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Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Friday after Ash Wednesday

III class · Violet

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From Quinquagesima Sunday

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

CollectFeb 15, 2026

WDTPRS – Quinquagesima Sunday: Prepare for BATTLE!

Preces nostras, quaesumus, Domine, clementer exaudi: atque, a peccatorum vinculis absolutos, ab omni nos adversitate custodi.
Literal rendering

We beseech You, O Lord, graciously attend to our prayers: and, having been loosed from the fetters of sins, guard us from every adversity.

In our traditional Roman calendar, Sunday is Quinquagesima, Latin for the symbolic “Fiftieth” day before Easter. This is one of the pre-Lenten Sundays which prepare us for the discipline of Lent. The priest’s vestments are purple. No Gloria. No Alleluia. The prayers and readings for the pre-Lenten Sundays were compiled by St. Gregory the Great (+604).

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Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 14, 2010

WDTPRS: Quinquagesima – SECRET

Haec hostia, Domine, quaesumus, emundet nostra delicta: et ad sacrificium celebrandum, subditorum tibi corpora mentesque sanctificet.
Literal rendering

O Lord, may this sacrificial offering cleanse away our sins, and may it sanctify the bodies and minds of those subject to You unto the Sacrifice now to be celebrated. Human beings are both body and soul. The wounds to our human nature from the Fall of our First Parents affected us both spiritually and physically. The whole human person needs healing. Therefore, the Word took up all of our human nature, perfect human body and soul, so that the whole of man could be redeemed. At Mass there is also an inward component and an outward physical expression. Both must be active, each in their own proper manner and moment. The key in both cases is that we who…

This prayer was in the ancient L.S. Engolismensis. It didn’t survive the Consilium for the newer missal. Subdo is “to put, place, set, or lay under; to bring under, subject, subdue”. After Mary and Joseph found the young Jesus in the Temple, Our Lord went with them and was “subject” them (Luke 2:51). Subdo is used to describe also the…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Friday after Ash Wednesday

feria · Violet · Lent · Year B

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Commentary for this day

Post CommunionFeb 27, 2009

WDTPRS Friday after Ash Wednesday – Post communionem (2002MR)

EM: Quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut, huius participatione mysterii a delictis omnibus expiati, remediis tuae pietatis aptemur.
Literal rendering

We beseech You, Almighty God, that, having made satisfaction for all trespasses, by the participation of this mystery, we may be made properly disposed for the remedies of Your mercy.

WDTPRS Friday after Ash Wednesday – Post communionem (2002MR) I am not sure about the origin of this prayer. It seems to be comprised of prayers in ancient sacramentaries, such as the Gelasian and Veronese and the Hadrianum and Paduense manuscripts of the Gregorian. I don’t think it was in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum.

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Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 23, 2007

Friday after Ash Wednesday: Super Oblata

Sacrificium, Domine, observantiae quadragesimalis offerimus, quod tibi, quaesumus, mentes nostras reddat acceptas, et continentiae promptioris nobis tribuat facultatem.
Literal rendering

We are offering, O Lord, the Sacrifice of the Lenten observance, which, we beseech You, may render our minds acceptable to You, and may impart to us the grace of a more ready continence. Since the Fall, we all suffer temptations which are mainly of the spirit and mainly of the flesh. Both affect our whole person, since we are both body and soul which are intended by God to form one person. Thus we want our thoughts and motions of the mind to be properly disposed and directed for our overall human/spiritual well-being and we want those motions of the flesh and its urgings to be well under control so that our human/spiritual well-being is not threatened.

We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s Both the grand Lewis and Short as well as Blaise/Dumas indicate that acceptus is not just "accepted" but "welcome, acceptable, agreeable". Blaise/Dumas says that in liturgical Latin facultas is "possibility" or also "grace" as in f. sufficiens. In classical Latin facultas already as the connotation of sufficiency.…

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CollectMar 3, 2006

Friday after Ash Wednesday

Inchoata paenitentiae opera, quaesumus, Domine, benigno favore prosequere, ut observantiam, quam corporaliter exercemus, mentibus etiam valeamus implere sinceris.
Literal rendering

O Lord, we beseech You, follow up with kind good will on the works of penance which have just commenced, so that we may be able to fulfill dutifully the religious observance which we are now carrying out corporally also with sound consideration. Sure, if you want you can do it this way:

COLLECT: Inchoata paenitentiae opera, quaesumus, Domine, benigno favore prosequere, ut observantiam, quam corporaliter exercemus, mentibus etiam valeamus implere sinceris. An observantia is "an obedient observance; a keeping, following, performing of laws, customs" which also has a juridical/religious over tone: "an observance of religious duties, divine worship, religion". The Theodosian Code uses observantia in this sense, as does the Vulgate. So,…

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From 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectFeb 5, 2022

WDTPRS – 5th Sunday after Epiphany & 5th Ordinary Sunday: A clarion clear call

Familiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine, continua pietate custodi, ut, quae in sola spe gratiae caelestis innititur, tua semper protectione muniatur.
Literal rendering

Guard Your family, we beseech You, O Lord, with continual mercy, so that that (family) which is propping itself up upon the sole hope of heavenly grace may always be defended by Your protection.

This Sunday is another liturgical unicorn, that rarity of coinciding prayers in the Vetus and Novus Ordo. This Sunday’s Collect is the same in the pre-Conciliar, 1962 Missal for the 5th Sunday after Epiphany and in the new-fangled Missal that the Council Fathers didn’t mandate and couldn’t have imagined when they voted for Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Novus Ordo of Paul…

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Also posted: Feb 3, 2017 · Feb 7, 2010 · Feb 4, 2007

Post CommunionFeb 4, 2007

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (2)

• Rom 12:5: ita multi unum corpus sumus in Christo singuli autem alter alterius membra • 1 Cor 10:17: quoniam unus panis unum corpus multi sumus omnes quidem de uno pane participamur • 1 Cor 11:28: probet autem se ipsum homo et sic de pane illo edat et de calice bibat • John 15:16: non vos me elegistis sed ego elegi vos et posui vos ut eatis et fructum adferatis et fructus vester maneat ut quodcumque petieritis Patrem in nomine meo det vobis • John 17:11: et iam non sum in mundo et hii in mundo sunt et ego ad te venio Pater sancte serva eos in nomine tuo quos dedisti mihi ut sint unum sicut et nos • John…
Literal rendering

O God, who desired that we be participants of the one bread and one chalice, grant us, we beg, so to live that, having been made one in Christ, we, rejoicing, may bear fruit for the salvation of the world. Holy Communion is both an outward sign and an interior cause of our union with Christ, as members of His Mystical Body the Church. During the Last Supper, Christ prayed to the Father before instituting the sacraments of the Eucharist and Holy Orders. Then He went out to His Passion and Sacrifice. He prayed: “…that they may all be one (ut omnes unum sint). As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in…

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 We have seen in the last few weeks another call from “the Chair” of the USCCB’s BCL (Bishops Committee on Liturgy) to keep the new translation being prepared “unchallenging” enough that it would raise neither…

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CollectApr 2, 2006

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (2)

Quaesumus, Domine Deus noster, ut in illa caritate, qua Filius tuus diligens mundum morti se tradidit, inveniamur ipsi, te opitulante, alacriter ambulantes.
Literal rendering

O Lord our God, we beg that, You assisting us, we ourselves may be found walking swiftly in that selfsame sacrificial love by which Your Son, loving the world, handed Himself over to death.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 5th Sunday of Lent – Station: St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 Some of your feedback. About the article on Latin studies now online on the website of The Wanderer, Fr. SB writes: “I recently read your article about learning…

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Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 12, 2006

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Super oblata (2)

Domine Deus noster qui has potius creaturas ad fragilitatis nostrae subsidium condidisti, tribue, quaesumus, ut etiam aeternitatis nobis fiant sacramentum.
Literal rendering

O Lord our God, who made these creatures above all others unto a support of our frailty, grant, we beseech Thee, that they may become for us the sacrament also of eternity.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time Once upon a time, papal documents were composed in Latin. The Pope would either write them himself or provide points which his Latin secretaries would then draft and polish. For example, when Leo XIII (+1903) wrote his milestone Rerum novarum (1891) the composition was entirely in Latin. The notebooks…

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Post CommunionFeb 5, 2006

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post Communion

Deus, qui nos de uno pane et de uno calice participes esse voluisti, da nobis, quaesumus, ita vivere, ut, unum in Christo effecti, fructum afferamus pro mundi salute gaudentes.
Literal rendering

O God, who desired that we be participants of the one bread and one chalice, grant us, we beg, so to live that, having been made one in Christ, we, rejoicing, may bear fruit for the salvation of the world.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 5th Sunday in of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in February 2003 Treasures arrived this week! I mean letters from you readers, of course. A veritable stack of them arrived, most in handwritten form. Since they all dated to September/October 2002, I think the editor found a pile that had not been…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere