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Monday, September 15, 2025

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary

II class · White

Commemoration of St. Nicomedes, Martyr

Mass texts at Divinum Officium ↗

From Exaltation of the Holy Cross

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

CollectSep 14, 2021

WDTPRS- Exaltation of the Cross and Basil Emeritus

Deus, qui nos hodierna die Exaltationis sanctae Crucis annua solemnitate laetificas: praesta quaesumus; ut cuius mysterium in terra cognovimus, eius redemptionis praemia in caelo mereamur.
Literal rendering

O God, who on this day gladden us by the yearly solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: grant, we beseech You; that in heaven we may merit to attain the rewards of redemption of Him, whose mystery we have known on earth.

Let’s look at the Collects for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross in both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Form, Novus Ordo (1970MR etc.) and the Vetus Ordo (1962MR of St John XXIII). These are now, apparently acknowledge as being two different Rites rather than two different uses or forms of the same rite. This is something we…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Our Lady of Sorrows

memorial · White · Ordinary Time · Year C

Readings at USCCB ↗

Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 28, 2006

28 (27) Feb: St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Deus, qui beatum Gabrielem dulcissimae Matris tuae dolores assidue recolere docuisti, ac per illam sanctitatis et miraculorum gloria sublimasti: da nobis, eius intercessione et exemplo; ita Genetricis tuae consociari fletibus, ut materna eiusdem protectione salvemur.
Literal rendering

O God, who taught blessed Gabriel to reflect constantly upon the sorrows of Your most sweet Mother, and through her raised him on high by the glory of holiness and miracles: grant us, by his intercession and example; so to be joined to the tears of Your Mother, that we may be saved by her maternal protection.

Yesterday was the feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows according to the calendar of the Novus Ordo, however, in the older, so-called "Tridentine" Missal we find that either 27 or 28 February was given to him. His date is most properly 27 February since that is the day he died and was born into heaven in 1862.…

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From The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

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

CollectSep 14, 2026

WDTPRS- Exaltation of the Cross

Deus, qui nos hodierna die Exaltationis sanctae Crucis annua solemnitate laetificas: praesta quaesumus; ut cuius mysterium in terra cognovimus, eius redemptionis praemia in caelo mereamur.
Literal rendering

O God, who on this day gladden us by the yearly solemnity of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross: grant, we beseech You; that in heaven we may merit to attain the rewards of redemption of Him, whose mystery we have known on earth.

Today’s feast commemorates the discovery in AD 325 in Jerusalem by the Emperor Constantine’s mother St Helena of the Holy Cross, as tradition has it, under sweet basil herb bushes. It is also the anniversary of the Dedication of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher built on that site in 335. A portion of the Cross was placed there. The…

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Also posted: Sep 14, 2020

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere