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Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Titus, Bishop and Confessor

III class · White

Commemoration of St. Dorothy, Virgin and Martyr

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From Septuagesima Sunday

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

CollectJan 31, 2026

WDTPRS: Septuagesima Sunday

Preces populi tui, quaesumus, Domine, clementer exaudi: ut, qui iuste pro peccatis nostris affligimur, pro tui nominis gloria misericorditer liberemur.
Literal rendering

We beseech You, O Lord, graciously to hark to the prayers of Your people: so that we who for our sins are justly afflicted, may for the glory of Your Name mercifully be freed.

The Collect of the Mass for Septuagesima Sunday is bracing. It has a different feel than many of our Sunday orations. Bl. Ildefonso Schuster observes, that this prayer St. Gregory, son of a senator and at 30 years of age Prefect of Rome, was the first Pope from a monastic background. It was a time of upheaval, plague and famine.…

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Also posted: Jan 28, 2024 · Feb 4, 2023 · Feb 11, 2017 · Jan 23, 2016 · Feb 7, 2009 · Jan 20, 2008

CollectFeb 20, 2011

WDTPRS: Septuagesima

Fideles tui, Deus, per tua dona firmentur: ut éadem et percipiendo requirant, et quaerendo sine fine percipiant. Glorious.
Literal rendering

We beseech You, O Lord, graciously to hark to the prayers of Your people: so that we who are justly afflicted for our sins, may mercifully be freed for the glory of Your Name. The first thing long time readers of this column will note, as well as you who attend mainly the Novus Ordo, is the profoundly different tone of this prayer. It is just as succinct as most ancient Roman prayers. It has the classic structure. But the focus on our responsibility and guilt for our sins is very alien to the style of the Novus Ordo. For the most part, such direct references to our sinful state were systematically excised from the ancient prayers which survived in…

For the Collect in Sunday’s Ordinary Form, 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, here. The prayers and readings for the Masses of these pre-Lenten Sundays were compiled by St. Gregory the Great (+604), Pope in a time of great turmoil and suffering. Pre-Lent is particularly a time for preaching about missions and missionary work, the evangelization of peoples. In the Novus…

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Also posted: Jan 31, 2010

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs

memorial · Red · Ordinary Time · Year A

Readings at USCCB ↗

Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 6, 2006

6 Feb: St. Paul Miki and companions

Deus, omnium fortitudo sanctorum, qui beatos martyres Paulum eiusque socios per crucem ad vitam vocare dignatus es, praesta, quaesumus, ut, eorum intercessione, fidem quam profitemur usque ad mortem fortiter teneamus.
Literal rendering

O God, might of all the saints, who deigned to call the blessed martyrs Paul and his companions to Life through the Cross, grant, we beg You, that, through their intercession, we may mightily grasp all the way unto death the Faith which we profess.

St. Paul Miki was the son of the Miki Handayu, a military leader. He joined the Jesuits in 1580 and was educated by them. He was successful a propgating the Faith. Even when the persecutions of Christians began, he continued his work. He was arrested. Miki and the those imprisoned with him were then marched 600 miles to their death.…

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From 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectFeb 5, 2022

WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Epiphany & 5th Ordinary Sunday: A clarion clear call

Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, continua pietate custodi, ut, quae in sola spe gratiae caelestis innititur, tua semper protectione muniatur.
Literal rendering

Guard Your family, we beseech You, O Lord, with continual mercy, so that that (family) which is propping itself up upon the sole hope of heavenly grace may always be defended by Your protection.

This Sunday is another liturgical unicorn, that rarity of coinciding prayers in the Vetus and Novus Ordo. This Sunday’s Collect is the same in the pre-Conciliar, 1962 Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany and in the new-fangled Missal that the Council Fathers didn’t mandate and couldn’t have imagined when they voted for Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Novus Ordo of Paul…

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Also posted: Feb 3, 2017 · Feb 7, 2010 · Feb 4, 2007

Post CommunionFeb 4, 2007

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (2)

• Rom 12:5: ita multi unum corpus sumus in Christo singuli autem alter alterius membra • 1 Cor 10:17: quoniam unus panis unum corpus multi sumus omnes quidem de uno pane participamur • 1 Cor 11:28: probet autem se ipsum homo et sic de pane illo edat et de calice bibat • John 15:16: non vos me elegistis sed ego elegi vos et posui vos ut eatis et fructum adferatis et fructus vester maneat ut quodcumque petieritis Patrem in nomine meo det vobis • John 17:11: et iam non sum in mundo et hii in mundo sunt et ego ad te venio Pater sancte serva eos in nomine tuo quos dedisti mihi ut sint unum sicut et nos • John…
Literal rendering

O God, who desired that we be participants of the one bread and one chalice, grant us, we beg, so to live that, having been made one in Christ, we, rejoicing, may bear fruit for the salvation of the world. Holy Communion is both an outward sign and an interior cause of our union with Christ, as members of His Mystical Body the Church. During the Last Supper, Christ prayed to the Father before instituting the sacraments of the Eucharist and Holy Orders. Then He went out to His Passion and Sacrifice. He prayed: “…that they may all be one (ut omnes unum sint). As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in…

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 We have seen in the last few weeks another call from “the Chair” of the USCCB’s BCL (Bishops Committee on Liturgy) to keep the new translation being prepared “unchallenging” enough that it would raise neither…

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CollectApr 2, 2006

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (2)

Quaesumus, Domine Deus noster, ut in illa caritate, qua Filius tuus diligens mundum morti se tradidit, inveniamur ipsi, te opitulante, alacriter ambulantes.
Literal rendering

O Lord our God, we beg that, You assisting us, we ourselves may be found walking swiftly in that selfsame sacrificial love by which Your Son, loving the world, handed Himself over to death.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 5th Sunday of Lent – Station: St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 Some of your feedback. About the article on Latin studies now online on the website of The Wanderer, Fr. SB writes: “I recently read your article about learning…

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Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 12, 2006

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Super oblata (2)

Domine Deus noster qui has potius creaturas ad fragilitatis nostrae subsidium condidisti, tribue, quaesumus, ut etiam aeternitatis nobis fiant sacramentum.
Literal rendering

O Lord our God, who made these creatures above all others unto a support of our frailty, grant, we beseech Thee, that they may become for us the sacrament also of eternity.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time Once upon a time, papal documents were composed in Latin. The Pope would either write them himself or provide points which his Latin secretaries would then draft and polish. For example, when Leo XIII (+1903) wrote his milestone Rerum novarum (1891) the composition was entirely in Latin. The notebooks…

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Post CommunionFeb 5, 2006

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post Communion

Deus, qui nos de uno pane et de uno calice participes esse voluisti, da nobis, quaesumus, ita vivere, ut, unum in Christo effecti, fructum afferamus pro mundi salute gaudentes.
Literal rendering

O God, who desired that we be participants of the one bread and one chalice, grant us, we beg, so to live that, having been made one in Christ, we, rejoicing, may bear fruit for the salvation of the world.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 5th Sunday in of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in February 2003 Treasures arrived this week! I mean letters from you readers, of course. A veritable stack of them arrived, most in handwritten form. Since they all dated to September/October 2002, I think the editor found a pile that had not been…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere