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Tuesday, April 4, 2028

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Tuesday of Passion Week

III class · Violet

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No WDTPRS commentary is linked to this day yet.

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saint Isidore of Seville, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

commemoration · Violet · Lent · Year C

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Commentary for this day

CollectMar 27, 2012

WDTPRS Tuesday 5th Week of Lent: bittersweet

Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine, perseverantem in tua voluntate famulatum, ut in diebus nostris et merito et numero populus tibi serviens augeatur.
Literal rendering

Grant us, we beg, O Lord, persevering service in Your will, so that in our days the people serving You may be increased both in merit and in number.

In the Tridentinum and in the 1962 Roman Missal this prayer is listed for Tuesday after Passion Sunday as the Oratio super populum. It also has roots in the Gelasian. The verb famulor gives us famulatus, which in the Lewis & Short means “servitude, slavery”. In Blaise/Chirat there is an additional meaning, which is predictable, “service de Dieu, dévotion” attested…

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Also posted: Apr 12, 2011 · Apr 4, 2006

From 5th Sunday of Lent

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

CollectMar 21, 2026

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.
Literal rendering

O Lord our God, we beg that, You assisting us, we ourselves may be found walking swiftly in that selfsame sacrificial love by which Your Son, loving the world, handed Himself over to death.

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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Also posted: Mar 26, 2023

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere