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- C.Makeron on YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS: “Intentions of and reparation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the Chaste…”
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- on 26 May 1991: 35th anniversary of ordination – It was Trinity Sunday and St. Philip Neri: “The Trinity’s love for you overflows. “On 26 May 1991, the Feast of St. Philip Neri, it was also Trinity…”
- on ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical: “Black to move and mate in 4 1) … Rxg2+ 2) Kh1 (forced) Rxh2+ 3) Kxh2 (or *1 Kg1 )…”
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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS: 5th Sunday after Pentecost – Snatched up into invisible love
This Sunday’s prayer is at least as old as the Gelasian Sacramentary. It has survived the post-Conciliar revisions to live again on the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time. The version in the Novus Ordo, however, adds a comma after ut. COLLECT – (1962 Missale Romanum): … Read More
WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday after Pentecost: “As soldiers, traveling through enemy territory…”
In the older, traditional calendar of the Roman Rite, today is the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost. Let’s have a look at the… COLLECT (1962MR): Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum: multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam; ut, te … Read More
WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday after Pentecost: Holy Love, Holy Fear, Holy NAME
It isn’t really Corpus Christi in the traditional Roman calendar, though it is often transferred to this Sunday. It is really the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost. Corpus Christi was the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. So that today’s prayers for Mass … Read More
WDTPRS: Pentecost Monday – from bondage to freedom, from anxiety to 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
WDTPRS – Pentecost Sunday: Holy Church’s warp and weft remain strong
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
WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Easter (TLM): Liturgical goop. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I am going to drag you – again – through my standard and sustained rant about liturgy, punctuated by Latin vocabulary and Neoplatonism. First, to be grown up Catholics we need a Mass for grown ups. Our Mass should give … Read More
WDTPRS – Spy Wednesday – Lent’s final Collect
The term “Spy” Wednesday is probably an allusion to Christ’s betrayal by Judas. This prayer was the Collect for this same day in the 1962 Missale Romanum. It was also in the ancient Gregorian Sacramentary in both the Hadrianum and … Read More
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WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday of Lent (2002MR): Two wings of prayer
WARNING BELOW… Roman Station: St. Lawrence outside the walls An examination of our conscience is a humbling experience. When we look to see who really are inside, we can have different reactions. Sometimes we find things which frighten and discourage … Read More
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Tagged Augustine of Hippo, LENT, Passion of the Christ
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WDTPRS: 3rd Ordinary Sunday – Which is it? “unity and peace” or “abound with good works”?
The Novus Ordo calendar has people in “Ordered” (better than “Ordinary”) Time. The Collect, or first major oration, for the 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Ordinary Form” Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, dirige actus nostros in beneplacito tuo, ut in … Read More
C.Makeron on YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS: “Intentions of and reparation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the Chaste…”
