Wednesday, March 17, 2027

PRAYERCAzT: The Lorica of St. Patrick

Ad Temoriam hodie potentia Dei me dirigat, Potestas Dei me conservet, Sapientia Dei me edoceat, Oculus Dei mihi provideat, Auris Dei me exaudiat, Verbum Dei me disertum faciat, Manus Dei me protegat, Via Dei mihi patefiat, Scutum Dei me protegat, Exercitus Dei me defendat, Contra insidias daemonum, Contra illecebras vitiorum, Contra inclinationes animi, Contra omnem hominem qui meditetur injuriam mihi, Procul et prope, Cum paucis et cum multis.

The Latin word loríca (note the accent… lo-REE-ka) means “a leather cuirass; a defense of any kind; a breastwork, parapet”. In effect, it means “armor”. It has come to be associated with a prayer attributed to St. Patrick (+ 5th c.) . “Loríca” is also association with an rhythmic invocation or prayer especially for protection as when going into battle.

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WDTPRS Wednesday 5th Week of Lent: “a gracious hearing when they cry out to you”

Sanctificata per paenitentiam tuorum corda filiorum, Deus miserator, illustra, et, quibus praestas devotionis affectum, praebe supplicantibus pium benignus auditum.

Please use the sharing buttons! Fr. Bugnini’s cutters and pasters, the experts of the Consilium, drew today’s Collect out of a prayer in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary for the Saturday (Feria VII, yes, 7th – unusual to our eyes ) of the Fifth Week of Lent. In the pre-Conciliar Missale Romanum this was a prayer for Wednesday in Passiontide. In…

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PRAYERCAzT: The Lorica of St. Patrick

The Latin word loríca means “a leather cuirass; a defense of any kind; a breastwork, parapet”. In effect, it means “armor”. It has come to be associated with a prayer attributed to St. Patrick (+ 5th c.) . “Loríca” is also association with an rhythmic invocation or prayer especially for protection as when going into battle.

WDTPRS – 5th Sunday of Lent: The Church, liturgically dying

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

Traditionally this upcoming Sunday is called First Passion Sunday or First Sunday of the Passion. “Passiontide” begins. It is also known as Iudica Sunday, from the first word of the Introit of Mass (from Ps 42/41), and sometimes Repus (from repositus analogous to absconditus, “hidden”) because crosses and other images in churches are to be veiled. From today, in the…

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

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (2)