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- BeatifyStickler on REMINDER – 19 August – St. John Eudes on BAD PRIESTS: “a most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world”: “In our family rosary, we pray for all the Priests who have been in our lives. I see how hard…”
- on REMINDER – 19 August – St. John Eudes on BAD PRIESTS: “a most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world”: “Fr. Z, you’re in my daily prayers.”
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- on Vatican official “fed” Pachamama during ritual while in Peru: “Sorry, not sorry, for NOT praying for these wankers. Sun Tsu, Art of War…when your enemies are self destructing, leave…”
- on Vatican official “fed” Pachamama during ritual while in Peru: “Despite the uproar over Pachamama during the late pope’s reign this sacrilege happens again. How? What are these clerics thinking?…”
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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Vicissitudes and confusion, fog of the world, smoke of Satan, coming precisely whence there ought to be coming clarity.
Let’s have a look in advance of the Collect for Sunday in the Novus Ordo, which I assume most of you attend (perforce or not). COLLECT – (2002MR): Deus, qui fidelium mentes unius efficis voluntatis, da populis tuis id amare … Read More
WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday: Live in love now to have Love Himself later
The Collect for the 20th Ordinary Sunday, found also in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary, is in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum, … Read More
WDTPRS – 11th Sunday after Pentecost: healthy “pessimism”
With a minor variation this week’s Collect was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. It survived the cut to live on in the Novus Ordo Missale Romanum as the Collect on the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui … Read More
WDTPRS – 19th Ordinary Sunday: Father God, not Stranger God
The Collect for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time was not in previous editions Missale Romanum before the 1970 Novus Ordo. It has roots in the 9th century Sacramentary of Bergamo and thus is ancient text. Note that for the 2002 … Read More
WDTPRS – 9th Sunday after Pentecost: O God, ever distant, ever near
This week’s Collect, which historically was in the 8th century Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis, was also the prayer over the people, or Super populum, in the 1962MR for Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent. It was not, I believe, in the 1970MR … Read More
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WDTPRS – 8th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): Be all that you can be!
Today’s Collect – for Mass and the Office on this 8th Sunday after Pentecost – is found in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical tailors with their scissors and thread to … Read More
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WDTPRS – 16th (Novus Ordo) Sunday in Ordinary Time:
We have been cheated of the beauty of our Catholic worship in Latin, which is our common patrimony. In fact, the swindle is far deeper. People have been denied the opportunity to learn Latin, which pretty much every more or … Read More
1 July – Most Precious Blood and the Feasts of St. Junipero Serra and St. Aaron, brother of Moses
A thought for you: Though we all may be different in height or sex or shape of eye and color of skin, we all bleed the same red Our Savior bled for our sins. Our unifying human blood, divinely infused, … Read More
WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday after Pentecost: “As soldiers, traveling through enemy territory…” (NO and VO comparison)
In the older, traditional calendar of the Roman Rite, today is the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost. This is a yummy oration. Let’s have a taste. COLLECT (1962MR): Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum: multiplica super nos … Read More
WDTPRS – Pentecost Monday: from bondage, freedom – from anxiety, peace
Today is Pentecost Monday, during the Octave of Pentecost. It is also called Whit Monday, a reference to the white garments of the newly baptized. We observe the Octave in the Traditional Roman calendar. It was tragically, ridiculously, foolishly eliminated … Read More
BeatifyStickler on REMINDER – 19 August – St. John Eudes on BAD PRIESTS: “a most evident mark of God’s anger and the most terrible castigation He can inflict upon the world”: “In our family rosary, we pray for all the Priests who have been in our lives. I see how hard…”
