No frills Easter Wednesday vespers from the older book, Brevarium Romanum
For the weary brethren.
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →I class · White
For the weary brethren.
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
Suscipe, quaesumus, Domine, preces populi tui cum oblationibus hostiarum: ut paschalibus initiata mysteriis, ad aeternitatis nobis medelam, te operante, proficient.O God, who today, death having been conquered, unbarred for us the gateway of eternity through Your Only-begotten, follow up upon our prayers which You instill in us by anticipating them. The word praevenio (prae – “before” + venio “to come”) reminds us of a distinction made when speaking about grace. God gives us habitual grace, also called sanctifying grace, which is in us in a stable and abiding manner. Actual graces are given according to our needs here and now, in this or that circumstance. Among the actual graces is gratia praeveniens, or “prevenient grace”, called sometimes “preventing grace” (cf. Council of Trent, Session VI, ch. 5). When we fall into habitual sin and our will has little strength…
We have come to the high point of the Church’s liturgical year. Each year Holy Church sacramentally re-presents the history of our salvation from creation to Second Coming together with the earthly life of the Lord from conception and birth to death, resurrection and ascension.
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →Welcome to another rapid installment of What Does the Prayer Really Sound Like? Today we will hear the Preface of Easter as it is in the 1962 Missale Romanum as well as the 2002 edition. I speak the Preface and then sing it in the Solemn Tone. I use the text as it is during Easter Season rather than as…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →Also posted: Apr 16, 2006
solemnity · White · Eastertide · Year C
On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
Deus, qui hodierna die, per Unigenitum tuum, aeternitatis nobis aditum, devicta morte, reserasti, da nobis, quaesumus, ut, qui resurrectionis dominicae sollemnia colimus, per innovationem tui Spiritus in lumine vitae resurgamus.O God, who today, once death was conquered, unbarred for us the gateway of eternity through Your Only-begotten, grant to us, we beg, that we who are reverently observing the solemn annual rites of the Lord’s resurrection, may through the renewing of Your Spirit rise again in the light of life.
We observed the Sacred Triduum: the priesthood was celebrated, the Eucharistic Christ was reposed and the altar stripped, the Passion was sung and the Cross was kissed. Our liturgical death was complete. Then in the evening, in some places even at midnight, the Easter Vigil began. Flowers, instrumental music, white and gold vestments returned after a long drought of ornamentation.…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →Perpetuo, Deus, Ecclesiam tuam pio favore tuere, ut, paschalibus renovata mysteriis, ad resurrectionis perveniat claritatem.Look to Thy Church, O God, with unending dutiful good will, so that, having been renewed by means of the paschal sacramental mysteries, it may attain to the glory of the resurrection.
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Easter Sunday – Station: St. Mary Major ORIGINALLY PRINTED IN The Wanderer in 2003 Some brief comments from you esteemed readers of WDTPRS: WLM offers by e-mail: “You and the Wanderer are terrific! How blessed we are to have all you in these critical times.” I am not sure that everyone would agree with…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →Exultant in joys of Easter, O Lord, we are offering now the sacrifices by which Thy Church is wondrously reborn and nourished. The faithful Lewis & Short Dictionary brings back to mind that the verb exsulto in its roots has to do with “jumping” or “leaping”. It means “to spring vigorously.” So, by extension it means “to rejoice exceedingly”. Hearing it in our prayer reminds us of the singing of the Exsultet during the dark of the night when the Christ Candle was kindled. One can envisage Christ leaping from the tomb, the new Adam, gloriously renewed – as we hope to be someday. Also, nutrio (and the deponent nutrior – here I think it is not deponent) has a…
What Does the Prayer Really Say? Easter Sunday – Station: St. Mary Major ORIGINALLY PRINTER IN The Wanderer in 2002 ORIGINALLY PRINTER IN The Wanderer in 2002 News flash: apparently the new, third Latin edition of the Roman Missal has been formally presented to the Holy Father. This means that this new Latin Missal will soon be released. Stay tuned!
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →