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The World is Quiet Here

Our 2018 in Review

31 December 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, Blog Ephemera, Camino, community, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Family, Francine my love, Fun, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Pistachio House, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Rev. Martin Bourke, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Sacred Liturgy Conference

This has been a crazy year. Here at Pistachio House, we had designated 2018 as the “Year of Hygge“. This was going to be the year that we concentrated on coziness. Pistachio House would be finally made into the cozy home we imagined. There would be coffee cake, walks, and new furnishings. It started out strongly enough, and it certainly […]

Rorate Mass Resources – in the Ordinary Form

12 December 2018 Chant, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Latin, Mary, resources, The Sacred Liturgy

Last year about this time, our parish of Holy Rosary celebrated a Rorate Mass in the Ordinary Form. And what, pray tell, is a Rorate Mass? The name comes from the opening words of the Entrance Antiphon, Rorate cæli desuper, Latin for “Drop down dew, ye heavens”. The Rorate Mass is a Solemn Votive Mass in honor of the Blessed […]

Advent Vespers

29 November 2018 Annual, Chant, community, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma

This Advent, as in past years, our parish of Holy Rosary in Tacoma will be chanting Vespers on Sunday evenings. Because of the damage to our beautiful church, this year we’re celebrating Vespers the school auditorium. I know, I know, the poster says the chapel, but we decided at the last moment that the chapel perhaps wouldn’t hold everybody. The […]

Day of Wrath, O Day of Mourning!

14 November 2018 Chant, Dom Matthew Britt O.S.B., History, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Prayer, The Sacred Liturgy

Appropriate to today – the Feast of All Souls of the Benedictine Order – we once again have the Dies Iræ, the traditional sequence for Requiem Masses and the Masses of All Souls. Today we pray for the souls of all Benedictine monks, nuns, sisters, and oblates in purgatory. Most probably written by Servant of God Thomas of Celano near […]

Holy Rosary Memory Book Finally Published!

31 October 2018 community, History, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Quasquicentennial

Thank you all for your help and encouragement over the past three years as we worked on this project. Two years ago, we celebrated Holy Rosary’s Quasquicentennial – the 125th Anniversary of our parish. Now, the Holy Rosary Parish Commemorative book is finally available for purchase! This beautiful, full-color coffee table book includes a full history of the first 125 […]

Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary

06 October 2018 Annual, Francine my love, History, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Mary, Prayer

Tomorrow is the feast of the Most Holy Rosary. For most of the Catholic world, this is a memorial of various sorts. Since, however, my parish is dedicated to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, for us it is a Solemnity. Huzzah! If you are in the Tacoma area, please head over for the Mass of the feast, either tonight […]

Blessing the Pilgrims

30 September 2018 Camino, community, Deacon James Fish, Francine my love, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma

Just after the Noon Mass at our parish of Holy Rosary, Deacon Jim Fish bestowed the traditional Pilgrims’ Blessing on Francine and I – not to mention our “rucksacks”, “staves”, and shell and rosary. The blessing itself is ancient. In its current form it appears the Missal of Vich Cathedral, Barcelona, Spain, dated to AD 1078. We’re extremely grateful to […]

Farewell to Father Francis

26 June 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, community, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Rev. Michael Wagner

For the last six weeks or so, our parish of Holy Rosary has been under the pastoral care of Father Francis Xavier Kikomeko. Father is from Uganda, and he spends his summers vacationing in the Seattle Archdiocese, filling in and helping out where he can. We are so grateful to Father! He is solid, orthodox, and joyful. Pretty much everything […]

The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

08 June 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Annual, Chant, Deacon James Fish, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Meditations, Pope Saint John Paul II, Prayer, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Martin Bourke, Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert

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 […]

We Walk by Faith

06 June 2018 Camino, community, Francine my love, Fun, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy

Last weekend, my beautiful bride Francine and I did some walking, and it got me to thinking about the spirituality of walking. I’m always amazed at what you can accomplish by walking. Modern psychologists say that walking makes us smarter, but the idea is hardly original to them. Solvitur ambulando – It is solved by walking. (Saint Augustine) This is […]

Corpus Christi

31 May 2018 Annual, community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, 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 sixth year we’ve taken Jesus through the streets of Tacoma and amongst His people. Our interim priest, Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, will celebrate the Noon Mass of Corpus Christi at the high altar, and eleven children of […]

Changes, 2018

20 May 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Deacon James Fish, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Francis Xavier Kikomeko, Rev. Martin Bourke, The Sacred Liturgy

It seems like lately, we’re doing this every year. As was announced at the Masses this weekend, Holy Rosary and Visitation Parishes in Tacoma are getting a new pastoral team. Instead of a single priest, however, we’re getting a deacon and a priest, and their roles are not what you might expect. The Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain is appointing […]

The Vigil of Pentecost

19 May 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, 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 […]

Funeral Mass

10 May 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, community, Deacon Mike Teskey, Francine my love, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Rev. Kyle Mangloña, Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy, Very Rev. Gary Zender

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In Paradisum

09 May 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Chant, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Michael Wagner

In paradisum deducant te Angeli; in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres, et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem. Chorus angelorum te suscipiat, et cum Lazaro quondam paupere æternam habeas requiem. May the angels lead you into paradise; may the martyrs receive you at your arrival and lead you to the holy city Jerusalem. May choirs of angels receive you and […]

Lacrimosa Dies Illa

05 May 2018 2018 transitions in Tacoma, Chant, community, Divine Office, Francine my love, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

The Reverend Michael Wagner passed to God in the early morning hours of May 2, 2018. Since then, we’ve been caught in the whirlwind of planning and work, with hardly a moment to take it all in. On the night of his death, our parishes came together to chant Solemn Vespers from the Office for the Dead. Rev. Nicholas Wichert, […]

+J.M.J.+

01 May 2018 Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Mary, Meditations, Prayer, Rev. Kyle Mangloña, Rev. Michael Wagner, Saints

Mary’s month of May begins with a day for her husband. Today, celebrated around the world as “International Workers’ Day” is the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker. There’s poetry to the fact that the month dedicated to the Blessed Virgin begins by putting the focus on her husband, and therefore on their family life. Imagine the Holy Family of […]

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