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Category Archives: WDTPRS
1 November 2023 – All Saints – Holy Day of Obligation: We are all in this together.
While some bishop might obliterate the obligation by transferring it to a Sunday (what’s the point of that?), as All Saints falls on a Wednesday this year, it is a Holy Day of Obligation. The Church can determine our obligations … Read More
WDTPRS – 30th Ordinary Sunday: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace… In His will is our peace.”
In the Novus Ordo this Sunday it is the 30th Sunday of what an old friend of mine (rest in peace) called “Greater Meatloaf Season”. Let’s look at upcoming Sunday’s Novus Ordo Collect. This prayer has a precedent in the … Read More
WDTPRS – 29th Ordinary Sunday (N.O.): It’s about the children.
At the “Walking Together about Walking Togetherity” (aka “W-T-F” – explained HERE) and in papal interviews there is increasing talk about blessing same-sex couples, which would effectively a betrayal of God who made man male and female. God made us … Read More
Thoughts about “walking together about walking togetherity” sparked by a prayer in the Traditional Latin Mass
Today is the Feast of St. John Leonardi whose remains are at not too distant S.M. in Campitelli. St. John is the patron of pharmacists. He was one and had a shop before priesthood if memory does not fail. He … Read More
WDTPRS – Collect for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time (Novus Ordo): “the bowels of compassion”
Many of you could care less about the Novus Ordo prayers. But remember, when the English translation of the Novus Ordo improved, it was like the old adage that a rising tide raises all boats. All boats. Many of our … Read More
WDTPRS – 16th Sunday after Pentecost: We need grace so as not to fail in the vocations God entrusts to us
This Sunday’s dense Collect survived the scissors and paste-pots of the Consilium during the 1960’s and lived on in the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum as the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time. This prayer, used for centuries, is in the Sacramentarium Hadrianum, … Read More
WDTPRS – 14th Sunday after Pentecost: the finger
This Sunday’s Collect for the Extraordinary Form survived the snipping and pasting of the Consilium and the late Annibale Bugnini’s liturgical experts to be used in the Ordinary Form on Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent. Figure that one … Read More
WDTPRS – 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Vicissitudes and confusion, fog of the world, smoke of Satan, coming precisely whence there ought to be coming clarity.
Let’s have a look in advance of the Collect for Sunday in the Novus Ordo, which I assume most of you attend (perforce or not). COLLECT – (2002MR): Deus, qui fidelium mentes unius efficis voluntatis, da populis tuis id amare … Read More
WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday: Live in love now to have Love Himself later
The Collect for the 20th Ordinary Sunday, found also in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary, is in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum, … Read More
WDTPRS – 11th Sunday after Pentecost: healthy “pessimism”
With a minor variation this week’s Collect was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. It survived the cut to live on in the Novus Ordo Missale Romanum as the Collect on the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui … Read More
andia on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 9th Sunday after Pentecost (N.O.: 17th Ordinary): “Seek God above all else”
