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Category Archives: WDTPRS
New ICEL translation has been approved
To the joy of most and the dismay of a few, it looks as if the new ICEL translation has been approved, though it won’t be available for a while yet. The Vox Clara commission, formed as a liaison between … Read More
Marty Haugen, protestant, “composer”, priestess champ, to lead diocesan translation workshop
From the blog Ten Reasons I found this: Were the St. Louis Jesuits unavailable? You wouldn’t think that Marty Haugen, the Protestant composer of so much of the liturgical music that’s come to symbolize "what went wrong" after the Council, … Read More
WDTPRS – Vigil of Easter – HAPPY EASTER!
Our forty day Lenten journey has brought us to the ultimate festal day of the whole liturgical year. Hopefully we have all participated in the Sacred Triduum ceremonies of Thursday and Friday. We saw the priesthood and Eucharist instituted at … Read More
WDTPRS – Tuesday of Holy Week – COLLECT
COLLECT (2002MR): Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis ita dominicae passionis sacramenta peragere, ut indulgentiam percipere mereamur. This prayer was in the 1962MR on Tuesday of Holy Week. It was in the Hadrianum and Paduenese of the ancient Gregorian Sacramentary for … Read More
WDTPRS – Palm Sunday (2002MR)
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Palm Sunday – Station: St. John Lateran 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 … Read More
WDTPRS POLL! Your progress through Lent: honest assessment
Passiontide is around the corner. How are you doing with your Lent? Your voting is entirely anonymous and, to my knowledge, cannot be traced by me or followed back. {democracy:47} Feel free to describe your experience, share or add tips, … Read More
WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR)
During Lent, I have been including the Oratio super populum now restored in the 2002MR. The priest says this, or will when he uses Latin, after the Post communio. It should be in a future English translation. ORATIO SUPER POPULUM … Read More
STATIONS OF THE CROSS (audio 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? Let’s get some titles/versions/authors and we can have a poll later on. I have audio projects with the … Read More
WDTPRS – Friday 3rd Week of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR)
A great new feature of the 2002 Missale Romanum in Latin is that for Lent the "Prayer over the people" or Oratio super populum has been revived as an option. Priests can use this prayer NOW at the end of … Read More
WDTPRS – Wednesday 3rd Week of Lent – Prayer over the people (2002MR)
A great new feature of the 2002 Missale Romanum in Latin is that for Lent the "Prayer over the people" or Oratio super populum has been revived as an option. Priests can use this prayer NOW at the end of … Read More
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