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Monday, February 2, 2026

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

II class · White

Mass texts at Divinum Officium ↗

Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 2, 2024

WDTPRS – Candlemas: Purification of the BVM & Presentation of Our Lord

Domine Iesu Christe, lux vera, quae illuminas omnem hominem venientem in hunc mundum: effunde bene+dictionem tuam super hos cereos, et sancti+fica eos lumine gratiae tuae, et concede propitius; ut, sicut haec luminaria igne visibili accensa nocturnas depellunt tenebras; ita corda nostra invisibili igne, id est, Sancti Spiritus splendore illustrata, omnium vitiorum caecitate careant: ut, purgato mentis oculo, ea cernere possimus, quae tibi sunt placita, et nostrae saluti utilia; quatenus, post huius saeculi caliginosa discrimina, ad lucem indeficientem pervenire mereamur. Per te, Christe Iesu, Salvator mundi, qui in Trinitate perfecta vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. R. Amen.

Today is the final “peak” arising from the liturgical cycle of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany. Today, called in the traditional way and according to the older Roman calendar the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Church would cease to sing the Marian antiphon associated with Christmas,

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From Septuagesima Sunday

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

CollectJan 31, 2026

WDTPRS: Septuagesima Sunday

Preces populi tui, quaesumus, Domine, clementer exaudi: ut, qui iuste pro peccatis nostris affligimur, pro tui nominis gloria misericorditer liberemur.
Literal rendering

We beseech You, O Lord, graciously to hark to the prayers of Your people: so that we who for our sins are justly afflicted, may for the glory of Your Name mercifully be freed.

The Collect of the Mass for Septuagesima Sunday is bracing. It has a different feel than many of our Sunday orations. Bl. Ildefonso Schuster observes, that this prayer St. Gregory, son of a senator and at 30 years of age Prefect of Rome, was the first Pope from a monastic background. It was a time of upheaval, plague and famine.…

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Also posted: Jan 28, 2024 · Feb 4, 2023 · Feb 11, 2017 · Jan 23, 2016 · Feb 7, 2009 · Jan 20, 2008

CollectFeb 20, 2011

WDTPRS: Septuagesima

Fideles tui, Deus, per tua dona firmentur: ut éadem et percipiendo requirant, et quaerendo sine fine percipiant. Glorious.
Literal rendering

We beseech You, O Lord, graciously to hark to the prayers of Your people: so that we who are justly afflicted for our sins, may mercifully be freed for the glory of Your Name. The first thing long time readers of this column will note, as well as you who attend mainly the Novus Ordo, is the profoundly different tone of this prayer. It is just as succinct as most ancient Roman prayers. It has the classic structure. But the focus on our responsibility and guilt for our sins is very alien to the style of the Novus Ordo. For the most part, such direct references to our sinful state were systematically excised from the ancient prayers which survived in…

For the Collect in Sunday’s Ordinary Form, 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, here. The prayers and readings for the Masses of these pre-Lenten Sundays were compiled by St. Gregory the Great (+604), Pope in a time of great turmoil and suffering. Pre-Lent is particularly a time for preaching about missions and missionary work, the evangelization of peoples. In the Novus…

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Also posted: Jan 31, 2010

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Presentation of the Lord

feast · White · Ordinary Time · Year A

Readings at USCCB ↗

Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 2, 2016

WDTPRS: Presentation – “the substance of our flesh”

Deus, qui in hodierna die unigenitus tuus in nostra carne quam adsumpsit pro nobis in templo est praesentatus, praesta, ut quem redemptorem nostrum laeti suscipimus, uenientem quoque iudicem securi videamus: …
Literal rendering

Almighty and everlasting God, we humbly beseech Your majesty, that, just as Your only-begotten Son was on this day in the substance of our flesh, presented in the temple, so too You may cause us, once our minds have been purified, to be presented unto You.

Forty days (there’s that number again) out from the Feast of the Nativity we come to the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, called also the Purification of Mary as well as the Feast of Meeting by some of our Eastern brethren. Today is also called “Candlemas”, for we bless candles and light them against the darkness. And today…

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Also posted: Feb 2, 2011 · Feb 2, 2006

CollectFeb 2, 2015

WDTPRS: Candlemas

Domine Iesu Christe, lux vera, quae illuminas omnem hominem venientem in hunc mundum: effunde bene+dictionem tuam super hos cereos, et sancti+fica eos lumine gratiae tuae, et concede propitius; ut, sicut haec luminaria igne visibili accensa nocturnas depellunt tenebras; ita corda nostra invisibili igne, id est, Sancti Spiritus splendore illustrata, omnium vitiorum caecitate careant: ut, purgato mentis oculo, ea cernere possimus, quae tibi sunt placita, et nostrae saluti utilia; quatenus, post huius saeculi caliginosa discrimina, ad lucem indeficientem pervenire mereamur. Per te, Christe Iesu, Salvator mundi, qui in Trinitate perfecta vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. R. Amen.

Today is the final “peak” arising from the liturgical cycle of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany. Today, called in the traditional way and according to the older Roman calendar the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Church would cease to sing the Marian antiphon associated with Christmas,

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Also posted: Feb 2, 2013

From 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectJan 27, 2018

WDTPRS – 4th Ordinary Sunday: Billy loves bugs

Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut [et (in Ver.)] te tota mente veneremur, et omnes homines rationabili diligamus affectu.
Literal rendering

Grant us, O Lord our God, that we may venerate you with our whole mind, and may love all men with rational good-will.

Today’s Collect prayer for the 4th Ordinary Sunday (it’s Septuagesima in the traditional calendar) was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary. Were you to hear this prayer intoned in Latin, or at least in an accurate translation, you would be thereby transported back 1500 years to…

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Also posted: Jan 29, 2011 · Jan 31, 2010 · Jan 28, 2007 · Jan 26, 2006

Post CommunionJan 28, 2007

4th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (2)

Redemptionis nostrae munere vegetati, quaesumus, Domine, ut hoc perpetuae salutis auxilio fides semper vera proficiat.

What Does The Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday In Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 I had a lovely experience. I went for supper with a priest and 13 sisters visiting Rome. The Sister Servants of the Eternal Word told me they pray every day in their community for accurate…

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Also posted: Jan 26, 2006

Prayer over the OfferingsJan 26, 2006

4th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Super oblata (1)

Altaribus tuis, Domine, munera nostrae servitutis inferimus, quae, placatus assumens, sacramentum nostrae redemptionis efficias.
Literal rendering

We are bringing in to place upon your altars, O Lord, the gifts of our service, which, having been appeased and as you take them up, you make into the sacrament of our redemption.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January of 2002 Before we begin, I have a some proof that there are indeed readers of WDTPRS west of the mighty Mississippi. JFW of UT writes by snail-mail: “Your column is really a shot in the arm, but it indirectly reinforces my…

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CollectJan 26, 2006

4th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (1)

LATIN (1970 Missale Romanum) Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut te tota mente veneremur, et omnes homines rationabili diligamus affectu.
Literal rendering

Grant us, O Lord our God, that we may venerate you with our whole mind, and may love all men with rational good-will. We are asking God to permit us, to allow us as a great gift and favor granted, to “venerate” God with our whole mind. This veneror, as the great Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary provides, has a deeply religious connotation and means, “to reverence with religious awe, to worship, adore, revere, venerate… to do homage.” Think of its use in the well-known Tantum Ergo, which describes us as cernui, “heads bowed to the ground.” To “venerate” as we should, it will be necessary to seek to know Him for we are to do this with our “whole…

What Does the Prayer Really Say? Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January 2001 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January 2001 This prayer comes in a time when we see in the newsworthy activities being covered by the media that love of God and neighbor should be prayed for with great and intense fervor.…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere