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Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Monday of the 4th week of Advent

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From 4th Sunday of Advent

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

CollectDec 22, 2024

WDTPRS: Collect 4th Sunday of Advent (Vetus Ordo) – “What our sins are obstructing”.

Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni: et magna nobis virtute succurre; ut, per auxilium gratiae tuae, quod nostra peccata praepediunt, indulgentia tuae propitiationis acceleret.
Literal rendering

Rouse up Your power, O Lord, we beseech You, and come: and hasten to aid us with your great might, so that, through the help of Your grace, what our sins are hindering the indulgence of Your merciful favor may make swift.

This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and other sacramentaries. It survived in edited form in the Novus Ordo on Thursday of the 1st week of Advent. Praepedio means “to entangle the feet or other parts of the body; to shackle, bind, fetter”, and therefore “to hinder, obstruct, impede”. Something is placed “before” (prae) the “foot” (pes), which makes…

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Also posted: Dec 18, 2016 · Dec 21, 2008

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Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Monday of the 4th week of Advent

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CollectDec 20, 2025

WDTPRS The O Antiphons: 20 December – O Clavis David – The Key to everything

O clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel: qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris.

We continue our look at the O Antiphons with today’s O Clavis David Again we hear the theme of Christ as the Liberator. LATIN: O clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel: qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: veni, et educ vinctum de domo carceris, sedentem in tenebris. ENGLISH: O Key of David, and scepter of the house…

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Also posted: Dec 20, 2022 · Dec 20, 2020 · Dec 20, 2019

CollectDec 20, 2011

WDTPRS: Last Days of Advent: 20 December – “ineffable Word”

Deus, aeterna maiestas, cuius ineffabile Verbum, Angelo nuntiante, Virgo immaculata suscepit, et, domus divinitatis effecta, Santi Spiritus luce repletur, quaesumus, ut nos, eius exemplo, voluntati tuae humiliter adhaerere valeamus.
Literal rendering

O God, eternal majesty, whose ineffable Word, received by the Immaculate Virgin as the angel was announcing, and, having been made the house of divinity, was filled with the light of the Holy Spirit, we implore, that we, by her example, may be able to cleave humbly to Your will.

Today’s Collect, as we move solemnly through the last days of Advent, once again underscores the dimension of the mystery of the approach Feast more than it emphasizes the penitential spirit we adopt during this season. As with the other Collects in this period, this prayer is based on a text from the Rotulus of Ravenna, which is published with…

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Also posted: Dec 20, 2008 · Dec 20, 2007

CollectDec 20, 2006

Last Days of Advent: 20 December

Deus, cuius ineffabile Verbum, Angelo nuntiante, Virgo immaculata suscepit, et, domus divinitatis effecta, Sancti Spiritus luce repletur, quaesumus, ut nos, eius exemplo, voluntati tuae humiliter adhaerere valeamus.
Literal rendering

O God, whose ineffable Word the immaculate Virgin took up when the herald Angel was speaking, and, having been made the dwelling of divinity, was filled with the light of the Holy Spirit, we beseech You, that, by her example, we may be able humbly to adhere to Your will. In this prayer we taking a moment to look back to the moment of the Incarnation, which made the Coming to light of the Incarnate Word possible for us.

Here is the Collect for 20 December, during this period of intense prayer and longing for the Lord’s Coming. This is from Rotulus 30 published together with the Veronese Sacramentary. It is not in any previous edition of the Missale Romanum. LITERAL VERSION: O God, whose ineffable Word the immaculate Virgin took up when the herald Angel was speaking, and,…

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From 4th Sunday of Advent

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

CollectDec 22, 2018

WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Advent: “Crede ut intellegas! Believe that you may understand!”

Gratiam tuam, quaesumus Domine, mentibus nostris infunde, ut qui, Angelo nuntiante, Christi Filii tui incarnationem cognovimus, per passionem eius et crucem ad resurrectionis gloriam perducamur.
Literal rendering

We beg You, O Lord, pour Your grace into our minds and hearts, so that we who came to know the incarnation of Christ Your Son in the moment the Angel was heralding the news, may be guided through His Passion and Cross to the glory of the resurrection.

Let’s view the Collect in the Novus Ordo for the 4th Sunday of Advent, which is also the Post Communion for the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (1962MR). The Annunciation was the moment of the Incarnation of our Lord.

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Also posted: Dec 17, 2016 · Dec 18, 2015 · Dec 24, 2006

CollectDec 21, 2008

WDTPRS – 4th Sunday of Advent (2002MR)

Sumpto pignore redemptionis aeternae, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus, ut quanto magis dies salutiferae festivitatis accedit, tanto devotius proficiamus ad Filii tui digne nativitatis mysterium celebrandum.
Literal rendering

We beg You, O Lord, pour Your grace into our minds and hearts, so that we who came to know the incarnation of Christ Your Son in the moment the Angel was heralding the news, may be guided through His Passion and Cross to the glory of the resurrection. Carefully note that Angelo nuntiante is an ablative absolute, hard to render in English without using a paraphrase. The participle nuntiante is in the present tense, or better, in a tense “contemporary” with the time of the verb cognovimus having a past tense. Thus, in the very moment the Angel was heralding the good news, we (collectively in the shepherds) knew about how God the Son Eternal took our whole human…

Today’s Collect is the Post-communion of the Feast of the Annunciation (25 March) in the 1962MR. Most of you who recite the Angelus know this prayer. This time we also get the WDTPRS version since we want to know what the prayer really says. This is also the prayer said traditionally after the Alma Redemptoris Mater, sung following Compline during…

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Also posted: Dec 23, 2007

CollectDec 21, 2008

WDTPRS 4th Sunday of Advent 1962MR

Excita, quaesumus, Domine, potentiam tuam, et veni: et magna nobis virtute succurre; ut, per auxilium gratiae tuae, quod nostra peccata praepediunt, indulgentia tuae propitiationis acceleret.
Literal rendering

Rouse up Your power, O Lord, we beseech You, and come: and hasten to aid us with your great might, so that, through the help of Your grace, what our sins are hindering the indulgence of Your merciful favor may make swift.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday of Advent – Roman Station: Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles This prayer was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and other sacramentaries. It survived in edited form in the Novus Ordo on Thursday of the 1st week of Advent.

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Prayer over the OfferingsDec 24, 2006

4th Sunday of Advent: SUPER OBLATA (2)

Altari tuo, Domine, superposita munera Spiritus ille sanctificet, qui beatae Mariae viscera sua virtute replevit.
Literal rendering

O Lord, may the Spirit Himself, who by His power made full the womb of blessed Mary, sanctify the gifts placed upon Your altar.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday of Advent – Roman Station: Basilica of the Twelve Holy Apostles ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2005 On 5 December I attended the annual conference on sacred music held by the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments (CDWDS). His Eminence the Prefect, Francis Cardinal Arinze, presided and outgoing,…

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Post CommunionDec 24, 2006

4th Sunday of Advent: POST COMMUNION (2)

Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine, Unigeniti Filii tui recensita nativitate vegetari, cuius caelesti mysterio pascimur et potamur.
Literal rendering

Now that the pledge of eternal redemption has been consumed, we beg, almighty God, that by however so much more the day of the saving festivity is approaching, by that same degree we may more devoutly make progress toward celebrating worthily the mystery of the nativity of your Son.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday of Advent – Station: Twelve Apostles & Vigil of Christmas ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 I am sure people are forgetting to remember that there was in Rome a Synod of Bishops about the Eucharist well over a year ago. Pope Benedict XVI presided after cutting the schedule by a…

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