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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS: Vigil of Easter: stir up in your Church a spirit of adoption
Our Lenten journey brings us to the greatest feast day of the whole liturgical year. We saw the priesthood and Eucharist instituted at Holy Thursday. A glimpse of Easter glory was given us with the singing of the Gloria. The … Read More
WDTPRS REVISITED: The “new” Good Friday prayer for Jews inserted into the 1962MR
Later today, I will participate in the Good Friday service in the Extraordinary Form. Thank you, Holy Father for Summorum Pontificum. During the Good Friday service, there are many intercessory prayers. One of them is for the Jews. Over the … Read More
Posted in WDTPRS
Tagged Benedict XVI, Good Friday, Prayer for the Jews, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
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31 Comments
WDTPRS Good Friday: cruor… streaming gore
Cruor has a precise meaning: “Blood (which flows from a wound), a stream of blood (more restricted in meaning than sanguis, which designates both that circulating in bodies and that shed by wounding). ORATIO: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, Domine, et famulos … Read More
WDTPRS Holy “Maundy” Thursday in the Triduum
The term “Maunday” or “Maundy” Thursday refers to Christ’s mandate (mandatum) in John 13:34 to His apostles in the service of the Church. It is also called sometimes “Shere” Thursday, perhaps from “shere” indicating “tolerance” and “remedy”, in the sense … Read More
AP Story on the Roman Station Churches
Speaking of my LENTCAzTs, which always spend a moment looking at the Roman Station church for the day…. Once upon a time I would be the celebrant for Lenten Station Masses in Rome for a confraternity dedicated to the Roman … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, LENT, LENTCAzT, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill
Tagged NAC, Nicole Winfield, North American College, Roman Stations
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6 Comments
WDTPRS – Palm Sunday: an example so perfect that it has the power to transform us
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
WDTPRS: Saturday in the 5th Week of Lent
COLLECT (2002MR) Deus, qui omnes in Christo renatos genus electum et regale sacerdotium fecisti, da nobis et velle et posse quod praecipis, ut populo ad aeternitatem vocato una sit fides cordium et pietas actionum. In the Tridentinum there is a … Read More
WDTPRS Friday 5th Week of Lent: “My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle”
COLLECT Absolve, quaesumus, Domine, tuorum delicta populorum, ut a peccatorum nexibus, quae pro nostra fragilitate contraximus, tua benignitate liberemur. In the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum this prayer was the Collect of the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost. In the ancient Veronese Sacramentary … Read More
STATIONS OF THE CROSS (PODCAzTs from Fr. Z)
Many parishes and chapels will have the Via Crucis or Stations of the Cross during Lent. What version does your parish use? I have audio projects with the Way of the Cross. Here is a reading of the Via Crucis, … Read More
APX on Detroit’s Archbishop attends mosque opening, says: “There is no place where I feel more respect, fraternity, and kindness”: “Meanwhile I’m watching a video on YouTube posted two days ago by a Detroit news station about the Archdiocese’s restructuring…”
