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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 12th Ordinary Sunday: His Name – Holy Fear, Holy Consolation
This coming Sunday’s prayers is wonderful sing! It is stark and lavish and carefully balanced and quintessentially Roman. This week’s Collect, also in 1962 Missale Romanum for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Sunday after the Ascension … Read More
Novus Ordo news: 22 July is now the Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
The Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, headed by the great Robert Card. Sarah, has issued a decree making – for the Novus Ordo, mind you – what was the Memorial of St. Mary Magdalene into a … Read More
WDTPRS – Ascension COLLECT (1962MR): The hope that informs our trials in this life
We Catholics know that what was not assumed, was not redeemed (St. Gregory of Nazianzus). Our humanity, body and soul, was taken by the Son into an unbreakable bond with His divinity. When Christ rose from the tomb, our humanity … Read More
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WDTPRS Ascension – Our humanity, “raised beyond the heights of archangels”
On my planet, this coming Sunday is the 7th Sunday after Easter, Ascension Thursday having fallen on Thursday. In most places Ascension Thursday has been transferred to Sunday, but not with malice. The notion the bishops had was to expose … Read More
WDTPRS – 6th Sunday of Easter (OF): We are risen, rising, and about to rise all at the same time
Here is this week’s Collect, for the 6th Sunday of Easter in the Ordinary Form: Fac nos, omnipotens Deus, hos laetitiae dies, quos in honorem Domini resurgentis exsequimur, affectu sedulo celebrare, ut quod recordatione percurrimus semper in opere teneamus. This … Read More
WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Easter (1962MR): The smoke of Satan
This is the 4th Sunday after Easter according to the older, traditional Roman calendar. Today’s Collect survived the slash and hack editors of the Novus Ordo. You can find it in the Novus Ordo for the 21st Sunday of Ordinary … Read More
WDTPRS – 5th Sunday of Easter (2002MR): Eternity and Sempiternity – not the same
Sunday’s Collect for the Ordinary Form was not in a previous edition of the Roman Missal. A precedent is found in the Sacramentarium Bergomense. COLLECT: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, semper in nobis paschale perfice sacramentum ut, quos sacro baptismate dignatus es … Read More
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WDTPRS: Low Sunday “in albis”, Quasimodo Sunday
In the post-Conciliar calendar this is the “Second Sunday of Easter.” It is sometimes called “Thomas Sunday” because of the Gospel reading about the doubting Apostle. It is also famously called “Quasimodo Sunday” for the first word of the opening … Read More
WDTPRS Easter Sunday: “Be sprigs!”
We observed the Sacred Triduum: the priesthood was celebrated, the Eucharistic Christ was reposed and the altar stripped, the Passion was sung and the Cross was kissed. Our liturgical death was complete. Then in the evening, in some places even … Read More
WDTPRS: Palm Sunday – The Transforming Example
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. The Sacred Triduum (triduum from tres dies – “three day space”) were once days of obligation when people were freed from servile work so that they could attend the liturgies, once celebrated … Read More
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Tagged consortium, documentum, exemplum, Holy Week, liturgy, Palm Sunday, prayer, translation, Triduum, worship
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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! ;)”
