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Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Ember Saturday of Lent

II class · Violet

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Commentary for this day

CollectMar 19, 2011

WDTPRS – Ember Saturday in Lent – (1962MR)

Deus, qui tribus pueris mitigasti flammas ignium: concede propitius; ut nos famulos tuos non exurat flamma vitiorum.
Literal rendering

O God, who tamed the flames of the fires for the three young men, mercifully grant that the flame of vices not consume us your servants.

There are several Collects in today’s extended edition of Holy Mass for Ember Saturday. There are five lessons before we even get to the Epistle and each lesson is followed by a Gradual and Collect. After the the fifth lesson, the same as that for Ember Saturday of Advent (in case anyone doubted that Advent is a penitential season) about…

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Also posted: Feb 27, 2010

From 1st Sunday of Lent

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

CollectFeb 25, 2023

WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Lent (TLM): our season of transforming mystery

Deus, qui Ecclesiam tuam annua quadragesimali observatione purificas: praesta familiae tuae; ut, quod a te obtinere abstinendo nititur, hoc bonis operibus exsequatur.
Literal rendering

O God, who purify Your Church by means of the annual forty-day Lenten observance: grant to Your family; that, what it strives to obtain from You by abstaining, may be achieved by good works.

With this 1st Sunday of Lent we are fully into our forty day season of purification and preparation. Speaking of forty, the Latin for Lent is Quadragesima, “fortieth”. St Leo the Great (d 461) used the phrase quadragesimale ieiunium, “the Forty Fast”, for Lent. English “Lent” comes from Old English lencten for “spring”.

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Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saturday of the 1st week of Lent

feria · Violet · Lent · Year B

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Commentary for this day

Post CommunionMar 7, 2009

WDTPRS: Saturday 1st Week of Lent – Post communionem (2002MR)

Literal rendering

O Lord, with perpetual good will follow up on those whom you are refreshing by means of the divine mystery, and accompany with saving consolations those whom you have imbued with heavenly things that were instituted.

We continue our project of looking at the Post communions of Lent: Saturday – 1st Week of Lent There is something pretty outrageous to note about this day’s prayer. Read to the end. This prayer is found in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary on "Feria septima" of Lent, the 7th day of Lent. In the Veronese this prayer is found among…

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CollectMar 3, 2007

Saturday in the 1st Week of Lent

Haec quae nos reparent, quaesumus, Domine, beata mysteria suo nos munere dignos efficiant.
Literal rendering

We beseech You, O Lord, let these holy sacramental mysteries which are renewing us, render us worthy of their gift. We are really never "worthy" of the Blessed Sacrament in ourselves. God makes us worthy by sharing with us His own worthiness. As St. Augustine said, God crowns His own merits in us. However, because of our intimate bond with Him, by His incarnation and our baptism, what He gives us is truly ours. So, we can say that we can be worthy to receive the Blessed Sacrament so long as we are in harmony with what God offers us through our vocations, and through what is incumbent on us as members of the Church Christ built upon the Rock…

We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s SUPER OBLATA: Haec quae nos reparent, quaesumus, Domine, beata mysteria suo nos munere dignos efficiant. This was not in any edition of the Missale Romanum before the post-Conciliar reforms. It has roots in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary.

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From 1st Sunday of Lent

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

CollectFeb 25, 2023

WDTPRS – 1st Sunday of Lent (N.O.): our season of transforming mystery

Concede nobis, omnipotens Deus, ut, per annua quadragesimalis exercitia sacramenti, et ad intellegendum Christi proficiamus arcanum, et effectus eius digna conversatione sectemur.
Literal rendering

Grant to us, Almighty God, that, through the annual exercises of the forty-day Lenten mystery, we may both make progress in understanding the hidden dimension of Christ and imitate the consequences by worthy conduct of life.

The Roman Station for the 1st Sunday of Lent is St. John Lateran. COLLECT – LATIN TEXT (2002MR): Quadragesima is the Latin word for the season of Lent, literally “fortieth” (from quadraginta “forty”) for the fortieth weekday before Easter (Ash Wednesday). In Souter’s A Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D., we find quadragesimalis is the adjective form for “forty”…

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Also posted: Mar 5, 2006 · Mar 5, 2006

CollectFeb 25, 2007

1st Sunday of Lent

Caelesti pane refecti, quo fides alitur, spes provehitur et caritas roboratur, quaesumus, Domine, ut ipsum, qui est panis vivus et verus, esurire discamus, et in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore tuo, vivere valeamus.
Literal rendering

Having been renewed by heavenly bread, by which faith is nourished, hope advanced and charity strengthened, we entreat You, O Lord, that we may learn to hunger for Him who is bread living and true, and that we may be able to live by every word which proceeds from Your mouth.

HEBDOMADA PRIMA IN QUADRAGESIMA – 1st WEEK OF LENT 5) Dominica I in Quadragesima – 1st Sunday of Lent a) Collect (article from 2001) b) Super oblata (article from 2002) c) Post Communion (article from 2003) d) Collect (article from 2005) e) Super oblata (article from 2006)

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Prayer over the OfferingsMar 5, 2006

1st Sunday of Lent – SUPER OBLATA (2)

Fac nos, quaesumus, Domine, his muneribus offerendis convenienter aptari, quibus ipsius venerabilis sacramenti celebramus exordium.
Literal rendering

Make us fit, we beg, O Lord, for offering in a suitable manner these gifts, by which we celebrate the beginning of this venerable season of mystery.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 1st Sunday of Lent – Roman Station: Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior – “St. John Lateran” ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 Hurtling in its orbit about the Sun the spinning globe of our planet Earth has with its partner the Moon whirled us again in their delicate lavolta to the season…

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Post CommunionMar 5, 2006

1st Sunday of Lent – POST COMMUNION

Caelesti pane refecti, quo fides alitur, spes provehitur et caritas roboratur, quaesumus, Domine, ut ipsum, qui est panis vivus et verus, esurire discamus, et in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore tuo, vivere valeamus.
Literal rendering

Having been renewed by heavenly bread, by which faith is nourished, hope advanced and charity strengthened, we beseech, O Lord, that we may learn to hunger for Him, who is the bread living and true, and we may be able to live, by every word which proceeds from thy mouth.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 1st Sunday of Lent – Station: St. John Lateran ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 As the seasons change and the world whirls its course through the cosmos, we return now to the beginning of the liturgical cycle of Lent and Easter. As is proper before a great feast the Church gives us…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere