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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot de Chantal, Widow

III class · White

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From 13th Sunday after Pentecost

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

CollectAug 18, 2024

WDTPRS – 13th Sunday after Pentecost: “E ‘n la sua volontade è nostra pace!”

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis fidei, spei et caritatis augmentum: et, ut mereamur assequi quod promittis, fac nos amare quod praecipis.
Literal rendering

Almighty everlasting God, grant us an increase of faith, hope and charity, and cause us to love what You command so that we may merit to obtain what You promise.

Today’s Collect for the 13th Sunday after Pentecost in the Vetus Ordo survived the redactors to live on in the Novus Ordo as the Collect for the 30th Sunday of Ordinary Time. It is an ancient prayer, found in the Veronese and the Gelasian Sacramentary.

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Also posted: Aug 13, 2015 · Sep 10, 2011

Prayer over the OfferingsSep 11, 2011

WDTPRS – SECRET 13th Sunday after Pentecost: a fearful puzzle

Propitiare, Domine, populo tuo, propitiare muneribus, ut, hac oblatione placatus, et indulgentiam nobis tribuas, et postulata concedas.

This is a classic Roman prayer, terse, balanced. Note the elegant repetition of propitiare. These two petitions are followed by two more, set off by an et…et construction. On the page of your Missale Romanum you may not immediately see the parallel construction, but when it is separated into different lines and arranged as below, you can see how it…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Pius X, Pope

memorial · White · Ordinary Time · Year B

Readings at USCCB ↗

From 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectAug 15, 2026

WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): snatched up into invisible love

Deus, qui diligentibus te bona invisibilia praeparasti, infunde cordibus nostris tui amoris affectum, ut, te in omnibus et super omnia diligentes, promissiones tuas, quae omne desiderium superant, consequamur.
Literal rendering

O God, who have prepared unseen goods for those loving You, pour into our hearts the disposition of Your love, so that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may attain Your promises, which surpass every desire.

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. Our prayer has many different words for love and longing: diligo, amor, affectus and the related cor, desiderium, promissio. Affectus means “a state of body, and especially of mind produced in one by…

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Also posted: Aug 19, 2023 · Aug 17, 2019

Prayer over the OfferingsAug 20, 2006

20th Sunday of Ordinary Time: SUPER OBLATA (2)

Suscipe, Domine, munera nostra, quibus exercentur commercia gloriosa, ut, offerentes quae dedisti, te ipsum mereamur accipere.
Literal rendering

Catch up our gifts, O Lord, by which glorious transforming exchanges are given impetus, so that we who are offering what you have given may merit to be recipients of You Yourself.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 His Excellency Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds and chairman of the new and improved ICEL, wrote a piece for The Tablet (5 August) describing the status quaestionis. Here are a few of his comments.

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere