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Monday, November 4, 2024

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop and Confessor

III class · White

Commemoration of Sts. Vitalis and Agricola, Martyrs

Mass texts at Divinum Officium ↗

From 24th Sunday after Pentecost (4th after Epiphany)

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

CollectJan 29, 2023

WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Epiphany: YOU, weary foot soldier of the Church Militant

Deus, qui nos in tantis periculis constitutos pro humana scis fragilitate non posse subsistere: da nobis salutem mentis et corporis; ut ea, quae pro peccatis nostris patimur, te adiuvante vincamus.
Literal rendering

O God, You who know that we, set in such great dangers, are not able to hold out because of human fragility: grant us health of mind and body; so that, You helping us, we may vanquish those things which we suffer on account of our sins

This Collect sometimes winds up at the end of the liturgical year, depending on when Easter, and therefore Pentecost, falls. This year, because Easter is a little later, we have it before Septuagesima (next week… already). I found this prayer in the Hadrianum, Augustodunensis, and the Liber sacramentorum Romanae ecclesiae ordine excarpsus.

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Also posted: Nov 2, 2008

Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 1, 2009

WDTPRS: 4th Sunday after Epiphany – SECRET (1962MR)

Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut huius sacrificii munus oblatum fragilitatem nostram ab omni malo purget semper et muniat
Literal rendering

Grant, we beg, Almighty God: that the gift of this Sacrifice offered up may always purge our frailness from every evil and secure it.

Here is part of a piece I wrote for the weekly The Wanderer. In the traditional Roman calendar this is the Season after Epiphany, called in the typical edition of the 1962 Missale Romanum the “Tempus per annum ante Septuagesimam… Time through the year before Septuagesima”. On Monday 2 February, forty days after Christmas, we observe the feast of the…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Charles Borromeo, Bishop

memorial · White · Ordinary Time · Year B

Readings at USCCB ↗

From 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectNov 3, 2024

WDTPRS – 31st Ordinary Sunday: Running and stumbling! Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Omnipotens et misericors Deus, de cuius munere venit, ut tibi a fidelibus tuis digne et laudabiliter serviatur, tribue, quaesumus, nobis, ut ad promissiones tuas sine offensione curramus.
Literal rendering

Almighty and merciful God, from whose gift it comes that You be served by the faithful worthily and laudably, grant us, we beseech You, that we may run toward Your promises without stumbling.

At the end, I rant. The Collect for the 31st Ordinary Sunday, which was in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary, is also found in the Extraordinary Form on the 12th Sunday after Pentecost. Servio, “to serve”, is very rarely found in the passive. We must break “that it be served in reference to You” down into “that You be served”.

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Also posted: Oct 29, 2016 · Nov 2, 2013

Post CommunionNov 5, 2006

31st Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (1)

Augeatur in nobis, quaesumus, Domine, tuae virtutis operatio, ut, refecti caelestibus sacramentis, ad eorum promissa capienda tuo munere praeparemur.
Literal rendering

May the working of your power, O Lord, be increased in us, so that, having been reinvigorated by the heavenly sacraments, we may by your gift be prepared to grasp hold of the things they promise. It is easy to snipe at the now lame-duck ICEL translations made decades ago. At the same time it is very hard to produce adequate alternatives. Consider that two of the Latin words is today’s prayer have at the same time regular, surface meanings which are somewhat intuitive from having a good working English vocabulary inventory. However, both those words when you get under the surface had for centuries religious and ritual applications that make them snap and echo with new possibilities. How does…

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 31st Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 JR writes via e-mail: “Some time ago, you wrote in WDTPRS about the ordo, and its notation of the daily "station churches," which were, of course, deleted from the Roman Missal when it was revised…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere