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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “kissing the porch”
For this Ordinary Form calendar Sunday, we have reached the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. In the Extraordinary Form this Sunday is the purple-draped, pre-Lent Septuagesima Sunday (Alleluia Buh-bye!). In the Ordinary Form we have a Collect based on a … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged kiss of peace, sign of peace, St. John Chrysostom
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WDTPRS – 5th Ordinary Sunday: A clear and certain trumpet
This Sunday’s Collect is in the pre-Conciliar Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany. Our prayer presents imagery of a family and, on the other hand, a group of dutiful soldiers. Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, continua pietate custodi, ut, quae … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged CCC 733, Church Militant, custodio, disciplina, innitor, munio, pietas
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A trip down memory lane: liturgical translations again under attack by liberals
Is our collective memory getting shorter? Over at Jesuit run America Magazine there is an opinion piece… … wait… Jesuit-run America… isn’t that where, under the guidance of Thomas Reese, SJ… America published blasphemous images of Our Lady covered in latex? … Read More
WDTPRS – Conversion of St. Paul: Comparison 1962MR & 2002MR Collects
In honor of the Apostle to the Gentiles let us make a rapid comparison of the Collects for today’s feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. We’ll look first at the 1962 Missale Romanum and then the 2002 edition. The … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Conversion of St. Paul, exemplum, gradior
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“Learn to love as I love thee.”
Real Epiphany was on 6 January. In the traditional calendar, however, we are in the Season of Epiphany. Hence, I’ll go on talking about Epiphany for a while. At one of the blogs I now eagerly follow, A Clerk of Oxford, I … Read More
WDTPRS – Epiphany Collect: transformed by the beauty of Your sublime glory
In the Novus Ordo calendar Epiphany (which is supposed to be 12 days after Christmas – the reason it is called “Twelfth Night”) is sometimes moved to the Sunday. I suppose that they reasoned that more people would celebrate the important … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged church, Epiphany, glory, heaven, liturgy, manifestation, mystery
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WDTPRS – 24 December – Novus Ordo: The consolations of Thy Coming
The Collect for today’s Mass in the Novus Ordo, the last of Advent, stares at 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, qui … Read More
Posted in Christmas and Epiphany, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Christmas Eve
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WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Advent (TLM): Mass is a glimpse of heaven
We are drawing close, though because Christmas falls on Sunday we still have a week to go. COLLECT (1962MR): Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni: et magna nobis virtute succurre; ut, per auxilium gratiae tuae, quod nostra peccata praepediunt, … Read More
WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Advent (O.F.): Seeing really is believing
The 4th Sunday’s Collect in the Novus Ordo is also the Post Communion for the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962MR). The Annunciation was the moment of the Incarnation of our Lord. … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged ADVENT, Angelus, Crede ut intellegas, Incarnation, Magnificat, Rorate, St. Augustine of Hippo
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WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday of Advent: The childlike dash towards the long-desired thing
We are coming to the 3rd Sunday of Advent, also nicknamed Gaudete…. the plural imperative of gaudeo, “Rejoice!”, the first word of the Introit chant. This Sunday there is a relaxation of the penitential aspect of Advent, just Laetare Sunday does … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged ADVENT, Gaudete Sunday, rosacea, rose
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DavidGeorge on Pentecost Thursday: No Joy in Mudville: “Many reasons to avoid LA but now I know to add snakes and vampires! ;)”
