WDTPRS?

Latin-English Propers for the Ordinary Form of Mass

(a la Father Z's "What Does the Prayer Really Say?")

The Knoxville Latin Mass Community is devoted primarily to support of the Traditional Latin Mass. But in his July 7, 2007 apostolic letter Summorum Pontificum that took full effect on September 14, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI established the Novus Ordo Mass and the TLM to be two approved forms of the one Roman rite of the Catholic Church — its ordinary and extraordinary forms, respectively — and urged that they co-exist in harmony and mutual support. Accordingly, members of our community also support and encourage ordinary form in Latin.

It appears that faithful and authentic English translations of the 2002 Missale Romanum (ordinary form) propers — the opening prayer, the prayer over the gifts, the prayer after communion — will not appear in Catholic pews until late 2011. In the meantime, Fr. John T. Zuhlsdorf has for some years offered literal ("slavishly accurate") translations of these prayers in his WDTPRS columns that are published in The Wanderer and are archived at wdtprs.com. We provide here "weekly prayer cards" that list in parallel columns the (Novus Ordo) Latin originals and Fr. Zuhlsdorf's literal English translations of the Collect ("Opening Prayer"), Super oblata ("Prayer Over The Gifts"), and Post communionem ("Prayer After Communion") for each indicated Sunday. At Mass or otherwise, you can use these to pray the authentic propers privately, choosing either Latin or accurate English translation.

1st Sunday of Advent	5th Sunday of Lent	17th Sunday in Ordinary Time
2nd Sunday of Advent	Palm Sunday	18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
3nd Sunday of Advent	Easter Sunday	Transfiguration of the Lord
4nd Sunday of Advent	The Exsultet	19th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Christmas	2nd Sunday of Easter	20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Holy Family	3rd Sunday of Easter	21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
Epiphany	4th Sunday of Easter	22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Baptism of the Lord	5th Sunday of Easter	23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time	6th Sunday of Easter	24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time	Ascension Thursday/Sunday	25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
4th Sunday in Ordinary Time	7th Sunday of Easter	26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time	Pentecost Sunday	27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
6th Sunday in Ordinary Time	Trinity Sunday	28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time	Corpus Christi Sunday	29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
8th Sunday in Ordinary Time	12th Sunday in Ordinary Time	30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
1st Sunday of Lent	13th Sunday in Ordinary Time	31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
2nd Sunday of Lent	14th Sunday in Ordinary Time	32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
3rd Sunday of Lent	15th Sunday in Ordinary Time	33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
4th Sunday of Lent (Laetare)	16th Sunday in Ordinary Time	34th Sunday - Christ the King

You can left-click to view each prayer card (PDF format) online, or (preferably) right-click to save the file on your own hard drive for later printing. Then you can trim the printed page to size and fold it — for handy insertion in place in the Magnificat missalette or hand missal that you take to Mass — to remind you at the proper time what the prayer really says.

If — as many of us in the Knoxville Latin Mass community do — you attend a daily Mass in the ordinary form, you can use each Sunday's propers throughout the following week. What better way to make your own what each Sunday's Mass prayers really say, than by praying each set of three propers for a full week?

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