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Here is my reading of the Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross, composed by Joseph Card. Ratzinger, once Pope, now His Holiness Benedict XVI, for the 2005 Good Friday observance at the Colosseum in Rome. I love the St. Alphonsus Stations, but I think it would be a nice gesture in some parishes to use Papa Ratzinger’s Stations on…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →Oremus et pro Iudaeis: ut Deus et Dominus noster auferat velamen de cordibus eorum; ut et ipsi agnoscant Iesum Christum Dominum nostrum. …Later today, I will participate in the Good Friday service in the Extraordinary Form. Thank you, Holy Father for Summorum Pontificum. During the Good Friday service, there are many intercessory prayers. One of them is for the Jews. Over the decades, the Good Friday prayer for the Jews has stirred controversy in diverse quarters. Benedict XVI changed the text of…
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Here is a reading of the Via Crucis, the Way of the Cross, composed by Joseph Card. Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, for the 2005 Good Friday observance at the Colosseum in Rome. The text is English, though I use Latin responses and prayers between the Stations.
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →Welcome to another installment of What Does the Prayer Really Sound Like? Today we will hear the Passion of St. John, to be sung on Good Friday using the 1962 Missale Romanum. We hear it sung according to the traditional passion tone from the book called the Passionale. The Passionale is often divided into three books for each of the…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
Welcome to another installment of What Does the Prayer Really Sound Like? Today we will hear the Passion of St. Matthew, to be sung on Palm Sunday using the 1962 Missale Romanum. We hear it sung according to the traditional passion tone from the book called the Passionale.
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Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, Domine, et famulos tuos aeterna protectione sanctifica, pro quibus Christus, Filius tuus, per suum cruorem instituit paschale mysterium.Remember Your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify Your servants, for whom Christ, Your Son, established the paschal mystery by means of His streaming Blood.
Cruor has a precise meaning: “Blood (which flows from a wound), a stream of blood (more restricted in meaning than sanguis, which designates both that circulating in bodies and that shed by wounding). ORATIO: Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, Domine, et famulos tuos aeterna protectione sanctifica, pro quibus Christus, Filius tuus, per suum cruorem instituit paschale mysterium. The subtle meaning of cruor…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →ORATIO Reminiscere miserationum tuarum, Domine, et famulos tuos aeterna protectione sanctifica, pro quibus Christus, Filius tuus, per suum cruorem instituit paschale mysterium.Remember Your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify Your servants, for whom Christ, Your Son, established the paschal mystery by means of His Blood.
The rich and enlightening Lewis & Short Dictionary shows that cruor has a precise meaning: "Blood (which flows from a wound), a stream of blood (more restricted in meaning than sanguis, which designates both that circulating in bodies and that shed by wounding). LITERAL VERSION Remember Your mercies, O Lord, and with your eternal protection sanctify Your servants, for whom…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui humano generi, ad imitandum humilitatis exemplum, Salvatorem nostrum carnem sumere et crucem subire fecisti, concede propitius, ut et patientiae ipsius habere documenta et resurrectionis consortia mereamur.Almighty eternal God, who, for the human race, made our Savior both assume flesh and undergo the Cross for an example of humility to be imitated, graciously grant, that we may be worthy both to grasp both the lessons of His forbearance and also to have shares in the resurrection.
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. The Sacred Triduum (triduum from tres dies – “three day space”) were once days of obligation when people were freed from servile work so that they could attend the liturgies, once celebrated in the morning. In the 17th century, however, the obligation was removed under the influence of changing social and religious…
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Sacro munere satiati, supplices te, Domine, deprecamur, ut, qui fecisti nos morte Filii tui sperare quod credimus, facias nos, eodem resurgente, pervenire quo tendimus.Filled to satiety by the sacred gift, we humble ones entreat you, Lord, that you, who made us in the death of your Son to hope for what we believe, will make us, the same Son arising, to reach the place toward which we are striving.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Palm Sunday – Station: St. St. John Lateran ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 Some feedback HE in TN writes via e-mail about my comment that I was sending my article to the publisher from Florida: “This week in Florida, you dive into Lewis & Short as always. Does your weighty personal copy…
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