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An Emperor Saint

13 July 2019 Annual, History, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Prayer, Saints

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that vanishingly few American churches have an image of today’s saint. But ours does. Let me explain. It’s a pretty rare thing when Kings become saints, or at least become canonized saints. I can only think of a handful off the top of my head, though I’m sure there are […]

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

28 June 2019 2019 Transitions in Tacoma, Annual, Chant, Deacon James Fish, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Meditations, Prayer, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Martin Bourke, Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert

The Divine Mercy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

How does the human brain wrap itself around the eternal and infinite love of God for His creation? How can can we even begin to comprehend the depth of love in Christ’s wounded heart as he pours Himself out for us sinners at Calvary? The truth is, we can’t. The saints and the mystics may catch glimpses, but we humans […]

God in the Streets of Tacoma

23 June 2019 Annual, community, Deacon James Fish, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma

A Medieval Eurcharistic Procession

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 […]

Corpus Christi

19 June 2019 2019 Transitions in Tacoma, Annual, community, Deacon James Fish, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Martin Bourke, The Sacred Liturgy

This coming Sunday my parish will participate in an outdoor Procession of the Blessed Sacrament following the Noon Mass. This will be the seventh year we’ve taken Jesus through the streets of Tacoma and amongst His people. Our outgoing parish priest, Rev. Martin Bourke, will celebrate the Noon Mass of Corpus Christi in the school auditorium, and then he and […]

The Vigil of Pentecost

08 June 2019 2019 Transitions in Tacoma, community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, The Sacred Liturgy

Tomorrow is Pentecost, the great solemnity celebrating the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. The Church has long celebrated this event in three ways: the solemnity of the day itself, the octave of the day, and the vigil. With the liturgical reforms of the 1960s and 1970s, all but the day itself was suppressed, a sad testament to […]

Boniface, Apostle to the Germans

05 June 2019 2019 Transitions in Tacoma, Divine Office, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Prayer, Saints, Wisdom

Saint Boniface, whose feast is today, is widely known as the “apostle to the Germans”. An Englishman of Devonshire, he was part of a great Anglo-Saxon missionary effort in the Saxon marches of the Frankish Empire in the early eighth century. The Saint Boniface Window at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church, Tacoma Since my parish church of Holy […]

The Ascension of the Lord

02 June 2019 Annual, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Catechism, community, Deacon Carl Chilo, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Meditations, Moments in Time, Polyphony, Sacred Liturgy Conference, Seasons

Viri Galilæi, quid admiramini aspicientes in cælum? Forty days (and more) have passed since Easter. This year, I was was fortunate enough to celebrate the Ascension twice. The first was Ascension Thursday at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes, Spokane, as part of the 2019 Sacred Liturgy Conference. It was a Pontifical High Mass of the Ascension of our […]

Holy Rosary, Transitioning Again:
a Plea for the Future of our Parish

05 May 2019 2019 Transitions in Tacoma, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Archbishop Paul Etienne, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, community, Deacon James Fish, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Moments in Time, Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Rev. Martin Bourke, Rev. Michael Wagner

My parish of Holy Rosary has been going through a rough year. I’ve restrained myself from speaking too much about it, although I did have numerous posts on the inciting incident: the sudden collapse and then death of our pastor Father Michael Wagner last year. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church, Tacoma Following Father’s death, we had a string […]

The Voice of God

03 May 2019 Camino, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Meditations, Rev. Michael Wagner, Saints

Yesterday, following Vespers, I gave Father Wagner’s family the compostela from last year’s Camino. It seemed fitting, since I had walked for him. Indeed, the Pilgrim Office staff had written on it “Vicarie pro Rev. Michael Wagner”, indicating that I had walked as his substitute. Today I am reminded of something I wrote in my journal on this day back […]

Three May Seconds

02 May 2019 Camino, Francine my love, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Meditations, Moments in Time, Rev. Michael Wagner

May the second looms large in my life. On this day in 2013, Francine and I walked into Santiago de Compostela for the first time, at the end of our first Camino. At this point, Francine had been walking for almost two weeks, and me for more than a month. I can’t describe the joy of that day. Arrival in […]

The Divine Mercy

28 April 2019 Annual, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Meditations, Pope Saint John Paul II, Prayer

Today, the Second Sunday in the Octave of Easter, is also known as Divine Mercy Sunday. Pope John Paul II proclaimed the Sunday after Easter as the Sunday of the Divine Mercy (Dominica II Paschæ seu de divina misericordia) in accord with the visions of the Divine Mercy received by Saint Faustina. But what is the Divine Mercy? In short, […]

Vespers for the Dead

24 April 2019 Chant, community, Divine Office, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

One year ago, our parishes of Holy Rosary and Visitation were deep in prayer for the health and soul of our pastor, Rev. Michael Wagner. Rev. Michael Wagner On April 10 2018, Father Wagner collapsed during the celebration of the holy Mass. He was admitted to hospital with an irreversible brain hemorrhage. The doctors advised his family and the archdiocese […]

Holy Week Marathon

22 April 2019 community, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Martin Bourke, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

I joke sometimes that Holy Week for an MC is like running a marathon. So this year, I used my FitBit tracking and figured out the distance I walked, starting with our Palm Sunday rehearsals and ending on Easter Sunday. This year, I clocked about 70km – that’s 43 miles. Given that a marathon is 26 miles, I actually walked […]

Tenebræ

14 April 2019 Annual, Chant, Deacon James Fish, Divine Office, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

Schedule for Holy Week

09 April 2019 Annual, Chant, community, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Prayer, Rev. Martin Bourke, The Sacred Liturgy

The following is the Holy Week schedule for the parishes of Holy Rosary and Visitation in Tacoma, Washington. It’s less jam-packed than previous years, but there’s still a lot here! Wednesday Tenebræ is not to be missed. And of course, the Holy Triduum is essentially one giant liturgy (with some serious overnight breaks) that begins with the Introit of the […]

Lenten Vespers

07 March 2019 Chant, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Martin Bourke, Seasons

At my parish of Holy Rosary in Tacoma, we are celebrating Sunday Vespers as we do each Lent. Please, join us in the coming weeks if you are local and able. Chanted Vespers is a beautiful and traditional way of worship in our faith.

A Plea for Beauty in the Sacred Liturgy

13 January 2019 Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Cardinal Sarah, Divine Office, Exhortations, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Meditations, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Saint John Paul II, Rants, Rev. Gabriel Mosher OP, Rev. Kyle Mangloña, The Sacred Liturgy

Superman fights for “truth, justice, and the American way!” We should fight for the three transcendentals: truth, beauty, and goodness. The transcendentals were known to the Ancient Greeks, but Catholic theologians quickly baptized them into their study of philosophy and theology. Transcendentals are the timeless and universal attributes of being. They are the properties of all beings, as well as […]

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