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Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

St. Pius X, Pope and Confessor

III class · White

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From 14th Sunday after Pentecost

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

CollectSep 3, 2023

WDTPRS – 14th Sunday after Pentecost: the finger

Custodi, Domine, quaesumus, Ecclesiam tuam propitiatione perpetua: et quia sine te labitur humana mortalitas; tuis semper auxiliis et abstrahatur a noxiis, et ad salutaria dirigatur.
Literal rendering

Guard your Church, we beseech You, O Lord, with perpetual favor, and since without You our mortal flesh slides toward ruin by means of your helping remedies let it be pulled back from injuries and be guided unto saving healths.

This Sunday’s Collect for the Extraordinary Form survived the snipping and pasting of the Consilium and the late Annibale Bugnini’s liturgical experts to be used in the Ordinary Form on Tuesday of the 2nd week of Lent. Figure that one out. Propitiatio, in its fundamental meaning, is “an appeasing, atonement, propitiation”. The dictionary of liturgical Latin Blaise/Dumas also gives us…

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Also posted: Sep 10, 2022 · Aug 29, 2010 · Aug 16, 2008

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

memorial · White · Ordinary Time · Year A

Readings at USCCB ↗

From 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectAug 28, 2021

WDTPRS – 22nd Ordinary Sunday: O mighty God of hosts, graft into our hearts the love of Your Name!

Deus virtutum, cuius est totum quod est optimum, insere pectoribus nostris tui nominis amorem, et praesta, ut in nobis, religionis augmento, quae sunt bona nutrias, ac, vigilanti studio, quae nutrita custodias.
Literal rendering

O mighty God of hosts, of whom is the entirety of what is perfect, graft into our hearts the love of Your Name, and grant, that by means of an increase of the virtue of religion, You may nourish in us the things which are good, and, by means of vigilant zeal, guard the things which have been nourished.

In the Sanctus of Holy Mass and, in the great Te Deum, we echo the myriads of angels bowed low in the liturgy of heaven before God’s throne: “Holy, Holy, Holy LORD GOD SABAOTH …. God of “heavenly hosts”. With small differences our Collect for the upcoming 22nd Ordinary Sunday (Novus Ordo) is based on a prayer in the 8th…

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Also posted: Aug 30, 2008 · Sep 3, 2006

Post CommunionSep 3, 2006

22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (1)

Pane mensae caelestis refecti, te, Domine, deprecamur, ut hoc nutrimentum caritatis corda nostra confirmet, quatenus ad tibi ministrandum in fratribus excitemur.
Literal rendering

Having been refreshed by the bread of the heavenly table, we beseech You, O Lord, that this nourishment of charity strengthen our hearts to the point that we are roused up to serve you in our brethren.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 22nd Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 JR of KY writes: “I really enjoy your weekly WDTPRS column in The Wanderer, especially the first few paragraphs. I am 56, a former altar boy, and an amateur Latin enthusiast and devoted to the…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere