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Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

III class · Violet

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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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Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Thursday after Ash Wednesday

feria · Violet · Lent · Year C

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Commentary for this day

CollectMar 10, 2011

WDTPRS – Thursday after Ash Wednesday – God crowns His own merits in us

Actiones nostras, quaesumus, Domine, aspirando praeveni et adiuvando prosequere, ut cuncta nostra operatio a te semper incipiat, et per te coepta finiatur.
Literal rendering

We beg You, O Lord, by instilling them anticipate our actions, and by helping follow up on them, so that our every service always begins from You, and what was begun is brought to conclusion through You. This subtle prayer cuts two ways. The words actio and operatio, conceptually related “doing” connected to the verbs ago and operor, both have a connotation of sacred liturgical service. At the same time, they can simply point to our own daily undertakings. These layers of meaning overlap and show us how there must be a continuity between how we participate at Holy Mass and how we act outside of the sacred precincts of the church or chapel we frequent. The highest form of…

Where does today’s Collect come from? It is present in the Hadrianum and Paduense manuscripts of the so-called “Gregorian Sacramentary“. “But Father! But Father!”, I am sure you say all the time. “What on earth is that?”. The Roman usage over a couple centuries had an influence on Gallican (French) practice. This blending of rites was superseded when the Emperor…

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Also posted: Mar 2, 2006

Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 22, 2007

Thursday after Ash Wednesday: Super Oblata

Hostias, quaesumus, Domine, propitius intende, quas sacris altaribus exhibemus, ut, nobis indulgentiam largiendo, tuo nomini dent honorem.
Literal rendering

O Lord, we entreat You, look favorably upon the victim offerings, which we are presenting at the sacred altars, so that, by lavishing pardon upon us, they may give honor to Your Name. Interesting is the plural for "altars". This is probably a stylistic use of the plural influence by the sacrificial language of the Hebrews. The Temple had two altars, one of burnt offerings or holocausts and the other for incense. For us, however, we can draw an additional wrinkle of meaning from the plural.

We continue our Lenten journey through the prayers of Holy Mass with today’s SUPER OBLATA: Hostias, quaesumus, Domine, propitius intende, quas sacris altaribus exhibemus, ut, nobis indulgentiam largiendo, tuo nomini dent honorem. This prayer comes from ancient times. It is in the Gelasian and Veronese Sacramentaries as well as pre-Conciliar editions of the Missale Romanum on the 12th Sunday after…

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From 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time

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

CollectMar 2, 2019

WDTPRS – 8th Ordinary Sunday: The “Barque of Peter” on turbulent seas

Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine, ut et mundi cursus pacifico nobis tuo ordine dirigatur, et Ecclesia tua tranquilla devotione laetetur.
Literal rendering

Grant us, we beg, O Lord, both that the course of the world be set by your methodical peace producing plan for us and that your Church may be made joyful by means of tranquil devotion.

Let us has a swift look at the Collect for the upcoming 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time. This formulary doesn’t present itself each year because of the vagaries of the Moon. This year, in the Ordinary Form, there are more “green” Sundays than usual before Ash Wednesday ushers in Lent. In the Extraordinary Form, the traditional form, this Sunday is…

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Also posted: Feb 27, 2006

Prayer over the OfferingsFeb 27, 2006

8th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Super Oblata (2)

Deus, qui offerenda tuo nomini tribuis, et oblata devotioni nostrae servitutis ascribis, quaesumus clementiam tuam, ut, quod praestas unde sit meritum, proficere nobis largiaris ad praemium.
Literal rendering

After the supper was concluded, in a similar way taking into His holy and venerable hands also this noble chalice, in like manner giving thanks to You He blessed and He gave it to His disciples, saying: All of you receive and drink from this: for this is the chalice of my Blood of the new and eternal covenant, which will be poured out abundantly on your behalf and on the behalf of multitudes for the remission of sins. Do this for my remembrance. 1st NEW ICEL DRAFT: In the same way, when supper was ended, taking also this noble cup into his holy and venerable hands, once more giving you thanks, he blessed and gave it to his disciples,…

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 8th Sunday of Ordinary Time ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2006 Let’s continue our comparison of the first draft of the ICEL translation of ordinary prayers of Holy Mass, the second draft, and our own WDTPRS version which we worked through in fourth year of this series (2003-04). We have reached the Roman…

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Post CommunionFeb 27, 2006

8th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Post Communion

Satiati munere salutari, tuam, Domine, misericordiam deprecamur, ut, hoc eodem quo nos temporaliter vegetas sacramento, perpetuae vitae participes benignus efficias.
Literal rendering

Having been filled to satiety with the saving gift, we beg, O Lord, your mercy, that by means of that same sacrament by which you are enlivening us now for a time, you will kindly make us participants of life everlasting.

What Does the Prayer Really Say? 8th Sunday in of Ordinary Time (or Quinquagesima) ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 GJB, who clearly picked up my play on words with the “Big Apple” and Callimachus’ adage about the “mega kakon” hollers from the hollers via e-mail: “I’m just a country boy who loves the back roads and hollers of…

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The same prayer, discussed elsewhere