III class · White
Commemoration of St. Stephen Pope and Martyr
Some of you have asked me to post my recordings of the Stations of the Cross as individual posts. It seems that in iTunes only one of the four are available when I post multiple links. Here is one. This is my recording of St. Alphonus Liguori’s Stations of the Cross, the Via Crucis. It is simpler than the one…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →Some of you have asked me to post my recordings of the Stations of the Cross as individual posts. It seems that in iTunes only one of the four are available when I post multiple links. May I ask a prayer in return?
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →For your Lenten spiritual warfare, here are two version of the Via Crucis, the Way or Stations of the Cross, by St. Alphonsus Liguori. If people a truly impeded from going to a church, chapel or place where the Stations have been formally set up (which is a requirement for the indulgence to be gained) you can still gain an…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
Largire nobis, quaesumus, Domine, semper spiritum cogitandi quae recta sunt, propitius et agendi: ut, qui sine te esse non possumus, secundum te vivere valeamus.The Collect for Mass and the Office for this upcoming 8th Sunday after Pentecost is found in the ancient Veronese Sacramentary and the Gelasian and the so-called Gregorian. It survived the liturgical snipper with their scissors and paste pots to live on in the post-Conciliar Missale Romanum on Thursday of the 1st week of Lent. However, there is a minor…
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Cross posted with One Peter Five: This week’s task is scary. The Gospel for this 8th Sunday after Pentecost presents probably the most difficult of the Lord’s parables to explicate. This week we hear the Parable of the Unjust Steward from Luke 16. Context: For the last few chapters of Luke we have been presented with Our Lord telling many…
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opt memorial · Green · Ordinary Time · Year C
[display_podcast] In today’s PODCAzT you will hear excerpts of a tender letter (ep. 2) from an exiled St. Eusebius of Vercelli to his flock. I have a rather longer selection of the Latin original this time. Also, I read my latest column for The Wanderer, wherein I hit detractors of Summorum Pontificum pretty hard. 039 St. Augustine on Christ the…
Read the full post on wdtprs.com →On weekdays without their own proper, the Mass takes the Sunday’s prayers.
Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum, multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam, ut, te rectore, te duce, sic bonis transeuntibus nunc utamur, ut iam possimus inhaerere mansuris.Shall we look at the Collect for this upcoming Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form? It will the 17th Sunday of Greater Meatloaf…. Ordinary Time. The traditional Roman Missal, 1962MR, places today’s Collect at the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost though it is a little different from the newer version, to wit: sic transeamus per bona temporalia, ut non amittamus…
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