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O Oriens

21 December 2016 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, History, Latin, Prayer, Seasons

light in the darkness

It is altogether right and proper that we should celebrate Christ as the bringer of light on this, the day of the winter solstice. This was an ancient holy day in many religions, as indeed it continues to be. On this, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, where people for eons have begged their divinity for […]

O Clavis David

20 December 2016 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Latin, Prayer, Seasons

Continuing on with our annual tradition, we come closer and closer to the birth of the Messiah, “the holy one, the true, who holds the key of David, who opens and no one shall close, who closes and no one shall open” (Revelation 3:7). The key is the symbol of authority. Christ is the Key of the House of David […]

O Radix Jesse

19 December 2016 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, History, Holy Days, Prayer, Seasons

By now some of you might be thinking that the O Antiphon words are sounding kind of familiar, even though you’re not really up on your Gregorian Chant. In fact, these antiphons are some of the earliest attested antiphons in the Divine Office, being mentioned in passing in the works of Saint Boethius in the early sixth century. They’re rooted […]

O Adonai

18 December 2016 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Latin, Moments in Time, Prayer, Seasons

Today is the second “O” antiphon, O Adonai. If you are in Tacoma, you may hear this sung at Solemn Vespers this evening at Holy Rosary Church. Please join us for this beautiful and holy liturgy at 6:00 PM. These videos, which I will be embedding each day until Christmas, were recorded by the Dominican student brothers at Oxford in […]

O Sapiéntia

17 December 2016 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Latin, Prayer, Seasons, Wisdom

O Wisdom! Advent is drawing to its close, and it’s time again for our annual look at the O Antiphons. These antiphons are part of the prayers at the liturgical hour of Vespers for the 17th through the 23rd of December – the 24th is of course the Christmas Vigil itself. They are ancient prayers, possibly dating back to the […]

Gaudete!

10 December 2016 Chant, Holy Days

Tomorrow is Gaudete Sunday – the joyous third Sunday of Advent. Jimmy Akin gives us the scoop.

Advent Vespers

27 November 2016 Chant, community, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Nicholas Wichert

This Advent, my parish of Holy Rosary in Tacoma will be celebrating Vespers in the church on Sundays at 6:00 PM. Please join us! There’s noting like chanted Vespers in a beautiful, echoing church to pull the heart and mind towards the Lord. Please note that due to last minute changes in Fr. Wichert’s schedule, we will only have solemn […]

The Chant of All Souls

02 November 2016 Chant, Holy Days, Latin

Can we talk about Gregorian chant? Because today has some doozies. I confess that I was a fan of chant long before I was a Catholic. Indeed, God used the beauty of this music to draw me to Him. Specific chants are prescribed for each Mass in both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite. Each day’s […]

Day of the Dead

02 November 2016 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Prayer

Let’s talk Purgatory. We have to, to make any sense at all out of today’s feast. Today is officially “The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed”, but like most folks, I’ll stick with the simple version – All Souls’ Day. Over the years, I’ve heard numerous homilies and essays that mix this day up with yesterday, All Saints’ Day. Somebody […]

Litany of the Saints

01 November 2016 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Latin, Prayer

Happy Feast of All Saints! This is the day where we celebrate all the saints, known and unknown: the Church Triumphant. We ask them to pray for us. I for one could use all the help I can get! This day has been a feast since the sixth or seventh century, and it was fixed on November 1 in the […]

Initial Reflections on the Quasquicentennial

18 October 2016 Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, community, Deacon Mike Teskey, Francine my love, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Mary, Moments in Time, Quasquicentennial, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy, Vocation

This past Sunday, my parish of Holy Rosary celebrated its 125th anniversary – our Quasquicentennial. The project for this celebration was started several years ago by Dr Michael Barkley, a gentleman from the parish who deserves all credit for getting this ball rolling. His great-grandparents were in fact the first couple married at the parish, back in October of 1891. […]

On the Feast of Saint Luke

18 October 2016 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Saints

Saint Luke is my kind of writer. Luke the historian and Luke the lyrical poet are both in evidence in his New Testament writings, his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. He freely admits that he never met Christ in the flesh, that he was not a witness to the events he describes in his Gospel. Like any good […]

Today!

16 October 2016 Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Mary, Moments in Time, Quasquicentennial, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

Quasquicentennial!

11 October 2016 Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Mary, Moments in Time, Quasquicentennial, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

If you are anywhere near Tacoma this weekend, please join us on Sunday for the 125th anniversary of the founding of our parish. The Mass is at Noon, and it will be followed by a reception in the School hall. Here’s the blurb from one of our local papers: Holy Rosary’s steeple rises above downtown Tacoma and towers over I-5. […]

No, It’s Just Thursday

06 October 2016 Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, community, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Mary, Moments in Time, Quasquicentennial, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert

What a day – and it’s not quite over yet! If it wasn’t for to-do lists, I don’t know how I would function. Called the paper for non-delivery (again) – check. Breakfast and Lauds – check. Worked on Incident Report for the Firm – check. Meeting with Pastor – check. Worked on making Firm security guide “more avuncular” – check. […]

Quality of Life

25 September 2016 Annual, Chant, History, Meditations, Prayer, Saints

Blessed Hermann of Reichenau

What kind of life could the child possibly look forward to? He was born with a cleft palate, cerebral palsy, and spina bifida. In these progressive days, the child very well might have been aborted after the doctor showed the mother her first detailed fetal ultrasound. But the child had the great fortune to be born in 1013, a much […]

Sacred Liturgy Conference

01 September 2016 Archbishop Alexander K. Sample, Chant, Divine Office, inside baseball, Latin, Moments in Time, Prayer, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Sacred Liturgy Conference, The Sacred Liturgy, Vocation

This weekend, me and a couple of guys are taking a road trip and heading over to Mount Angel Abbey for the 2016 Sacred Liturgy Conference. I realize that this is not what most folks do on their Labor Day Weekend, but I’m pretty comfortable in my eccentricities. Here’s the intro from the press release: The Oregon Sacred Liturgy Conference […]

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