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The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

31 May 2018 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, inside baseball, Latin, Mary, Prayer, Rants

Mary’s month of May draws to a close with the Feast of the Visitation. This feast celebrates the visit of Mary, pregnant with Jesus, to her cousin Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Baptist (Luke 1:39-56). So this feast is a celebration of the very first Christian community, consisting of two pregnant mothers and their unborn children. Saint Luke’s account culminates […]

Octave

07 April 2018 Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Holy Days, inside baseball, Meditations, Moments in Time, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Seasons

There are two kinds of time. There’s the kind you can measure. That’s the kind we live through sequentially, moment to moment. The Greek word for this is “kronos”, where we get words like “chronometer” and “chronicle”. Then, there’s the other kind. The Greeks call this “kairos”. This is the time when God acts, when eternity breaks into linear time. […]

Candlemas

02 February 2018 Francine my love, Fun, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Mary, Rev. Michael Wagner, The Sacred Liturgy

Today was once one of the most solemn feasts of the year. It’s gone by several names over the millennia: the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Candlemas. Coming forty days after Christmas, it was even once the end of the Christmas season. Even today there are relics of […]

The Epiphany!

06 January 2018 Divine Office, Holy Days, inside baseball, Seasons

Happy Epiphany! Throughout most of the world, today is the great Feast of the Epiphany. Most of my American readers, however, will have to wait until tomorrow. For reasons I can’t quite fathom, in the dioceses of the United States this feast has been moved to the Sunday between January 2 and January 8. Why you would want to move […]

Saint Cecilia and the Future of Chant

22 November 2017 Annual, Chant, inside baseball, Polyphony, Prayer, Saints, The Sacred Liturgy

Saint Cecilia is one of the most famous and most venerated of Roman martyrs. Legend has it that she, her husband Valerian, and her brother-in-law Tiburtius were martyred during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus, about the year 230. Her name appears in the First Eucharistic Prayer (the Roman Canon) among Rome’s other beloved martyrs, and when Christianity became legal […]

Restoring the Sacred

17 October 2017 Dreams and Visions, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, The Sacred Liturgy

In the past week or so, I have spoken with several people about our liturgical strategic plan at our parish of Holy Rosary. We talk about the ideal liturgical life of the parish, about our constraints in terms of people and resources, and about what steps we can take to transcend our limitations and move forward. I thought I might […]

Ad Orientem Training

23 September 2017 Cardinal Sarah, Francine my love, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Moments in Time, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Michael Wagner, The Sacred Liturgy

At our parish of Holy Rosary, we sometimes celebrate Mass on the High Altar. This method, where for much of the Eucharistic prayer the Priest and the people are facing the same direction, is known as ad Orientem. For many years, we have celebrated Mass this way at the Solemnity of Corpus Christi and at least one Sunday in Advent. […]

The Feast of Saint James

25 July 2017 Annual, Camino, History, inside baseball, Prayer, Saints

Today is the Feast of Saint James the Greater, known throughout the Spanish-speaking world as Santiago. He was one of Christ’s Twelve Apostles. He is the patron saint of the archdiocese of Seattle, and therefore today is a solemnity within the archdiocese. I am saddened that no Tacoma parish seems to be celebrating an evening Mass for this occasion. James […]

Summorum Pontificum: Tenth Anniversary

07 July 2017 History, inside baseball, Latin, Pope Benedict XVI, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

TEN years ago today, Pope Benedict XVI caused to be published the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. With the stroke of a pen, the ancient rites of the Mass (last edited in 1962) could suddenly be celebrated by any priest of the Roman Rite. Deo gratias! This ancient form of the Mass, the so-called Extraordinary Form, is a great gift to […]

Accept Hard Things with Patience and Even Temper

02 June 2017 community, inside baseball, Meditations, The Sacred Liturgy

Yesterday evening we had a rehearsal for our Confirmation Mass, to be celebrated tonight. It was a chaotic affair, with Altar Servers, Confirmandi, Sponsors, family, and of course Catechists and Clergy. I wasn’t herding cats so much as juggling them. I was hoping that we could be out of there in an hour and a half. In the end, it […]

The Visitation

31 May 2017 Annual, Divine Office, inside baseball, Mary, Prayer, Rants

Mary’s month of May draws to a close with the Feast of the Visitation. This feast celebrates the visit of Mary, pregnant with Jesus, to her cousin Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Baptist (Luke 1:39-56). So this feast is a celebration of the very first Christian community, consisting of two pregnant mothers and their unborn children. Saint Luke’s account culminates […]

Tenebræ Debrief

13 April 2017 Chant, community, Divine Office, Francine my love, Holy Days, inside baseball, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

Last night’s Tenebræ service was incredibly powerful. There were probably a hundred people in attendance, and we had half a dozen servers and the full choir. Fr. Wichert led. And the choir! Oh, they were fantastic! The last anthem, sung in absolute darkness, was absolutely heavenly. On a personal note, this is one of my favourite (para)liturgies that we celebrate […]

Holy Week, Busy Week

12 April 2017 community, Deacon Gary Rose, Francine my love, Holy Days, inside baseball, Rev. Jerry Sherbourne, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

Every year I take vacation during Holy Week. There are a couple of reasons for this, both spiritual and practical. On the spiritual level, I find that I need time to prepare myself. There may have been some work in the garden the past couple of days. I may also have resumed my habit from earlier in Lent of praying […]

Vesting Prayers

29 March 2017 Exhortations, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Prayer, resources, The Sacred Liturgy

One of my volunteer positions at my parish is that of MC and Altar Server coordinator. Since I started in that position, we’ve made any number of changes. One of the simplest and most profound, though, was the reintroduction of Vesting Prayers. And what are they? In the immemorial tradition of the Roman Rite, certain prayers were recited while vesting […]

Lectionary Confluence

18 March 2017 inside baseball, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

On Thursday, I unexpectedly found myself at two daily Masses, the first in the Extraordinary Form, and the second in the Ordinary Form. The differences were stark – made even more so by the fact that the Ordinary Form Mass was a School Mass and thus the readings were done by schoolchildren, and the homily was preached to them. The […]

Personal Prelature for the SSPX?

13 February 2017 inside baseball, The Sacred Liturgy

The Catholic Herald and numerous other sources are reporting that the Vatican and the SSPX are “close to agreement”. How close? Rome is even pencilling in dates: May 13, the centenary of the Fatima apparitions, and July 7, the 10th anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, in which Benedict swept away restrictions on the celebration of the Old Mass. Mainstream traditionalists are […]

Twelfth Night

05 January 2017 Family, Holy Days, inside baseball, Pistachio House, Seasons

Happy twelfth day of Christmas! I hope you’re enjoying your twelve drummers drumming. This evening is called Twelfth Night, traditionally the vigil of the Epiphany. In my Monastic Diurnal, Epiphany begins with tonight’s Vespers. This was traditionally a time of feasting and festivity (all of which seem to include various varieties of enormous pastries) marking the end of Christmastide and […]

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