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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Henry the Emperor, Confessor

III class · White

From 5th Sunday after Pentecost

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

CollectJun 27, 2026

WDTPRS: 5th Sunday after Pentecost – 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.

This Sunday’s prayer is at least as old as the Gelasian Sacramentary. It has survived the post-Conciliar revisions to live again on the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time. The version in the Novus Ordo, however, adds a comma after ut. The insuperable Lewis & Short Dictionary divulges that affectus means “a state of body, and especially of mind produced in…

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Also posted: Jun 25, 2021

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor

memorial · White · Ordinary Time · Year C

From 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectJul 10, 2026

WDTPRS – 15th Ordinary Sunday (N.O.): Too far right or too far left, we wind up in the ditch in the dark

Deus, qui errantibus, ut in viam possint redire, veritatis tuae lumen ostendis, da cunctis qui christiana professione censentur, et illa respuere, quae huic inimica sunt nomini, et ea quae sunt apta sectari.
Literal rendering

O God, who show the light of Your truth to the erring so that they might be able to return unto the way grant to all who are distinguished by their profession of Christ that they may both strongly reject those things which are inimical to this name of Christian and follow eagerly the things which are suited to it.

This week, the 15th Ordinary Sunday in the Novus Ordo calendar, we have a good example of the dramatic difference between the old, Obsolete ICEL version we suffered with for decades, and the Latin with the Current ICEL version. The Collect or Opening Prayer for this 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Novus Ordo is also used in the…

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Also posted: Jul 12, 2019 · Jul 14, 2017

Post CommunionJul 16, 2006

15th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION

Sumptis muneribus, quaesumus, Domine, ut, cum frequentatione mysterii, crescat nostrae salutis effectus.
Literal rendering

The gifts having been consumed, we beg you, O Lord, that the effect of our salvation may grow with frequent participation in the sacramental mystery.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 15th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 More than one of you the faithful readers of WDTPRS have inquired about the Latin text of the Holy Father’s recent encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia which I said was on the Vatican’s internet website. Apparently some folks are having difficulties locating it…

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