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WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday: Holy Church’s fabric, the warp and the weft

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.  But Jewish feasts also looked forward even as they … Read More

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Vigil of Ascension – old and new

Here is something I wrote a loooong time ago – 2006 – for an WDTPRS article in the print version of The Wanderer.  I had a column there for 11 years. The Wanderer… they have been faithful warriors for a … Read More

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4th Sunday after Easter (Vetus Ordo): St. James, anger, and your

Our look into the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite continues with the Epistle for the 4th Sunday after Easter which is from the Letter of the Apostle St. James. James is … Read More

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What Does The Prayer Really Say? Mass for the Election of a Supreme Pontiff – full of emotion, laden with longing,

Spolier: The Postcommunion is fantastic.  And, forgive typos.  I did this fast. This morning I said Mass with the formula of the Votive Mass Pro Eligendo Summo Pontifice… for the Election of a Supreme Pontiff.   VETUS ORDO… USUS ANTIQUIOR… It … Read More

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O sol salútis, íntimis – a look into the Lenten hymn for Lauds

On occasion I have drilled into hymns from the Roman Breviary, some of which remained in the “Novus Ordo” Liturgy of the Hours more or less the same. Today, perhaps because there is a mockingbird outside going through its repertoire, … Read More

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WDTPRS – Collect of Ember Wednesday of Lent (Vetus Ordo & Novus)

I’m sure you know that only a tiny percent of the orations of the Vetus Ordo made it into the Novus Ordo unmolested. Well… maybe that isn’t quite the right word in every case. In some cases the Novus changed … Read More

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WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday after Epiphany (N.O.: 2nd Ordinary): a “liturgical unicorn”

Media lies and political collaboration Mass psychosis formation Suppression of freedoms Snuggling with Communism Open persecution of traditional Catholics Anarchy in the streets Active promotion of homosexualism Cancel culture in the Church Prelates of pornotheology promoted I can’t think of … Read More

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WDTPRS – 13 January: Baptism of the Lord (Double Dipping)

On the SIXTH of January, Epiphany, we prayed liturgically with the three mysteries of the Lord’s life revealing Him as divine: the adoration of Jesus by the Magi, the changing water to wine at Cana, and His baptism by John in the … Read More

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WDTPRS: The orations of the Feast of the Holy Family, with some thoughts

  We are in Epiphanytide. As you know, Epiphany is from a Greek term for “manifestation”. The Feast was especially important in the ancient Eastern Churches. Traditionally it celebrated especially three manifestations of the divinity of Christ, namely, the Adoration … Read More

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WDTPRS: Collect 4th Sunday of Advent (Vetus Ordo) – “What our sins are obstructing”.

This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and other sacramentaries. It survived in edited form in the Novus Ordo on Thursday of the 1st week of Advent. Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni: et magna nobis virtute succurre; … Read More

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