Category Archives: WDTPRS

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Salvation is a gift freely given by God through the merits of Christ’s Sacrifice, but salvation is not a free gift in the sense that we don’t have to do anything to obtain it. We must cooperate. Christ died “for all”. “Many” will be saved, thanks be to God. We have through Christ the free opportunity of salvation. Good works cannot merit salvation in themselves, but we are required to perform good works to merit salvation. In today’s translation I used the phrase “favorable points of merits” but never imagine God as a celestial accountant “up there” keeping books on what we do or haven’t done. Salvation is not based on a ledger’s bottom line. How God disposes all things is mysterious, though He has revealed something of His plan through the Catholic Church. Until our final judgment God alone knows what our good works merit and how they balance against our sins. In fact, the Church hazards to offer indications of only “partial” or “plenary” indulgences for works we perform. The only thing we can be sure of is that we must not become lax or presumptuous. If we want salvation, God must be appeased by our prayers, sacrifices and works, which all must be joined to Christ’s Sacrifice. At Holy Mass we join all we do and are to the Sacrifice being renewed in God’s sight by the priest. The priest raises the paten with host and then the chalice with water tinged wine. He prays: “In a spirit of humility and with a contrite heart may we be accepted by Thee, O Lord; and may this sacrifice today be of such a kind in Thy sight as to please Thee.” Place yourselves and your needs in that chalice, on that paten, to be transformed. Read More →

Here is out Collect for Saturday of the 1st Week of Advent: This is an ancient prayer found in the Rotulus of Ravenna, which is included by Mohlberg in his edition of the ancient Veronese Sacramentary. COLLECT:Deus, qui, ad liberandum … Read More →

While today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, for the sake of being complete let us look at the Collect for Friday of the 1st Week of Advent: This prayer was in the 1962 Missale Romanum and is taken … Read More →

Here is the Collect for Thursday of the 1st week of Advent. COLLECT:Excita, Domine, potentiam tuam,et magna nobis virtute succurre,ut, quod nostra peccata praepediunt,gratia tuae propitiationis acceleret.This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and other sacramentaries. It was in … Read More →

Here is the Collect for Wednesday of the 1st Week of Advent. COLLECT:Praepara, quaesumus, Domine Deus noster,corda nostra divina tua virtute,ut, veniente Christo Filio tuo,digni inveniamur aeternae vitae convivio,et cibum caelestem, ipso ministrante, percipere mereamur. This prayer was in the … Read More →

You know that the committee set up by the Holy See to ride shotgun on the English translation process is called Vox Clara. Did you know that Vox Clara is a hymn in the Liturgy of the Hours for the … Read More →

Here is the Collect for Tuesday of the 1st Week of Advent: COLLECT: Propitiare, Domine Deus, supplicationibus nostris, et tribulantibus, quaesumus, tuae concede pietatis auxilium, ut, de Filii tui venientis praesentia consolati, nullis iam polluamur contagiis vetustatis. This prayer has … Read More →

Here is the Collect for Monday of the 1st Week of Advent: COLLECT: Fac nos, quaesumus, Domine Deus noster, adventum Christi Filii tui sollicitos exspectare, ut, dum venerit pulsans, orationibus vigilantes, et in suis inveniat laudibus exsultantes. Today’s prayer had … Read More →

What Does the Prayer Really Say?  The 1st Sunday of Advent ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2004 This is the first offering of the fifth year of WDTPRS.  We begin anew.  In this series we have been examining the … Read More →