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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church

III class · White

Commemoration of St. Hermes, Martyr

Mass texts at Divinum Officium ↗

From 11th Sunday after Pentecost

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

CollectAug 24, 2025

WDTPRS – 11th Sunday after Pentecost: healthy “pessimism”, a realistic view of who we are and who we aren’t

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui abundantia pietatis tuae et merita supplicum excedis et vota: effunde super nos misericordiam tuam; ut dimittasquae conscientia metuit, et adicias quod oratio non praesumit.

With a minor variation this week’s Collect was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary. It survived the cut to live on in the Novus Ordo Missale Romanum as the Collect on the 27th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Our information-oozing Lewis & Short Dictionary, says votum means “a solemn promise made to some deity; a vow.” It is therefore also the thing…

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Also posted: Aug 12, 2023

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Augustine of Hippo, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

memorial · White · Ordinary Time · Year C

Readings at USCCB ↗

From 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectAug 26, 2023

WDTPRS – 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: Vicissitudes and confusion, fog of the world, smoke of Satan, coming precisely whence there ought to be coming clarity.

Deus, qui fidelium mentes unius efficis voluntatis, da populis tuis id amare quod praecipis, id desiderare quod promittis, ut, inter mundanas varietates, ibi nostra fixa sint corda, ubi vera sunt gaudia.
Literal rendering

O God, You who make the minds of the faithful to be of one will, grant unto Your people to love that thing which You command, to desire that which You promise, so that, amidst the vicissitudes of this world, our hearts may there be fixed where true joys are.

Let’s have a look in advance of the Collect for Sunday in the Novus Ordo, which I assume most of you attend (perforce or not). A master crafted this. This same Collect is used for the Monday of the Fifth week of Easter and also in the 1962MR on the Fourth Sunday after Easter. Therefore we have seen this prayer…

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Also posted: Aug 21, 2021 · Aug 19, 2016 · Aug 22, 2015 · Aug 24, 2013

Prayer over the OfferingsAug 27, 2006

21st Sunday of Ordinary Time: SUPER OBLATA (2)

Qui una semel hostia, Domine, adoptionis tibi populum acquisisti, unitatis et pacis in Ecclesia tua propitius nobis dona concedas.
Literal rendering

O Lord, who acquired for Yourself a people of adoption by a single victim sacrifice offered once only, graciously grant to us the gifts of unity and peace in Your Church.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 21st Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 One of my favorite blogs Laudator Temporis Acti provides amusing daily fare. Recently the blogger cited Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent (Ch. 2) and I had to share it with you. It reminds me of…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere