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- WVC on The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons: “I know many, especially amongst the anti-SSPX traditionalist crowd, are crowing that Summorum Pontificum 2.0 is just around the corner…”
- on What constitutes “formal adherence” to schism? It is NOT merely attending Masses. There’s more to it.: “Monstrance, is it? Lefebvre believed the Novus ordo was valid. As far as I know, the SSPX officially recognizes this.…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “For a matter of such gravity I think I need to see the original Latin document before I can express…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “I can’t even pretend to understand all the facets of this dispute, but there are other tragedies for us little…”
- on The DDF’s procedures for “reconciling” both clerics and lay people from the SSPX: “The DDF is imposing a frog march. The SSPX will wait it out, hoping for better days under a future…”
- on The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons: “I am not a traditionalist. I dislike how the word tradition is often used, without distinguishing from tradition and Tradition.…”
- on The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons: “It seems to me that these bishops have gotten marching orders from on high.”
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Category Archives: ADVENT
Fr. Z’s 20 Tips For Making A Good Confession
Fr. Z’s 20 Tips For Making A Good Confession o{]:¬) We should… 1) …examine our consciences regularly and thoroughly; 2) …wait our turn in line patiently; 3) …come at the time confessions are scheduled, not a few minutes before they … Read More
REVIEW: Advent Music from the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles – WINNER
UPDATE 30 Nov 18:07 GMT: Since the beginning of November, through this, from what I can tell we have sold on Amazon: mp3 downloads – 28 CDs – 177 ____ ORIGINAL POST: Orant et laborant! I was sent a photo … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, REVIEWS, Year of Faith
Tagged ADVENT, Benedictines of Mary Queen of Apostles, D. Kansas City-St. Joseph, music, review
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WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 23 December – discerning
Here is the first prayer for the Mass of 23 December, the last full day of Advent before the Vigil of Christmas. COLLECT: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, nativitatem Filii tui secundum carnem propinquare cernentes, quaesumus, ut nobis indignis famulis tuis misericordiam … Read More
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Tagged ADVENT, Fulgentius of Ruspe
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WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 22 December – God gazes upon man, fallen into death
We are closing in on our goal. Let’s look at the Collect for 22 December in the 2002MR. The Roman Station today is the Basilica of the Twelve Apostles. In the last days before Christmas, many of our Collects have … Read More
WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 21 December – “majesty which transforms us”
Here is the Collect for 21 December. Remember, that in the Novus Ordo, the Last Days of Advent, from 17-24 December, shift in focus in the Collects to images of light and glory, moving the listener to attend to the … Read More
WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 17 December
We are in the last day of Advent. Observe this period with greater intensity of preparation, remembering especially that Advent is mostly about preparation for the Second Coming of the Lord, even as we rejoice that the Son took up … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
Tagged 17 December, ADVENT, WDTPRS
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3 Comments
WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Advent – SUPER OBLATA (2002MR): thresholds
Today’s Ordinary Form Super Oblata prayer, the prayer over the offerings during the Offertory, is found in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary amidst prayers for the month of July. SUPER OBLATA – (2002MR): Suscipe, quaesumus, Domine, munera quae de tuis offerimus … Read More
WDTPRS 24 December COLLECT (2002MR): The consolations of Thy Coming.
The Collect for today’s Mass in the 2002MR, the last of Advent, brings us to the very threshold of the humble place where the Lord was born. COLLECT (2002MR): Festina, quaesumus, ne tardaveris, Domine Iesu, ut adventus tui consolationibus subleventur, … Read More
WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 18 December
In these final days of Advent preparation, the Church prays with great intensity. It is one of the “greater feria” of Advent, the home stretch, as it were. Here is today’s COLLECT (2002MR): Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, qui sub … Read More
WDTPRS Thursday in the 3rd Week of Advent: We’re all going to die!
This Collect was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. In the 1962MR it was one of the prayers for Ember Saturday of Advent. The cutting, snipping experts of Fr. Bugnini’s Consilium decided in their wisdom to add a word, salutari, for … Read More
WVC on The Bishop of Salt Lake City reduces priests celebrating the TLM, despite conversions of Mormons: “I know many, especially amongst the anti-SSPX traditionalist crowd, are crowing that Summorum Pontificum 2.0 is just around the corner…”
