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Category Archives: WDTPRS
Who’s guarding the guards?
You all know about the minor victory for Truth obtained by the correction of an error in the official English version of Sacramentum caritatis. An error occurring in the English translation at the time of the public release of the … Read More
New English translation nearing completion?
The whole reason the WDTPRS project came into being in the first place was to act as a foil to the foul old lame-duck ICEL translations of the Mass. Along the way, what was a humble occasional project in the … Read More
Another translation problem in the Exhortation and some sharp comments
The Exhortation has a paragraph concerning Catholic politicians, bishops, and the Eucharist. Here is the English "translation" of the paragraph (emphasis mine – I removed footnote numbers): Eucharistic consistency 83. Here it is important to consider what the Synod Fathers … Read More
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Bad translation in English version of Exhortation about Latin
For a long time I have warned people about bad English translations of papal documents. There are methodological problems in that the documents are no longer composed in Latin. The Latin text, which is the official text, is itself a … Read More
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Friday in the 2nd Week of Lent
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s SUPER OBLATA:Miseratio tua, Deus, ad haec peragenda mysteria,famulos tuos, quaesumus, et praeveniat competenter,et devota conversatione perducat.Per… prae… per. Interesting. con-petens… con-vers… Miseratio… devotio. This all should get … Read More
Wednesday in the 2nd Week of Lent
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’sSUPER OBLATA:Hostias, Domine, quas tibi offerimus, propitius intuere,et, per haec sancta commercia,vincula peccatorum nostrorum absolve.Commercium is a loaded word. It means "exchange". It has a theological, not a … Read More
Tuesday in the 2nd Week of Lent
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’sSUPER OBLATA:Sanctificationem tuam nobis, Domine,his mysteriis operare placatus,quae nos et a vitiis terrenis emundet,et ad caelestia dona perducat.LITERAL VERSION:Having been appeased, O Lord, by these sacramental mysterieswork within … Read More
Monday in the 2nd Week of Lent
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s SUPER OBLATA:Preces nostras, Domine, propitiatus admitte,et a terrenis effice illecebris liberatos,quos caelestibus tribuis servire mysteriis.This prayer was not in a previous edition of the Missale Romanum, but … Read More
Saturday in the 1st Week of Lent
We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s SUPER OBLATA:Haec quae nos reparent, quaesumus, Domine, beata mysteriasuo nos munere dignos efficiant.This was not in any edition of the Missale Romanum before the post-Conciliar reforms. It … Read More
1st Sunday of Lent
HEBDOMADA PRIMA IN QUADRAGESIMA – 1st WEEK OF LENT 5) Dominica I in Quadragesima – 1st Sunday of Lent a) Collect (article from 2001) b) Super oblata (article from 2002) c) Post Communion (article from 2003) d) Collect (article from … Read More
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