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Friday, December 13, 2024

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Lucy, Virgin and Martyr

III class · Red

Commemoration of Friday of the 2nd week of Advent

Mass texts at Divinum Officium ↗

Commentary for this day

CollectDec 13, 2024

13 Dec – St. Lucy in the sky with her own eyes – UPDATED

Intercessio nos, quaesumus, Domine, sanctae Luciae virginis et martyris gloriosa confoveat, ut eius natalicia et temporaliter frequentemus, et conspiciamus aeterna.

One of you long-time readers here, FV, alerted me to the fact that his daughter contributed artwork for a post at NLM about St. Lucy. The idea was to contrast that hideous Jubilee mascot, the gay’d-up creepy Greta wannabe, Luce, with St. Lucy. Thanks to FV for this head’s up! I usually look at NLM but I appreciate the tip.

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Also posted: Dec 13, 2019

From 2nd Sunday of Advent

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

CollectDec 5, 2010

WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Advent (1962MR)

Excita, Domine, corda nostra ad praeparandas Unigeniti tui vias; ut, per eius adventum, purificatis tibi mentibus servire mereamur.
Literal rendering

Rouse up our hearts, O Lord, to make ready the paths for Your Only-Begotten, so that through His Coming we may be worthy to serve You with minds made pure.

The 2nd Sunday of Advent harks to the City of David: Jerusalem. Indeed the Roman Station is at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. Jerusalem is not just the physical place we might visit, where the historical events we commemorate took place. Jerusalem is the symbol of the Church on earth. It is also the heavenly kingdom for which we are preparing.

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Lucy of Syracuse, Virgin and Martyr

memorial · Red · Advent · Year C

Readings at USCCB ↗

Commentary for this day

CollectDec 10, 2010

WDTPRS: Collect – Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent

Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, plebi tuae adventum Unigeniti tui cum summa vigilantia exspectare, ut, sicut ipse docuit auctor nostrae salutis, accensis lampadibus in eius occursum vigilantes properemus.

The Collect for Friday of the 2nd Week of Advent. This is an ancient prayer, found in the Gelasian Sacramentary among the prayers for Advent. Exspecto means, basically, “await”. But our fully-stocked Lewis & Short Dictionary shows that it means also “to look for with hope, fear, desire, expectation, to hope for, long for, expect, desire; to fear, dread, anticipate,…

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Also posted: Dec 14, 2007 · Dec 15, 2006

From 2nd Sunday of Advent

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

CollectDec 9, 2023

WDTPRS – 2nd Sunday of Advent: “We escape neither the Enemy lion nor the glorious Lion of Judah”

Omnipotens et misericors Deus, in tui occursum Filii festinantes nulla opera terreni actus impediant, sed sapientiae caelestis eruditio nos faciat eius esse consortes.
Literal rendering

Almighty and merciful God, let no works of worldly impulse impede those hurrying to the meeting of Your Son, but rather let the learning of heavenly wisdom make us to be His co-heirs.

Our Novus Ordo Collect (once called the “Opening Prayer”) for the 2nd Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of Ravenna, dated perhaps as early as the 5th century. Impedio (built from the word pes, pedis, “foot”), at the core of this prayer, is “to snare or tangle the…

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Also posted: Dec 8, 2017 · Dec 3, 2016 · Dec 4, 2015 · Dec 6, 2014 · Dec 1, 2011 · Dec 4, 2010 · Dec 6, 2009 · Dec 10, 2006

CollectDec 3, 2011

WDTPRS 2nd Sunday of Advent (1962MR)

Excita, Domine, corda nostra ad praeparandas Unigeniti tui vias; ut, per eius adventum, purificatis tibi mentibus servire mereamur.
Literal rendering

Rouse up our hearts, O Lord, to make ready the paths for Your Only-Begotten, so that through His Coming we may be worthy to serve You with minds made pure.

The 1962MR for the 1st Sunday of Advent stressed the Second Coming, and therefore attentive penance. Yet in the Postcommunion last week, the priest brought us back to preparation also for the approaching feast of the Nativity: “May we receive, O Lord, Thy mercy in the midst of Thy Temple, that we may prepare with due honor for the approaching…

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Prayer over the OfferingsDec 10, 2006

2nd Sunday of Advent: SUPER OBLATA (2)

Placare, Domine, quaesumus, nostrae precibus humilitatis et hostiis, et, ubi nulla suppetunt suffragia meritorum tuae nobis indulgentiae succurre praesidiis.
Literal rendering

Be Thou appeased, O Lord, we beseech Thee, by the prayers of our humility and by our sacrificial offerings, and, where no favorable points of merits suffice for us, succor us by the helps of Thy indulgence. This Sunday’s “prayer over the gifts” must be kept in context. This is a season of preparation for the Lord’s Coming. The Baptist warns us from the wilderness that we ought to “make straight His path” for someday we will face Him. If ahead of time we have not taken the proper steps, He will straighten us out Himself. This is a fearful thing to ponder. Indeed, were it not for the First Coming of the Lord and the Sacrifice He made for…

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 2nd Sunday of Advent – Roman Station: Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 Last week I wrote: “WDTPRS thinks there will soon be a significant change at the (Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments – CDWDS)…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere