Wednesday, April 5, 2028

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…

Also posted: Apr 13, 2011 · Apr 5, 2006

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…

Also posted: Mar 26, 2023

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

5th Sunday of Ordinary Time: Collect (2)