also used in the Extraordinary Form on the 19th Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged CCC 1742, Church Militant, expediti, St. Expeditus
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#WDTPRS – 23rd Ordinary Sunday: Who we are and what we are to do.
The Collect for the 23rd Ordinary Sunday – this 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. You have … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 17th Ordinary Sunday: Demon-Kevlar, Sin Teflon
Shall we look at the Collect for this Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form?
COLLECT (2002MR):
Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum, multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam, ut, te rectore, te duce, sic bonis transeuntibus nunc utamur, ut iam possimus … Continue reading
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Tagged acedia, Church Militant, John 14:30, John 8:44, kevlar, teflon
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WDTPRS – 5th Ordinary Sunday: A clear and certain trumpet
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany. Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, on the other hand, a group of dutiful soldiers.
Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine,
continua pietate custodi,
ut, quae in sola spe … Continue reading
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged CCC 733, Church Militant, custodio, disciplina, innitor, munio, pietas
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WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Epiphany: YOU, weary foot soldier of the Church Militant
This Collect sometimes winds up at the end of the liturgical year, depending on when Easter, and therefore Pentecost, falls. This year, because Easter is a little later, we have it before Septuagesima.
COLLECT (1962MR):
Deus, qui nos in tantis periculis constitutos pro … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 32nd Ordinary Sunday: As lightly burdened foot soldiers…
Let’s look at the Collect for the 32nd Ordinary Sunday, keeping in mind that we are getting close to Veterans Day (DONATE to the Archdiocese for Military Services!).
Sunday’s Collect has an antecedent in the Gelasian Sacramentary, is also used in the Extraordinary Form … Continue reading
ASK FATHER: How to “steel ourselves” and not come down off from our crosses?
From a reader…
QUAERITUR:
Dear Father Z, In your post regarding the 18th Sunday after Pentecost you advised us to steel ourselves and not come down off from our crosses. Would you be so kind as to offer some specific devotions/practices to … 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
