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Saturday, February 20, 2021

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

III class · Violet

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Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 20, 2010

WDTPRS – Saturday after Ash Wednesday – Prayer over the people (1962MR)

ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (1962MR): Fideles tui, Deus, per tua dona firmentur: ut éadem et percipiendo requirant, et quaerendo sine fine percipiant. Glorious.

Today’s "Prayer over the people" in the 1962 Missale Romanum is also the Postcommunion of Septuagesima Sunday. In an ancient variation we find per[pe]tua, turning “by means of your…” into “perpetual”. That éadem (neuter plural to go with dona, “gifts”) is the object of both of the subjunctive verbs which live in another et…et construction. Requiro means “to seek or…

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From Quinquagesima Sunday

On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.

CollectFeb 15, 2026

WDTPRS – Quinquagesima Sunday: Prepare for BATTLE!

Preces nostras, quaesumus, Domine, clementer exaudi: atque, a peccatorum vinculis absolutos, ab omni nos adversitate custodi.
Literal rendering

We beseech You, O Lord, graciously attend to our prayers: and, having been loosed from the fetters of sins, guard us from every adversity.

In our traditional Roman calendar, Sunday is Quinquagesima, Latin for the symbolic “Fiftieth” day before Easter. This is one of the pre-Lenten Sundays which prepare us for the discipline of Lent. The priest’s vestments are purple. No Gloria. No Alleluia. The prayers and readings for the pre-Lenten Sundays were compiled by St. Gregory the Great (+604).

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Also posted: Feb 10, 2024 · Feb 19, 2023 · Feb 13, 2010 · Feb 21, 2009 · Feb 3, 2008

Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 14, 2010

WDTPRS: Quinquagesima – SECRET

Haec hostia, Domine, quaesumus, emundet nostra delicta: et ad sacrificium celebrandum, subditorum tibi corpora mentesque sanctificet.
Literal rendering

O Lord, may this sacrificial offering cleanse away our sins, and may it sanctify the bodies and minds of those subject to You unto the Sacrifice now to be celebrated. Human beings are both body and soul. The wounds to our human nature from the Fall of our First Parents affected us both spiritually and physically. The whole human person needs healing. Therefore, the Word took up all of our human nature, perfect human body and soul, so that the whole of man could be redeemed. At Mass there is also an inward component and an outward physical expression. Both must be active, each in their own proper manner and moment. The key in both cases is that we who…

This prayer was in the ancient L.S. Engolismensis. It didn’t survive the Consilium for the newer missal. Subdo is “to put, place, set, or lay under; to bring under, subject, subdue”. After Mary and Joseph found the young Jesus in the Temple, Our Lord went with them and was “subject” them (Luke 2:51). Subdo is used to describe also the…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

feria · Violet · Lent · Year B

Readings at USCCB ↗

Commentary for this day

CollectMar 12, 2011

WDTPRS – Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, infirmitatem nostram propitius respice, atque ad protegendum nos dexteram tuae maiestatis extende.

Today’s Collect was in the ancient Veronese and Gelasian Sacramentaries, and so it represents the best of the liturgical tradition of the early Church in Rome, formed out of the cultural, intellectual, spiritual milieu of the era. There is an elegance to these ancient prayers which hard to capture in English without resorting to nearly archaic forms. However, archaic forms…

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Also posted: Mar 4, 2006

CollectFeb 20, 2010

WDTPRS – Saturday after Ash Wednesday – Prayer over the people (2002MR)

ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (2002MR): Adesto, Domine, benignus populo tuo, qui sacra mysteria contigerit, ut nullis periculis affligatur, qui in te protectorem confidit.
Literal rendering

O Lord, kindly be present to Your people, who have touched upon/partaken of the sacred mysteries, so that it (they), who relies on You as protector, may be afflicted by no dangers.

A great new feature of the 2002 Missale Romanum in Latin is that for Lent the "Prayer over the people" or Oratio super populum has been revived as an option. This is a step in the right direction, to be sure. Let’s have a look at today’s:

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Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 24, 2007

Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Super Oblata

Suscipe, quaesumus, Domine, sacrificium placationis et laudis, et praesta, ut, huius operatione mundati, beneplacitum tibi nostrae mentis offeramus affectum.
Literal rendering

Accept, we entreat You, O Lord, the sacrifice of appeasment and of praise, and grant, that cleansed by this grace filled action, we may offer the well-pleasing disposition of our soul.

We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s This prayer had its forerunner in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for feria vii (Saturday) in Quinquagesima. This reminds is that this week was in ancient time before the beginning of Lent which really began on Sunday. The prayer was also in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum for Saturday…

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From 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time

On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.

CollectFeb 11, 2024

WDTPRS – 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: “kissing the porch”

Deus, qui te in rectis et sinceris manere pectoribus asseris, da nobis tua gratia tales exsistere, in quibus habitare digneris.
Literal rendering

O God, who declared that You remain in upright and pure hearts, grant us to manifest ourselves to be, by Your grace, the sort of people in whom You deign to abide.

For this Ordinary Form calendar Sunday, we have reached the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. In the Extraordinary Form this Sunday is the sober but helpful, purple-draped pre-Lenten Quinquagesima Sunday. The calendar is helping those who follow the TLM to prepare for a fruitful Lent. The Gloria is already gone and the Alleluia has been buried until the resurrection.

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Also posted: Feb 10, 2017 · Feb 12, 2011 · Feb 12, 2010 · Feb 12, 2006

Post CommunionFeb 12, 2006

6th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post Communion

Caelestibus, Domine, pasti deliciis, quaesumus, ut semper eadem, per quae veraciter vivimus, appetamus.
Literal rendering

O Lord, having been fed with heavenly delicacies, we entreat you, that we may always strive earnestly for these same things, by which we are truly alive.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 6th Sunday in of Ordinary Time A Monsignor Moment: In a letter of 23 September 2002 which I received last week, Msgr. ML of Saskatchewan writes: “I endorse every prayerful kind and encouraging written intervention to those entrusted with the arduous task of providing a true English translation of the Missale Romanum.” Thank you,…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere