Ordo for

Friday, September 19, 2025

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Januarius, Bishop and Companions, Martyrs

III class · Red

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

Saint Januarius, Bishop and Martyr

opt memorial · Green · Ordinary Time · Year C

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