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Saturday, April 8, 2028

Vetus Ordo · 1962 Missale Romanum · 2020 USA calendar

Saturday of Passion Week

III class · Violet

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No WDTPRS commentary is linked to this day yet.

Novus Ordo · 2002 Missale Romanum

Saturday of the 5th week of Lent

feria · Violet · Lent · Year C

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Commentary for this day

CollectApr 16, 2011

WDTPRS: Saturday in the 5th Week of Lent

Deus, qui omnes in Christo renatos genus electum et regale sacerdotium fecisti, da nobis et velle et posse quod praecipis, ut populo ad aeternitatem vocato una sit fides cordium et pietas actionum.
Literal rendering

O God, who made all those reborn in Christ to be a chosen race and a royal priesthood, grant us both to desire and to be able to do what you command, so that within the people called unto eternity there may be one faith of hearts and one compassionate duty of actions. The really hard phrase in this is pietas actionum. We have on many occasions in the daily Lent series talked about pietas, and how hard it is to get into English, since “piety” just doesn’t sound right to our modern ears.

COLLECT (2002MR) Deus, qui omnes in Christo renatos genus electum et regale sacerdotium fecisti, da nobis et velle et posse quod praecipis, ut populo ad aeternitatem vocato una sit fides cordium et pietas actionum. In the Tridentinum there is a prayer from Holy Saturday after the 10th prophecy: Deus, qui diversitatem gentium in confessione tui nominis adunasti: da nobis, et…

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Also posted: Apr 8, 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