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Category Archives: WDTPRS
6 Dec – St Nicholas: SNOWFLAKE ALERT! NOT A “SAFE SPACE”!
WARNING SNOWFLAKES! This blog is NOT a Safe Space for you! This post, especially, is NOT a Safe Space for you. You know which sites you can go to to be affirmed and unchallenged by anything truly Catholic. Please go … Read More
WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday of Advent: LIONS!
“We escape neither the Enemy lion nor the glorious Lion of Judah”! Our Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged consors, Lion of Judah, lutum, St. Augustine
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WDTPRS – 31st Ordinary Sunday: We stumble mostly by choice.
The Collect for the 31st Ordinary Sunday, which was in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary, is also found in the Extraordinary Form on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost. Omnipotens et misericors Deus, de cuius munere venit, ut tibi a fidelibus tuis … Read More
WDTPRS: Christ the King (1962 Missale Romanum)
In the post-Conciliar, Novus Ordo calendar, the Solemnity of Christ the King is the last Sunday of the liturgical year, just before Advent begins. In the traditional Roman calendar it falls on the last Sunday of October. The feast was … Read More
WDTPRS – 23rd Sunday after Pentecost: SNIP!
In the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum this Sunday’s Collect prayer in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite was in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary in the month of September, a fast time. It was a bit different: Absolue, domine, quaesumus, tuorum delicta populorum, et quod mortalitatis contrahit … Read More
Posted in GO TO CONFESSION, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged absolvo, loom, shuttle, web
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WDTPRS – 18th Sunday after Pentecost: Who says mercy has to be gentle? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
The Collect for Sunday Mass this week in the Extraordinary Form wound up in the Ordinary Form Missale Romanum as the Collect for Saturday in the 4th Week of Lent. Go figure. It had an ancient source in the Gelasian … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged correction, mercy
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WDTPRS – 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: When “values” replace “virtues”
Let’s look at the Collect for the upcoming 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Deus, qui fidelium mentes unius efficis voluntatis, da populis tuis id amare quod praecipis, id desiderare quod promittis, ut, inter mundanas varietates, ibi nostra fixa sint corda, … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged values, virtues
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WDTPRS – 12th Sunday after Pentecost: FORWARD!
Today’s Collect survived the liturgico-surgical scalpels of the Bugniniites to live on in the Novus Ordo for the 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time. The prayer is ancient, and results in the Gelasian Sacramentary as well as in the Veronese Sacramentary during … Read More
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Tagged Consilium, curro, munus, offendo, offensio, servio, tria munera
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WDTPRS – 10th Sunday after Pentecost: Mercy does not mean turning a blind eye to Justice
The Collect for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost in the Extraordinary Form survived, sort of survived, to live in the post-Conciliar, reformed Missale Romanum! You can find it, somewhat wounded, for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Ordinary Form Missale … Read More
28 June – Vigil of Sts. Peter and Paul: Firm upon the Rock of Apostolic Faith
During this Fortnight For Freedom we observe (not celebrate!) the Vigil of the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. Vigils in the liturgical calendar are not just reminders that tomorrow is a feast. They are also reminders to prepare for the … Read More
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