Category Archives: WDTPRS

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 →

What Does the Prayer Really Say?  1st Sunday of Advent – Roman Station: St. Mary Major ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 These WDTPRS articles carefully explore week by week what the Latin prayers of Holy Mass really say.  … Read More →

What Does the Prayer Really Say?  1st Sunday of Advent – Station: St. Mary Major ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 Advent marks the beginning of a new liturgical year.  We prepare for the coming of the Lord with … Read More →

EXCERPT:
The first objective of our participation in the Church’s sacred rites is to praise God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and give God glory. Liturgical and Biblical Latin is rich with words and phrases which exalt and express praise of God. In fact, the concepts of “glory” and “majesty” are nearly interchangeable in this light. We, on the one hand, render up honor and glory to God in a way external to God. On the other hand, glory and majesty are also divine attributes which we in no way give Him, which He has – or rather is – in Himself by His nature. When we come into His presence, even in the contact we have with Him through the Church’s sacred mysteries, His divine attribute of splendor or glory or majesty, whatever you will, has the power to transform us. His majestic glory changes us. So, it is right to translate these lofty sounding attributions for God when we raise our voices in the Church’s official cult. Read More →