Collect · Dec 28, 2015 · Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS

“They were the Church’s first blossoms” – the Holy Innocents

Novus OrdoHoly Innocents, Martyrs — Dec 28, 2026, Dec 28, 2027, Dec 28, 2028

Deus, cuius hodierna die praeconium Innocentes Martyres non loquendo, sed moriendo confessi sunt: omnia in nobis vitiorum mala mortifica; ut fidem tuam, quam lingua nostra loquitur, etiam moribus vita fateatur.

Fr. Z’s literal rendering

O God, whose public heralding the Innocent Martyrs professed this very day not by speaking but by dying; grant, we implore, that (our) life might confess Your Faith, which our tongue declares, also by (our) morals.

Today is Childermas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child, By by, lully lullay, thou little tiny child, By by, lully lullay. O sisters too, How may we do For to preserve this day This poor youngling, For whom we do sing, By by, lully lullay?

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“They were the Church’s first blossoms” – the Holy Innocents

The same prayer, discussed elsewhere

28 Dec – Holy Innocents – Childermas: “They were the Church’s first blossoms”

WDTPRS: The Traditional Latin Mass and the NON-Traditional Latin Mass (Novus Ordo) are NOT the same simply because they are both in Latin. Wherein Fr. Z explains also the motives of those who attack the TLM.