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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS Septuagesima Sunday: “What am I getting myself into?!?”
In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Septuagesima, Latin for the “Seventieth” day before Easter. Already! It is quite early this year. This number, 70, is more symbolic than arithmetical. The Sundays which follow are Sexagesima (“sixtieth”) and … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged Gregory the Great, pre-lent, Septuagesima
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8 Comments
WDTPRS: 3rd Ordinary Sunday – “abound with good works”
The Collect for the upcoming 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Ordinary Form. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, dirige actus nostros in beneplacito tuo, ut in nomine dilecti Filii tui mereamur bonis operibus abundare. This was in the 1962 Missale Romanum … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged good works, merit
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WDTPRS 2nd Ordinary Sunday: the position of a beggar
In the reformed calendar, we have moved into the Time called “Ordinary”, by which we mean “ordered”, not “unexceptional”. In the traditional calendar of the Extraordinary Form, this is the “Time through the year”, divided into time after Epiphany and after … Read More
WDTPRS Baptism of the Lord – He must increase, we must decrease
On the SIXTH of January, Epiphany, we prayed liturgically with the three mysteries of the Lord’s life revealing Him as divine: the adoration of Jesus by the Magi, the changing water to wine at Cana, and His baptism by John in the … Read More
WDTPRS – Epiphany (Sunday) 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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6 Comments
“They were the Church’s first blossoms” – the Holy Innocents
Today is Childermas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child, By by, lully lullay, thou little tiny child, By by, lully lullay. O sisters too, How may we do For to preserve this day This … Read More
WDTPRS – Holy Family Sunday: It is good to pray that God might be appeased.
In the Novus Ordo, or Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, on Sunday after Christmas we focus on the Holy Family. Our context is Octave of the Nativity of the Lord. An “octave” is a period of eight days when … Read More
Posted in "But Father! But Father!", One Man & One Woman, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged family, Holy Family
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3 Comments
WDTPRS 4th Sunday of Advent (2002MR): Seeing is believing.
The 4th Sunday’s Collect 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. Therefore, on that feast … Read More
Posted in ADVENT, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged ADVENT, Angelus, Crede ut intellegas, Magnificat, Rorate, St. Augustine of Hippo
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4 Comments
WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Advent: “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”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century. Omnipotens et … Read More
WDTPRS – Christ the King (2002MR): The world will be consumed in fire
We approach the last Sunday of the liturgical year. In the post-Conciliar calendar of the Roman Church this is the Solemnity of Christ the King. In the older calendar, this is celebrated (with a rather different meaning!) at the end … Read More
Benedict Joseph on Vatican official “fed” Pachamama during ritual while in Peru: “We have arrived at that moment when we can always anticipate to be scandalized, one way or another, by the…”
