CWN Editor’s Note: Bishop Thomas Tobin of Providence, Rhode Island, has issued a clear statement of support for traditionalist Catholics. On his Twitter account, BIshop Tobin posted: I am convinced that if the Church is to prosper in the present … Continue reading
Category: Mass and the Liturgy
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the tenth Sunday after Pentecost: Deus, qui omnipoténtiam tuam parcéndo máxime et miserándo maniféstas: multíplica super nos misericórdiam tuam; ut, ad tua promíssa curréntes, cœléstium bonórum … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the ninth Sunday after Pentecost: Páteant aures misericórdiæ tuæ, Dómine, précibus supplicántium: et, ut peténtibus desideráta concédas; fac eos quæ tibi sunt plácita, postuláre. Here is … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the eighth Sunday after Pentecost: Largíre nobis, quǽsumus, Dómine, semper spíritum cogitándi quæ recta sunt, propítius et agéndi: ut, qui sine te esse non póssumus, secúndum … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the seventh Sunday after Pentecost: Deus, cuius providéntia in sui dispositióne non fállitur: te súpplices exorámus; ut nóxia cuncta submóveas, et ómnia nobis profutúra concédas. Here is … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the fifth Sunday after Pentecost: Deus, qui diligéntibus te bona invisibília præparásti: infúnde córdibus nostris tui amóris afféctum; ut te in ómnibus et super ómnia diligéntes, promissiónes … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the fourth Sunday after Pentecost: Da nobis, quǽsumus, Dómine: ut et mundi cursus pacífice nobis tuo órdine dirigátur; et Ecclésia tua tranquílla devotióne lætétur. Here is my … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for Trinity Sunday
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for Trinity Sunday: Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui dedísti fámulis tuis in confessióne veræ fídei, ætérnæ Trinitátis glóriam agnóscere, et in poténtia majestátis adoráre Unitátem: quǽsumus; ut, ejúsdem … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for Pentecost Sunday
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for Pentecost Sunday: Deus, qui hodiérna die corda fidélium Sancti Spíritus illustratióne docuísti: da nobis in eódem Spíritu recta sápere; et de ejus semper consolatióne gaudére. Here … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for the Sunday after the Ascension
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for Sunday after the Ascension: Omnípotens sempitérne Deus: fac nos tibi semper et devótam gérere voluntátem; et majestáti tuæ sincéro corde servíre. Here is my translation: O … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for the Ascension
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the Feast of the Ascension: Concéde, quǽsumus, omnípotens Deus: ut, qui hodiérna die Unigénitum tuum, Redemptórem nostrum, ad cœlos ascendísse crédimus; ipsi quoque mente in cœléstibus … Continue reading
The Mystery of the Holy Eucharist in Father Feeney’s ‘Bread of Life’
Eucharistia means good favor or good grace or good thanks. The mystery of the Holy Eucharist is that by which the God whose delight is to be with the children of men has contrived to remain always with us in … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for the Fifth Sunday after Easter
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the Fifth Sunday after Easter: Deus, a quo bona cuncta procédunt, largíre supplícibus tuis: ut cogitémus, te inspiránte, quæ recta sunt; et, te gubernánte, éadem faciámus. … Continue reading
Archbishop Arthur Roche Denounces Novus Ordo
New Liturgical Movement, Gregory Dipippo: Via CatholicCulture.org, I read today on the website of the Spanish Catholic magazine Omnes an interview which it published on Monday with Abp Arthur Roche, the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, which contains this rather surprising statement. Read … Continue reading
What’s in That Prayer? The Collect for the Third Sunday after Easter
Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the Third Sunday after Easter: Deus, qui errántibus, ut in viam possint redíre iustítiæ, veritátis tuæ lumen osténdis: da cunctis, qui christiána professióne censéntur, et illa … Continue reading