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Wednesday, February 2, 2028

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

II class · White

Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 2, 2024

WDTPRS – Candlemas: Purification of the BVM & Presentation of Our Lord

Domine Iesu Christe, lux vera, quae illuminas omnem hominem venientem in hunc mundum: effunde bene+dictionem tuam super hos cereos, et sancti+fica eos lumine gratiae tuae, et concede propitius; ut, sicut haec luminaria igne visibili accensa nocturnas depellunt tenebras; ita corda nostra invisibili igne, id est, Sancti Spiritus splendore illustrata, omnium vitiorum caecitate careant: ut, purgato mentis oculo, ea cernere possimus, quae tibi sunt placita, et nostrae saluti utilia; quatenus, post huius saeculi caliginosa discrimina, ad lucem indeficientem pervenire mereamur. Per te, Christe Iesu, Salvator mundi, qui in Trinitate perfecta vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. R. Amen.

Today is the final “peak” arising from the liturgical cycle of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany. Today, called in the traditional way and according to the older Roman calendar the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Church would cease to sing the Marian antiphon associated with Christmas,

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From 4th Sunday after Epiphany

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

CollectJan 29, 2023

WDTPRS – 4th Sunday after Epiphany: YOU, weary foot soldier of the Church Militant

Deus, qui nos in tantis periculis constitutos pro humana scis fragilitate non posse subsistere: da nobis salutem mentis et corporis; ut ea, quae pro peccatis nostris patimur, te adiuvante vincamus.
Literal rendering

O God, You who know that we, set in such great dangers, are not able to hold out because of human fragility: grant us health of mind and body; so that, You helping us, we may vanquish those things which we suffer on account of our sins

This Collect sometimes winds up at the end of the liturgical year, depending on when Easter, and therefore Pentecost, falls. This year, because Easter is a little later, we have it before Septuagesima (next week… already). I found this prayer in the Hadrianum, Augustodunensis, and the Liber sacramentorum Romanae ecclesiae ordine excarpsus.

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Also posted: Nov 2, 2008

Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 1, 2009

WDTPRS: 4th Sunday after Epiphany – SECRET (1962MR)

Concede, quaesumus, omnipotens Deus: ut huius sacrificii munus oblatum fragilitatem nostram ab omni malo purget semper et muniat
Literal rendering

Grant, we beg, Almighty God: that the gift of this Sacrifice offered up may always purge our frailness from every evil and secure it.

Here is part of a piece I wrote for the weekly The Wanderer. In the traditional Roman calendar this is the Season after Epiphany, called in the typical edition of the 1962 Missale Romanum the “Tempus per annum ante Septuagesimam… Time through the year before Septuagesima”. On Monday 2 February, forty days after Christmas, we observe the feast of the…

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Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Presentation of the Lord

feast · White · Ordinary Time · Year C

Commentary for this day

CollectFeb 2, 2016

WDTPRS: Presentation – “the substance of our flesh”

Deus, qui in hodierna die unigenitus tuus in nostra carne quam adsumpsit pro nobis in templo est praesentatus, praesta, ut quem redemptorem nostrum laeti suscipimus, uenientem quoque iudicem securi videamus: …
Literal rendering

Almighty and everlasting God, we humbly beseech Your majesty, that, just as Your only-begotten Son was on this day in the substance of our flesh, presented in the temple, so too You may cause us, once our minds have been purified, to be presented unto You.

Forty days (there’s that number again) out from the Feast of the Nativity we come to the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, called also the Purification of Mary as well as the Feast of Meeting by some of our Eastern brethren. Today is also called “Candlemas”, for we bless candles and light them against the darkness. And today…

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Also posted: Feb 2, 2011 · Feb 2, 2006

CollectFeb 2, 2015

WDTPRS: Candlemas

Domine Iesu Christe, lux vera, quae illuminas omnem hominem venientem in hunc mundum: effunde bene+dictionem tuam super hos cereos, et sancti+fica eos lumine gratiae tuae, et concede propitius; ut, sicut haec luminaria igne visibili accensa nocturnas depellunt tenebras; ita corda nostra invisibili igne, id est, Sancti Spiritus splendore illustrata, omnium vitiorum caecitate careant: ut, purgato mentis oculo, ea cernere possimus, quae tibi sunt placita, et nostrae saluti utilia; quatenus, post huius saeculi caliginosa discrimina, ad lucem indeficientem pervenire mereamur. Per te, Christe Iesu, Salvator mundi, qui in Trinitate perfecta vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. R. Amen.

Today is the final “peak” arising from the liturgical cycle of Advent/Christmas/Epiphany. Today, called in the traditional way and according to the older Roman calendar the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Church would cease to sing the Marian antiphon associated with Christmas,

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Also posted: Feb 2, 2013

From 4th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectJan 27, 2018

WDTPRS – 4th Ordinary Sunday: Billy loves bugs

Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut [et (in Ver.)] te tota mente veneremur, et omnes homines rationabili diligamus affectu.
Literal rendering

Grant us, O Lord our God, that we may venerate you with our whole mind, and may love all men with rational good-will.

Today’s Collect prayer for the 4th Ordinary Sunday (it’s Septuagesima in the traditional calendar) was not in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum but it does have its origin in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary. Were you to hear this prayer intoned in Latin, or at least in an accurate translation, you would be thereby transported back 1500 years to…

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Also posted: Jan 29, 2011 · Jan 31, 2010 · Jan 28, 2007 · Jan 26, 2006

Post CommunionJan 28, 2007

4th Sunday of Ordinary Time: POST COMMUNION (2)

Redemptionis nostrae munere vegetati, quaesumus, Domine, ut hoc perpetuae salutis auxilio fides semper vera proficiat.

What Does The Prayer Really Say? 4th Sunday In Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2007 I had a lovely experience. I went for supper with a priest and 13 sisters visiting Rome. The Sister Servants of the Eternal Word told me they pray every day in their community for accurate…

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Also posted: Jan 26, 2006

Prayer over the OfferingsJan 26, 2006

4th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Super oblata (1)

Altaribus tuis, Domine, munera nostrae servitutis inferimus, quae, placatus assumens, sacramentum nostrae redemptionis efficias.
Literal rendering

We are bringing in to place upon your altars, O Lord, the gifts of our service, which, having been appeased and as you take them up, you make into the sacrament of our redemption.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January of 2002 Before we begin, I have a some proof that there are indeed readers of WDTPRS west of the mighty Mississippi. JFW of UT writes by snail-mail: “Your column is really a shot in the arm, but it indirectly reinforces my…

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CollectJan 26, 2006

4th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (1)

LATIN (1970 Missale Romanum) Concede nobis, Domine Deus noster, ut te tota mente veneremur, et omnes homines rationabili diligamus affectu.
Literal rendering

Grant us, O Lord our God, that we may venerate you with our whole mind, and may love all men with rational good-will. We are asking God to permit us, to allow us as a great gift and favor granted, to “venerate” God with our whole mind. This veneror, as the great Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary provides, has a deeply religious connotation and means, “to reverence with religious awe, to worship, adore, revere, venerate… to do homage.” Think of its use in the well-known Tantum Ergo, which describes us as cernui, “heads bowed to the ground.” To “venerate” as we should, it will be necessary to seek to know Him for we are to do this with our “whole…

What Does the Prayer Really Say? Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January 2001 ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN THE WANDERER in January 2001 This prayer comes in a time when we see in the newsworthy activities being covered by the media that love of God and neighbor should be prayed for with great and intense fervor.…

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