Ordo for

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr

III class · Red

Commemoration of St. Liborius, Bishop and Confessor

From 8th Sunday after Pentecost

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

CollectJul 17, 2026

WDTPRS – 8th Sunday after Pentecost – living right

Largire nobis, quaesumus, Domine, semper spiritum cogitandi quae recta sunt, propitius et agendi: ut, qui sine te esse non possumus, secundum te vivere valeamus.

The Collect for Mass and the Office for this upcoming 8th Sunday after Pentecost is found in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical snipper with their scissors and paste pots to live on in the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum on Thursday of the 1st week of Lent. However, there is a minor…

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Also posted: Aug 3, 2025 · Jul 22, 2023 · Jul 18, 2015 · Aug 3, 2014

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Bridget of Sweden, Religious, Patron of Europe

feast · White · Ordinary Time · Year A

From 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectJul 17, 2026

WDTPRS – 16th (Novus Ordo) Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wherein Fr. Z rants.

Propitiare, Domine, famulis tuis, et clementer gratiae tuae super eos dona multiplica, ut, spe, fide et caritate ferventes, semper in mandatis tuis vigili custodia perseverent.
Literal rendering

Look propitiously on Your servants, O Lord, and indulgently multiply upon them the gifts of Your grace so that, burning with faith, hope and charity, they may with vigilant watchfulness persevere always in your commands.

We have been cheated of the beauty of our Catholic worship in Latin, which is our common patrimony. In fact, the swindle is far deeper. People have been denied the opportunity to learn Latin, which pretty much every more or less schooled person had as something so fundamental that it wasn’t even questioned.

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Also posted: Jul 22, 2023 · Jul 30, 2006

Post CommunionJul 30, 2006

16th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (2)

Populo tuo, quaesumus, Domine, adesto propitius, et, quem mysteriis caelestibus imbuisti, fac ad novitatem vitae de vestustate transire.
Literal rendering

We beseech you, O Lord, mercifully to be present to your people, and cause those whom you have imbued with the heavenly sacramental mysteries to cross over from the old to newness of life.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 Mr. John L. Allen, Jr., the outstanding Rome correspondent for the less than traditionally minded National Catholic Reporter reports in the 3 July 2003 The Word From Rome offering that on 27 June the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF)…

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Also posted: Jul 23, 2006

Prayer over the OfferingsJul 30, 2006

16th Sunday of Ordinary Time: SUPER OBLATA (2)

Deus, qui legalium differentiam hostiarum unius sacrificii perfectione sanxisti, accipe sacrificium a devotis tibi famulis, et pari benedictione, sicut munera Abel, sanctifica, ut, quod singuli obtulerunt ad maiestatis tuae honorem, cunctis proficiat ad salutem.
Literal rendering

O God, who by the perfection of one single sacrifice ratified the diversity of victim offerings prescribed by the Law, receive now a sacrifice from the servants devoted to You, and sanctify it by means of a blessing the like of that wherewith the gifts of Abel were blessed, so that what individuals have offered to the honor of your majesty may profit unto salvation for all.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 The offices of The Wanderer have not forwarded your snail-mail for a while, but here is some of your recent feedback via e-mail. W has written about the column and the WDTPRS internet blog (edited): “I was compelled this evening to send…

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Also posted: Jul 23, 2006

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere