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Friday, September 15, 2023

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

II class · White

Commemoration of St. Nicomedes, Martyr

Mass texts at Divinum Officium ↗

From 15th Sunday after Pentecost

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

CollectSep 5, 2026

WDTPRS – 15th Sunday after Pentecost: The Church is taking on water. Is she sinking?

Ecclesiam tuam, Domine, miseratio continuata mundet et muniat: et quia sine te non potest salva consistere; tuo semper munere gubernetur.
Literal rendering

Let Your continuous compassion, cleanse and defend Your Church, O Lord, and because without You she cannot stand to, safe, may she forever by Your favor be steered.

For the last few years I’ve had a terrible inkling that the Church hit an iceberg and is taking on water faster than it can be pumped. It has ever been so, in cycles, since the Lord’s Ascension. The Church will not sink, capsize or founder.

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Also posted: Sep 21, 2025 · Sep 16, 2022 · Sep 6, 2015

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Our Lady of Sorrows

memorial · White · Ordinary Time · Year A

Readings at USCCB ↗

Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 28, 2006

28 (27) Feb: St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Deus, qui beatum Gabrielem dulcissimae Matris tuae dolores assidue recolere docuisti, ac per illam sanctitatis et miraculorum gloria sublimasti: da nobis, eius intercessione et exemplo; ita Genetricis tuae consociari fletibus, ut materna eiusdem protectione salvemur.
Literal rendering

O God, who taught blessed Gabriel to reflect constantly upon the sorrows of Your most sweet Mother, and through her raised him on high by the glory of holiness and miracles: grant us, by his intercession and example; so to be joined to the tears of Your Mother, that we may be saved by her maternal protection.

Yesterday was the feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows according to the calendar of the Novus Ordo, however, in the older, so-called "Tridentine" Missal we find that either 27 or 28 February was given to him. His date is most properly 27 February since that is the day he died and was born into heaven in 1862.…

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From 23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectSep 4, 2022

WDTPRS – 23rd Ordinary Sunday: Submission, manumission, filiation

Deus, per quem nobis et redemptio venit et praestatur adoptio, filios dilectionis tuae benignus intende, ut in Christo credentibus et vera tribuatur libertas, et hereditas aeterna.
Literal rendering

O God, through whom to us come both redemption and adoption is guaranteed, kindly give attention to your beloved children, so that both true freedom and the inheritance everlasting may be bestowed on those believing in Christ.

The Collect for the 23rd Ordinary Sunday – this Sunday – was not in any pre-Conciliar edition of the Roman Missal, but it was in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary in a section for evening prayers during Paschaltide. You have to wonder how they – the cutting and pasting experts – made these decisions.

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Also posted: Sep 5, 2021 · Sep 7, 2019 · Sep 10, 2006

Post CommunionSep 10, 2006

23rd Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (1)

em Latin (2002 Missale Romanum): Da fidelibus tuis, Domine, quos et verbi tui et caelestis sacramenti pabulo nutris et vivificas, ita dilecti Filii tui tantis muneribus proficere, ut eius vitae semper consortes effici mereamur.

What Does The Prayer Really Say? 23rd Sunday Of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 I made comments about the ungrammatical ICEL rendering of “all honor and glory is yours, Almighty Father.” This incited various notes from readers, including that from Fr. PN via e-mail: “In reference to your recent column (August 21) you criticize the translation…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere