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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS – Transfiguration: in the Son our own “sonship” more fully revealed
Today is the titular feast of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Cathedral of Rome. [Well… at least it was the titular feast. A commentator below informs us that in 1966 it was switched to the Ascension. Odd.] “But … Read More
WDTPRS – The Doxology, Great Amen, and YOU: The mighty voice of the one True Priest
Here is my latest hecatomb for The Wanderer to which you may subscribe digitally. I worked my way through an examination of the new, corrected translation of the Order of Mass, including the Roman Canon. Then I returned to look … Read More
Posted in New Evangelization, Non Nobis and Te Deum, Our Catholic Identity, Patristiblogging, The Drill, WDTPRS
Tagged 3rd Eucharistic Prayer, Amen, apologetics, apologia, Didache, Dolbeau 26, doxology, Jerome Gassner, mediator, Roman Canon, s. 198, St. Augustine, St. Justin Martyr, The Wanderer
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7 Comments
Non-Catholic, progressive, ecumenical site hits one out of the park about the new translation
A long-time reader alerted me to an interesting article on the non-Catholic site The Christian Century (“a progressive, ecumenical magazine based in Chicago”). The writer, Carol Zaleski, professor of world religions at Smith College in Northampton, MA, makes some comments … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Our Catholic Identity, WDTPRS
Tagged Carol Zaleski, New Translation, The Christian Century
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10 Comments
More about the new, corrected version of the Confiteor
Elsewhere I answered a question about the new, corrected ICEL version of the Confiteor. I said I would post something more about the Confiteor. Liberals will hate this new version, by the way. We have already seen that (here). Here … Read More
Posted in WDTPRS
Tagged Confiteor, Joseph Ratrzinger, mea culpa, Romano Guardini, Spirit of the Liturgy, St. Augustine of Hippo
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15 Comments
QUAERITUR: New translation of Confiteor omitted from Mass today.
From a reader: Dear Fr Z, I’ve just been to Mass, using the new translation for the first time. [hmmm] I was looking forward to the Confiteor, but our priest left it out. Was that because it was a weekday? … Read More
Old book for confessors: examination of conscience in different languages
We recently saw from the Congregation for Clergy a guide for confessors along with an examination of conscience for the confessor himself. While sorting through some things I ran across a fascinating old confessional aid for priests. It is an … Read More
First Things meets WDTPRS
I read with interest a piece on the “On The Square” blog of First Things. It is by Richard Upsher Smith, Jr., Professor of Classics and Chairman of the Department of Classics at Franciscan University of Steubenville. The Excellence of … Read More
Booz and the Reapers are also with you!
More than once I have written about the origin and meaning of Dominus vobiscum and the response Et cum spiritu tuo and the new, corrected translation. In my explanations I have written about a Biblical locus for consideration of … Read More
QUAERITUR: “our sacrifice” and “my sacrifice and yours”
From a reader, edited: I sometimes wonder about the part of the prayer of the priest at Mass which goes “Pray, Brethren, that our sacrifice will be acceptable to the Lord our God.” And to which the people respond (I … Read More
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
Posted in WDTPRS
Tagged devotion, Lewis & Short Dictionary, Louis Bourdaloue, St. Thomas Aquinas
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Greg Hlatky on Some notes for your Sunday Mass in the Vetus and the Novus Ordo: ““By pursuing perfection we will achieve excellence.” – Vince Lombardi”
