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WDTPRS – 18th Ordinary Sunday: cold reality, warming confidence
When the priest, alter Christus, says our prayers during Holy Mass, Christ, Head of the Body, speaks. His words have power to form us. Formed according to the mind of the Church, we Catholics then go out from Mass to … Continue reading
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WDTPRS – 3rd Sunday after Pentecost: The dangers of worldly things
In the older, traditional calendar of the Roman Rite, today is the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost. Let’s have a look at the… COLLECT (1962MR): Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum: multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam; ut, te … Continue reading
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Tagged dux, gubernator, moderator, protector, rector, testudo
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WDTPRS 15th Sunday after Pentecost: We will come home to a safe landfall!
This Sunday’s Collect for Holy Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite survived the long knives of the Consilium to live on the in the Novus Ordo editions of the Missale Romanum on Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Figure that … Continue reading
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WDTPRS 15th Sunday after Pentecost: Holy Church, Peter’s Barque
This Sunday’s Collect for Holy Mass in the Traditional Roman Rite survived the long knives of the Consilium to live on the in the Novus Ordo editions of the Missale Romanum on Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Figure that … Continue reading
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WDTPRS – 12th Ordinary Sunday: His Name – Holy Fear, Holy Consolation
This coming Sunday’s prayers is wonderful sing! It is stark and lavish and carefully balanced and quintessentially Roman. This week’s Collect, also in 1962 Missale Romanum for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Sunday after the Ascension … Continue reading
WDTPRS – 15th Sunday after Pentecost (EF): Sailing rough seas
Today’s Collect survived the long knives of the Consilium to live on the in the Novus Ordo editions of the Missale Romanum on Monday of the 3rd Week of Lent. Figure that one out. We find it in the 8th … Continue reading
WDTPRS 12th Ordinary Sunday – “His hand on the wheel of our lives”
Here is a wonderful prayer to sing! It is stark and lavish and carefully balanced and quintessentially Roman. This week’s Collect, in 1962 Missale Romanum for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Sunday … Continue reading
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Tagged gubernatio, gubernator, Holy Name, Holy Name of Jesus
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