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Friday, August 15, 2025

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

I class · White

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From 9th Sunday after Pentecost

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

CollectJul 28, 2023

WDTPRS – 9th Sunday after Pentecost: O God, ever distant, ever near

Pateant aures misericoridae tuae, Domine, precibus supplicantium: et, ut petentibus desiderata concedas; fac eos, quae tibi sunt placita, postulare.
Literal rendering

Open the ears of Your mercy, O Lord, to the prayers of those humbly beseeching: and, that You might grant the things desired to those seeking them, cause them to desire the things which are pleasing to You.

This week’s Collect, which historically was in the 8th century Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis, was also the prayer over the people, or Super populum, in the 1962MR for Wednesday of the 4th Week of Lent. It was not, I believe, in the 1970MR or 1975MR (Novus Ordo), but it was reinserted on Saturday of the 2nd Week of Lent in the…

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Also posted: Jul 13, 2008

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

solemnity · White · Ordinary Time · Year C

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From 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectAug 11, 2023

WDTPRS – 19th Ordinary Sunday: Father God, not Stranger God

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, quem [docente Spiritu Sancto – not in the 1970MR] paterno nomine invocare praesumimus, perfice in cordibus nostris spiritum adoptionis filiorum, ut promissam hereditatem ingredi mereamur.

The Collect for the 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time was not in previous editions Missale Romanum before the 1970 Novus Ordo. It has roots in the 9th century Sacramentary of Bergamo and thus is ancient text. Note that for the 2002 Missale Romanum there was a variation from the 1970MR. In the 2002MR the ablative absolute clause “docente Spiritu Sancto”…

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Also posted: Aug 7, 2021 · Aug 10, 2012

CollectAug 8, 2010

WDTPRS: 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time – COLLECT: sheer audacity

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, quem paterno nomine invocare praesumimus, perfice in cordibus nostris spiritum adoptionis filiorum, ut promissam hereditatem ingredi mereamur.
Literal rendering

Almighty eternal God, whom we presume to invoke by the name of Father, perfect in our hearts the spirit of the adoption of children, so that we may merit to enter into the inheritance promised. Notice that I translate filii as “children” rather than as just “sons”, according to the literal meaning. Latin masculine plurals, depending on the context, can also include females even though the form of the word is masculine.

Let’s have a look at this daring prayer. The Latin prayer was not in previous editions Missale Romanum before the 1970 Novus Ordo. It has roots in the 9th century Sacramentary of Bergamo and thus is ancient text. Paternus, a, um is an adjective, “fatherly”. Literally, a paternum nomen would be “Fatherly name”. In English we need to break that…

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Post CommunionAug 13, 2006

19th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION

Sacramentorum tuorum, Domine, communio sumpta nos salvet, et in tuae veritatis luce confirmet.
Literal rendering

May the reception of Your sacraments save us, O Lord, and strengthen us in the light of Your truth.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 Some feedback is coming in about the possibility of having a Roman WDTPRS pilgrimage of which I spoke last week. HE of TN writes already: “Please sign me up for the first group, the sooner the better. Just set a date, state…

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Prayer over the OfferingsAug 13, 2006

19th Sunday of Ordinary Time: SUPER OBLATA (2)

Ecclesiae tuae, Domine, munera placatus assume, quae et misericors offerenda tribuisti, et in nostrae salutis potenter efficis transire mysterium.
Literal rendering

Having been appeased, O Lord, take unto Yourself the gifts of Your Church which You both mercifully bestowed as things to be offered as sacrifices and You are causing mightily to transform into the mysterious sacrament of our salvation.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 19th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 Those who have been resisting the norms laid down in Liturgiam authenticam appeal to a theory of translation that would peg our liturgical texts to the ever-shifting style of common parlance. They are, in short, impossibly proposing to make everything “understandable” by…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere