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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS – 13th Sunday after Pentecost: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace!”
Today’s prayer survived the redactors to live on in the Novus Ordo as the Collect for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time. It is an ancient prayer, found in the Veronese and the Gelasian Sacramentary. COLLECT (1962MR): Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged dante, Divine Comedy, eternity, Josef Pieper, Piccarda, sempiternity
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6 Comments
WDTPRS 8th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): Being even more ourselves.
In the Extraordinary Form, Sunday’s Collect is from the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical tailors with their scissors and thread to live on in the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum on Thursday of the 1st week of Lent. However, there is … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged dante, Epimenides of Knossos, St. Augustine
3 Comments
3 Comments
WDTPRS: 7th Sunday after Pentecost – acts of faith
In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Collect survived the cutting and pasting experts of the Consilium to live on as the Collect for the 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time. COLLECT (1962MR): Deus, … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Act of Faith, dispositio, Faith, fallo, fides
10 Comments
10 Comments
WDTPRS 12th Ordinary Sunday – “His hand on the wheel of our lives”
Here is a wonderful prayer to sing! It is stark and lavish and carefully balanced and quintessentially Roman. This week’s Collect, in 1962 Missale Romanum for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Sunday … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged gubernatio, gubernator, Holy Name, Holy Name of Jesus
1 Comment
1 Comment
WDTPRS 4th Sunday after Pentecost (1962MR): Our great Captain
Today’s prayer is found in ancient sacramentaries, such as the Veronese and the “Hadrian” version of the Gregorian, and the so-called Gelasian. It is unchanged in the “Tridentine” form of the Missale Romanum as my trusty copy of the 1570MR … Read More
WDTPRS: Corpus Christi – COLLECT (2002MR)
In 1246, Robert of Thourotte, Bishop of Liège, Belgium, had instituted in his diocese the feast now known as Corpus Christi at the request of an Augustinian nun Juliana of Cornillon, who composed an office for it. In 1264, Pope … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged Corpus Christi
15 Comments
15 Comments
WDTPRS: Pentecost Tuesday – the protection of our hearts
According to the older, traditional Roman calendar, today is Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost. The octave of Pentecost was lamentably killed off by the cutters and snippers of the Consilium in the post-Conciliar reform of the Roman liturgy. And … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged adsum, Luxembourg, Octave, Octave of Pentecost, Paul VI, Pentecost, St. Anastasia, St. Willibrord
3 Comments
3 Comments
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. I’m sure the notion the bishops had was … Read More
WDTPRS Secret and Prayer over Offerings – the SAME in both Novus Ordo and TLM!
Today I had a text from the Great Roman Fabrizio™ about the fact that the word commercium is in the Secret for today’s Mass in the Extraordinary Form. So, let’s drill into that wonderful prayer…. and be sure to get the … Read More
WDTPRS “Low” Sunday, “Mercy” Sunday, “Quasimodo” Sunday, Sunday “in albis”
This Sunday has many nicknames. In the post-Conciliar calendar it is the “Second Sunday of Easter (or of Divine Mercy)”. It is also called “Thomas Sunday” (because of the Gospel reading about the doubting Apostle), and “Quasimodo Sunday” (from the … Read More
Posted in EASTER, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Divine Mercy Sunday, Dominica in albis, Low Sunday, Quasimodo Sunday
12 Comments
12 Comments
David on ROME 26/5– Day 64: If you are not over the target, they don’t shoot at you.: “Father, as the quondam ghostwriter of Bishop McButterpants’ diary, as you review the latest encyclical, I thought you might enjoy…”
