Category Archives: WDTPRS

Here is my piece for The Wanderer for Pentecost Sunday: What Does the Prayer Really Say?   Pentecost Sunday (1962 Missale Romanum) The more celebrations there are of Holy Mass with the older, extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, using the … Read More →

Here is the last article I dashed off for The Wanderer about the Sunday after Ascension Thursday in the 1972 Missale Romanum: What Does the Prayer Really Say?   Sunday after Ascension Thursday (1962 Missale Romanum) During Pope Benedict’s apostolic visit … Read More →

Here is an excerpt from my WDTPRS article in the current issue of The Wanderer.  The articles are available on line through The Wanderer’s subscription website. What Does the Prayer Really Say?   “Low” Sunday – “in albis” (1962 Missale Romanum) … Read More →

In the 1962 Missale Romanum, the Extraordinary Use of the Roman Rite, this is First Passion Sunday.  In the Novus Ordo we also call Palm Sunday “Passion” Sunday.  Today is the beginning of “Passiontide”.  It is known as Iudica Sunday, … Read More →

Here is an excerpt of the article I wrote for the print version of WDTPRS about Laetare Sunday.   This year, in the print version, we are focusing on the Extraordinary Form of Mass rather than the Novus Ordo as we … Read More →

What Does the Prayer Really Say?   Sexagesima Sunday (1962 Missale Romanum) Roman station Mass: St. Paul outside the walls In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is called Sexagesima, Latin for the “Sixtieth” day before Easter.  This number is more … Read More →

The following is my article for the weekly newspaper The Wanderer. Some of you who are more recent readers of this blog may not know that for years I have written a column in The Wanderer about liturgical translations.  I … Read More →

Epiphany is from the Greek word for a divine “manifestation” or “revelation”. The Church’s liturgy for the feast, especially in its antiphons for Vespers, reflect the tradition that Epiphany was thought to be the day not only when the Magi … Read More →