Category Archives: WDTPRS

Here is a link to my WDTPRS article on the Vigil of Epiphany. A snip: … in the 2002 editio typica of the Missale Romanum there is now a new Vigil Mass with its own texts. There was no Vigil … Read More →

What Does the Prayer Really Say? Christmas Day – Roman Station: 1st and 3rd Masses – Basilica of St. Mary Major, 2nd Mass – St. Anastasia ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 The Solemnity of the Nativity of the … Read More →

We are now very close. Today’s Collect is the Post-communion of the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) in the 1962MR. Most of you who recite the Angelus know this prayer.  This time we also get the WDTPRS version since … Read More →

Here is the Collect for 21 December. COLLECT: Preces populi tui, quaesumus, Domine, clementer exaudi, ut, qui de Unigeniti tui in nostra carne adventu laetantur, cum venerit in sua maiestate, aeternae vitae praemium consequantur. This prayer is pretty much identical … Read More →

Here is the Collect for 19 December in the 2002MR, duing this period of intense preparation before Christmas: COLLECT: Deus, qui splendorem gloriae tuae per sacrae Virginis partum mundo dignatus es revelare, tribue, quaesumus, ut tantae incarnationis mysterium et fidei … Read More →

In these final days of Advent preparation, the Church prays with great intensity.  Here is today’s COLLECT: Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, qui sub peccati iugo ex vetusta servitute deprimimur, expectata Unigeniti tui nova nativitate liberemur. This was in the … Read More →

Let’s have a look at the prayers for Holy Mass with the 2002 Missale Romanum.  In the print version of the WDTPRS in The Wanderer we are examining the prayers for the 1962 Missale. For those of you who want … Read More →

Here is the Collect for Saturday of the 2nd Week of Advent. This prayer has its roots in Rotulus 19 published with the Veronese Sacramentary.  It is also in Gelasian Sacramentary.  It was not in any edition of the Missale … Read More →

Here is the Collect for the 2nd Week of Advent. This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary but not in any edition of the Missale Romanum before the Novus Ordo. COLLECT: Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, plebi tuae adventum Unigeniti … Read More →

We continue our Advent project. Here is the Collect for Thursday of the 2nd Week of Advent COLLECT: Excita, Domine, corda nostra ad praeparandas Unigeniti tui vias, ut, per eius adventum, purificatis tibi mentibus servire mereamur. This was in the … Read More →