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Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

III class · Violet

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Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 20, 2010

WDTPRS – Saturday after Ash Wednesday – Prayer over the people (1962MR)

ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (1962MR): Fideles tui, Deus, per tua dona firmentur: ut éadem et percipiendo requirant, et quaerendo sine fine percipiant. Glorious.

Today’s "Prayer over the people" in the 1962 Missale Romanum is also the Postcommunion of Septuagesima Sunday. In an ancient variation we find per[pe]tua, turning “by means of your…” into “perpetual”. That éadem (neuter plural to go with dona, “gifts”) is the object of both of the subjunctive verbs which live in another et…et construction. Requiro means “to seek or…

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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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Also posted: Feb 10, 2024 · Feb 19, 2023 · Feb 13, 2010 · Feb 21, 2009 · Feb 3, 2008

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

Saturday after Ash Wednesday

feria · Violet · Lent · Year B

Readings at USCCB ↗

Commentary for this day

CollectMar 12, 2011

WDTPRS – Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, infirmitatem nostram propitius respice, atque ad protegendum nos dexteram tuae maiestatis extende.

Today’s Collect was in the ancient Veronese and Gelasian Sacramentaries, and so it represents the best of the liturgical tradition of the early Church in Rome, formed out of the cultural, intellectual, spiritual milieu of the era. There is an elegance to these ancient prayers which hard to capture in English without resorting to nearly archaic forms. However, archaic forms…

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Also posted: Mar 4, 2006

CollectFeb 20, 2010

WDTPRS – Saturday after Ash Wednesday – Prayer over the people (2002MR)

ORATIO SUPER POPULUM (2002MR): Adesto, Domine, benignus populo tuo, qui sacra mysteria contigerit, ut nullis periculis affligatur, qui in te protectorem confidit.
Literal rendering

O Lord, kindly be present to Your people, who have touched upon/partaken of the sacred mysteries, so that it (they), who relies on You as protector, may be afflicted by no dangers.

A great new feature of the 2002 Missale Romanum in Latin is that for Lent the "Prayer over the people" or Oratio super populum has been revived as an option. This is a step in the right direction, to be sure. Let’s have a look at today’s:

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Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 24, 2007

Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Super Oblata

Suscipe, quaesumus, Domine, sacrificium placationis et laudis, et praesta, ut, huius operatione mundati, beneplacitum tibi nostrae mentis offeramus affectum.
Literal rendering

Accept, we entreat You, O Lord, the sacrifice of appeasment and of praise, and grant, that cleansed by this grace filled action, we may offer the well-pleasing disposition of our soul.

We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s This prayer had its forerunner in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for feria vii (Saturday) in Quinquagesima. This reminds is that this week was in ancient time before the beginning of Lent which really began on Sunday. The prayer was also in the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum for Saturday…

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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