Ruminations of an Amateur Monastic
On today’s Vigil of the Assumption, we celebrate also the memory of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan Friar and priest who spent much of his life as a missionary. He returned to his native Poland, where he helped lead a publishing house that produced religious tracts and anti-Nazi literature. The friary itself provided shelter to refugees, including some 2,000 Jews […]
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The following is the Holy Week schedule for the parishes of Saint Patrick and Holy Cross in Tacoma, Washington. The Holy Triduum is essentially one giant liturgy (with some serious overnight breaks) that begins with the Introit of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, continues through the Good Friday Liturgy, and doesn’t end until the Recessional following […]
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The last few days have been full of endings and beginnings. Yesterday was the end of the Novemdiales, the traditional nine days of mourning following the funeral of a Pope. In the midst of these days, last Sunday our parish of Saint Patrick celebrated – is that the right word? – the Office for the Dead for the repose of […]
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Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle has proclaimed a “Year of the Eucharist” to begin on the external Solemnity of Corpus Christi, this coming Sunday. In his recent pastoral letter The Work of Redemption, he says: During the coming year, I ask every Catholic and every parish community to commit themselves to deepening our understanding and experience of the Eucharist, and […]
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Holy Cross, Tacoma Today for the first time, I trained Altar Servers at a parish other than my own. I’d offered many months back at a “Quadrant meeting” for the staffs of our local parishes. So far, one parish has taken me up on the offer, Holy Cross. So this morning, I spent two hours with their servers. We got […]
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