Category: Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma

Quasquicentennial!

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. […]

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No, It’s Just Thursday

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. […]

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Corpus Christi Retrospective Part 2:
In Procession

community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Latin, Pope Benedict XVI, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy

An anonymous bishop once famously prescribed a remedy for many of the problems facing the modern Church with the words “less jabbering – more processions“. He was not wrong. In one sense, of course, processions form the structure of the entire liturgy: we begin with an entrance procession (introit), and there are processions for the Gospel, the offertory, and perhaps […]

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Corpus Christi Retrospective Part 1:
Ad Orientem

Cardinal Sarah, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Pope Benedict XVI, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

This year my parish continued its tradition of celebrating our Corpus Christi Masses on the high altar. This obviously means that rather than facing the congregation through much of the Mass, the priest is facing the same direction they are: towards the altar, toward the tabernacle, towards the Lord. This way of celebrating the Mass is called Ad Orientem, which […]

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Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity

community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy

Depending on what calendar you use (Ordinary Form or Extraordinary Form), and whether or not it is a Holy Day of Obligation in your diocese, today(or last Thursday) is (or was) the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). Happy Corpus Christi! Whereas Holy Thursday is a celebration of the institution of the Eucharist, Corpus Christi is […]

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Practice and Celebration

Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, The Sacred Liturgy

This weekend we’re having what we call a “churchy” weekend. In just a few hours, I’m heading over to the parish to run a morning training for new and transferring Altar Servers. After lunch, rehearsals for the Corpus Christi Mass and Procession begin. In the church today, we’re also hosting some youth pilgrims coming to the Holy Door, Adoration, Benediction, […]

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Eucharistic Procession through the Streets of Tacoma

2015 transitions - Holy Rosary / St. Joseph, community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Moments in Time, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy
A Medieval Eurcharistic Procession

This coming Sunday my parish will participate in an outdoor Procession of the Blessed Sacrament following the Noon Mass. The Masses that weekend will be celebrated Ad Orientem. This will be the fourth year we’ve taken Jesus through the streets of Tacoma and amongst His people. If you are anywhere in the area, I hope you will consider joining us. […]

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Rejoice in the Lord Always!

Chant, Divine Office, Francine my love, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Jubilee, Latin, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

This past weekend has been what we at Pistachio House sometimes refer to as a “churchy weekend”: three Masses and chanted Vespers. The first of these was a new experience for us. At 6:30 on Saturday morning, we attended an Extraordinary Form Rorate Mass at Saint Joseph. This is a votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin celebrated in Advent. Since […]

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Enter His Gates with Thanksgiving

community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Jubilee, Moments in Time, Pope Francis I, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

Pope Francis opened the Holy Doors at Saint Peter’s Basilica, officially beginning the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy on December 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady. On December 13, the Third Sunday of Advent, Father Nicholas Wichert will open Tacoma’s Holy Doors. Perhaps I should explain. Normally for a Jubilee, the Holy Doors of all four […]

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Open Wide the Holy Doors and Announce the Jubilee!

Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Jubilee, Moments in Time, Pope Francis I

Today, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, Pope Francis unsealed the Holy Doors at Saint Peter’s Basilica, officially beginning the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy. On this coming Third Sunday of Advent, all across the world, cathedrals, basilicas, and shrines in every diocese will bless and open their own Holy Doors. Archbishop Sartain has designated a […]

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