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Thursday, August 21, 2025

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot de Chantal, Widow

III class · White

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From 10th Sunday after Pentecost

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

CollectAug 1, 2026

WDTPRS – 10th Sunday after Pentecost (Vetus Ordo): Mercy and Justice are not opposed

Deus, qui omnipotentiam tuam parcendo maxime et miserando manifestas: multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam; ut, ad tua promissa currentes, caelestium bonorum facias esse consortes.
Literal rendering

O God, who manifest Your omnipotence especially by sparing and being merciful, increase Your mercy upon us, [pour Your grace upon us unceasingly, – 2002MR] so that You may make those who are rushing to the things You have promised to be partakers of heavenly benefits.

Symbols of Mercy and Justice on the emblem of the Spanish Inquisition The Collect for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost in the Extraordinary Form survived, sort of survived, to live in the post-Conciliar, reformed Missale Romanum! You can find it, somewhat wounded, for the 26th Sunday of Ordinary Time in the Ordinary Form Missale Romanum. I’ll show you the variation,…

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Also posted: Aug 13, 2017 · Jul 23, 2016

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Pius X, Pope

memorial · White · Ordinary Time · Year C

Readings at USCCB ↗

From 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectAug 15, 2026

WDTPRS – 20th Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo): 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.
Literal rendering

O God, who have prepared unseen goods for those loving You, pour into our hearts the disposition of Your love, so that we, loving you in all things and above all things, may attain Your promises, which surpass every desire.

The Collect for the 20th Ordinary Sunday, found also in the 8th century Gelasian Sacramentary, is in the 1962 Missale Romanum for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost. Our prayer has many different words for love and longing: diligo, amor, affectus and the related cor, desiderium, promissio. Affectus means “a state of body, and especially of mind produced in one by…

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Also posted: Aug 19, 2023 · Aug 17, 2019

Prayer over the OfferingsAug 20, 2006

20th Sunday of Ordinary Time: SUPER OBLATA (2)

Suscipe, Domine, munera nostra, quibus exercentur commercia gloriosa, ut, offerentes quae dedisti, te ipsum mereamur accipere.
Literal rendering

Catch up our gifts, O Lord, by which glorious transforming exchanges are given impetus, so that we who are offering what you have given may merit to be recipients of You Yourself.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 His Excellency Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds and chairman of the new and improved ICEL, wrote a piece for The Tablet (5 August) describing the status quaestionis. Here are a few of his comments.

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere