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- Archlaic on Distressing words of Leo about the SSPX consecrations: “@wvc: No offense taken, no apology necessary! Over the years I’ve found that I really appreciate it when a colleague…”
- on Distressing words of Leo about the SSPX consecrations: “@Archlaic I apologize. No inappropriate references intended. I was earnestly unaware that there was a specific spelling for that phrase.”
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- on Distressing words of Leo about the SSPX consecrations: “A small “point of order” on language and usage: a comment above included the term “poo-poo [sic]”. It’s pretty obvious…”
- on Distressing words of Leo about the SSPX consecrations: “@thomistking I posit that the hermeneutic of continuity, as a viable hypothesis, died when Pope Benedict abdicated. It still has…”
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- on Distressing words of Leo about the SSPX consecrations: “@WVC/paulbailes: I won’t poo-poo it, but I also think you don’t have a good understanding of what heresy is. The…”
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Category Archives: WDTPRS
WDTPRS – Saturday after Ash Wednesday – Prayer over the people (1962MR)
Today’s "Prayer over the people" in the 1962 Missale Romanum is also the Postcommunion of Septuagesima Sunday. ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (1962MR): Fideles tui, Deus, per tua dona firmentur: ut éadem et percipiendo requirant, et quaerendo sine fine percipiant. Glorious. In … Read More
Posted in LENT, SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
Tagged Oratio super populum, prayer over the people
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A great Lenten observation by Fr. Blake
Great phrase from Fr. Blake of St. Mary Magdalen in Brighton: "Lent is not an orgy of Pelagian self improvement"
WDTPRS: Ash Wednesday – Prayer over the people – (1962MR & 2002MR)
I am delighted that in the 2002 Missale the tradition of the "Prayer over the people" was revived in Lent. This is an important custom. The origin of the Oratio super populum is quite complex and hard to pin down. … Read More
Posted in LENT, WDTPRS
Tagged Concilium, LENT, Oratio super populum, prayer over the people
5 Comments
5 Comments
WDTPRS: Ash Wednesday (2002MR)
The Roman Station for Ash Wednesday is Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill. The Collect in the 2002 Missale Romanum, is an ancient prayer found in the Gelasian Sacramentary for the Vigil of Pentecost. It is also among the prayers … Read More
WDTPRS: Quinquagesima – SECRET
SECRET: Haec hostia, Domine, quaesumus, emundet nostra delicta: et ad sacrificium celebrandum, subditorum tibi corpora mentesque sanctificet. This prayer was in the ancient L.S. Engolismensis. It didn’t survive the Consilium for the newer missal. Subdo is “to put, place, set, … Read More
“Consubstantial” – Who do people REALLY say that He is?
The new translation contains an alarming new threat. "Consubstantial" By clinging to the inaccurate rendering of "consubstantialem Patri" in the Creed as "one in being with the Father", liberals obfuscate the dogma of the Church that Jesus is God, that … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, SESSIUNCULA, WDTPRS
Tagged Arian, Catholic, consubstantial, consubstantialem Patri, ICEL, liberal, liturgy, translation
114 Comments
114 Comments
WDTPRS: Quinquagesima
In our traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is Quinquagesima, Latin for the symbolic “Fiftieth” day before Easter. Today is one of the pre-Lenten Sundays which prepare us for the discipline of Lent. The priest’s vestments are purple. No Alleluia. The … Read More
Revolting liberals: against the new translation
Liberals are fomenting revolt. They are revolting against Pope Benedict XVI, and the bludgeon they are using right now is the new translation. More and more we are catching whiffs of a rather rank dissent in the ranks of liberals … Read More
WDTPRS: 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Collect
For the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. COLLECT (2002MR):Deus, qui te in rectis et sinceris manere pectoribus asseris, da nobis tua gratia tales exsistere, in quibus habitare digneris. Note that the =eris endings look similar but are really quite … Read More
Archbp. Nichols slaps down The Tablet’s coverage of the new translation
From the "Hoist On His Own Petard" file: Here is something from the blog of Damian Thompson which I missed the other day… as I was traveling and my iPhone was on vacation. It seems that the Rome correspondent of … Read More
Posted in The Drill, WDTPRS
Tagged Archbp. Nichols, Missale Romanum, New Translation, Robert Mickens, The Tablet
16 Comments
16 Comments
Archlaic on Distressing words of Leo about the SSPX consecrations: “@wvc: No offense taken, no apology necessary! Over the years I’ve found that I really appreciate it when a colleague…”
