Ordo for

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of the Church

III class · White

Commemoration of St. Stephen Pope and Martyr

Commentary for this day

From 7th Sunday after Pentecost

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

CollectJul 11, 2026

WDTPRS – 7th Sunday after Pentecost: God can neither deceive nor be deceived

Deus, cuius providentia in sui dispositione non fallitur te supplices exoramus, ut noxia cuncta submoveas, et omnia nobis profutura concedas.

In the traditional Roman calendar this Sunday is the 7th Sunday after Pentecost. Today’s Collect survived the cutting and pasting experts of the Consilium to live on as the Collect for the 9th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Note the use of the trop homoioteleuton (same ending in corresponding elements) in submoveas and concedas. The last two clauses, cola, both have…

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Also posted: Jul 6, 2024 · Jul 10, 2021 · Jul 23, 2017 · Jul 12, 2015

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop/Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Priest

opt memorial · Green · Ordinary Time · Year C

Commentary for this day

CollectAug 2, 2007

PODCAzT 40: Eusebius of Vercelli in exile; my column in The Wanderer about detractors of Summorum Pontificum

[display_podcast] In today’s PODCAzT you will hear excerpts of a tender letter (ep. 2) from an exiled St. Eusebius of Vercelli to his flock. I have a rather longer selection of the Latin original this time. Also, I read my latest column for The Wanderer, wherein I hit detractors of Summorum Pontificum pretty hard. 039 St. Augustine on Christ the…

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From 17th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectJul 25, 2026

WDTPRS – 17th Sunday Ordinary Time (Novus Ordo): Sin Teflon, Demon Kevlar

Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum, multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam, ut, te rectore, te duce, sic bonis transeuntibus nunc utamur, ut iam possimus inhaerere mansuris.

Shall we look at the Collect for this upcoming Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form? It will the 17th Sunday of Greater Meatloaf…. Ordinary Time. The traditional Roman Missal, 1962MR, places today’s Collect at the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost though it is a little different from the newer version, to wit: sic transeamus per bona temporalia, ut non amittamus…

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