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WDTPRS 3rd Sunday after Easter (1962MR): Be distinguished by your profession of Christ!

Posted on 20 April 2013 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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 →

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WDTPRS 30th Ordinary Sunday: In His will is our peace.

Posted on 27 October 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Let’s look at the Collect for the 30th Ordinary Sunday, a prayer also in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost.  It was in the ancient Veronese and the Gelasian Sacramentary.
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis fidei spei … Continue reading →

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A Sunday afternoon riff on salty bread and Chinese noodles

Posted on 27 May 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am enjoying a break in my evening for a bit of frivolous entertainment. I was going to watch Bladerunner, but opted for something considerably lighter.
However, in a moment of post-modern self-conscious connection-making I’ll make a connection between this great … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS Thursday 5th Week Lent (Prayer over the People): of spewing, pointless running, and the virtue of religion

Posted on 29 March 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

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Today’s “Prayer over the people”, at the end of Mass in the Ordinary Form, was originally in a truncated form in various manuscripts of the Gelasian Sacramentary. However, I eventually found it also in a longer … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: the position of a beggar

Posted on 15 January 2012 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

We have moved into the Time called “Ordinary”, by which we mean “ordered”, not “unexceptional”. In the traditional calendar of the Extraordinary Form, this is the “Time through the year”, divided into time after Epiphany and after Pentecost. This … Continue reading →

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In retribution for my sins… a terrible thought to make the blood run cold! Save me, O Lord!

Posted on 24 October 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I just had a horrible though that made my blood run cold…..
It just occurred to me what a Dantesque contrapasso it would be – for my black and horrible sins – were some bishops to engineer me being assigned to … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “In His will is our peace.”

Posted on 22 October 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

Let’s look at this week’s Collect, a prayer having a precedent in the 1962MR as the Collect for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost. It was also in the Veronese and Gelasian, ancient sacramentaries both.
COLLECT – (2002MR):
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus,
da nobis … Continue reading →

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OLDIE PODCAzT 30: Augustine on Peter and John; singing a Tridentine Requiem; St. Peter Celestine V

Posted on 19 May 2011 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

This time we hear St. Augustine of Hippo’s tr. 124 on the Gospel of John, in which he explores what Christ meant when He told Peter to follow Him but told John that He would have to stay until He … Continue reading →

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WDTPRS 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “In His will is our peace.”

Posted on 23 October 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

In Canto III of the Paradiso of the Divine Comedy the poet Dante is in the Heaven of the Moon. He encounters the soul of Piccarda. Dante queries her about the happiness of the blessed in heaven wondering if somehow, even in heaven, souls might be disappointed that they do not have a higher place in celestial realm.

In response Piccarda utters one of the greatest phrases ever penned and or recited (l. 85): Continue reading →

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SUNDAY SUPPER – 5: De re coquinaria – Coliculi elixati?

Posted on 29 July 2010 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

I am thinking in advance about Sunday Supper.
What to do?
I have been looking through Apicius’ 2nd century work De re coquinaria for some hints about how to use all the broccoli that is coming in.
Also, I have … Continue reading →

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