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Why we kneel during the Creed at Christmas
December 19, 2019
The Collect for the Fourth Sunday of Advent in the Novus Ordo is also the Postcommunion for the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25) in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. The Annunciation was the moment of the Incarnation of our Lord.  Therefore, during Mass in the Ordinary Form on both Annunciation and Christmas,
Gaudete Sunday is a glimpse of the joy that lies ahead
December 12, 2019
The Third Sunday of Advent is nicknamed “Gaudete Sunday” from the first word of the entrance chant, or Introit: Rejoice! Today we relax slightly our penitential focus during Advent. Advent is joyous, but also penitential. Remember: we fast before our feasts.    At the beginning of Advent we begged God for the grace of a
Are you stuck in the mud of sin? Advent is for you
December 05, 2019
In the Church’s traditional, Vetus Ordo, calendar, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception is this year observed on Sunday. In the Novus Ordo, however, the Second Sunday of Advent is observed. Our Collect for the Second Sunday of Advent was not in the pre-conciliar Missale Romanum but it was in the so-called Rotulus (“scroll”) of
A New Year’s resolution for priests: Start saying the vesting prayers
November 28, 2019
This Sunday, the first of the penitential season of Advent, Holy Church presents the same reading from Paul to the Romans both in the Novus Ordo and in the traditional form of Holy Mass. St Thomas Aquinas (d 1274), commenting on Romans, says this passage was read during Advent in his day. For a long
Omnium Gatherum 
November 21, 2019
In 1925 Pius XI issued an encyclical, Quas primas, by which he established the annual feast of Christ the King to be celebrated at the end of October, the month favoured by atheistic communists. With the calendrical changes after Vatican II, it was transferred to the final Sunday of the liturgical year. Pope Pius emphasised
Heaven is not automatic
November 14, 2019
Our Collect for the 33rd Ordinary Sunday was in the 8th-century Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis and also in the more ancient Veronese Sacramentary. Da nobis, quaesumus, Domine Deus noster, in tua semper devotione gaudere, quia perpetua est et plena felicitas, si bonorum omnium iugiter serviamus auctori.  This ancient, rich Collect was penned by a master. I
We are pilgrim soldiers of the Church Militant. We need leadership from our officers
November 07, 2019
The Collect for the 32nd Ordinary Sunday has an antecedent in the Gelasian Sacramentary. It is also used in the Extraordinary Form on the 19th Sunday after Pentecost, and it is cited in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1742).    Omnipotens et misericors Deus, universa nobis adversantia propitiatus exclude, ut, mente et corpore pariter expediti,
We all have a God-given task in the vale of tears
October 31, 2019
November introduces the phase of the liturgical year when we shift to ponder the Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell and the Second Coming of the Lord. This is suggested already in our still hope-bedecked green 31st Ordinary Sunday. Shall we see the Collect? Omnipotens et misericors Deus, de cuius munere venit, ut tibi
Obedience to God is the path to happiness
October 24, 2019
While in the traditional Roman calendar the last Sunday of October is dedicated to Christ the King, not merely in the summation of all things at the end but even now over all temporal realms, in the Novus Ordo it is the 30th, and Ordinary. Let’s see its Collect: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, da nobis fidei
A strategy for Catholics in a time of chaos
October 17, 2019
If you are a regular reader of this publication, you have probably learned of peculiar, indeed inexplicable, nay, rather, downright alarming goings-on in Rome in the penumbra of the Amazon synod now underway. It is likely that some of you are upset by them. That’s entirely understandable, but there’s an alternative. In times of chaos,
If we attend to our vocations, God will give us every grace we need
October 10, 2019
On the 28th Ordinary Sunday, you could have the chance to hear a lovely Collect sung in Latin. It has been chanted for centuries on the 16th Sunday after Pentecost according to the traditional Roman calendar: Tua nos, quaesumus, Domine, gratia semper et praeveniat et sequatur, ac bonis operibus iugiter praestet esse intentos. The et
Go to Confession and hide nothing. I dare you
October 03, 2019
With a slight variation, this week’s Collect, for the 27th Ordinary Sunday, was in the ancient Gelasian Sacramentary and in the post-Tridentine editions of the Missale Romanum for the 11th Sunday after Pentecost. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui abundantia pietatis tuae et merita supplicum excedis et vota, effunde super nos misericordiam tuam, ut dimittas quae conscientia
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