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On Obedience and Confusion

30 December 2016 Archbishop Alexander K. Sample, Catechism, Church and State, G.K. Chesterton, inside baseball, Meditations, Moments in Time, Pope Francis I, Saints

Happy sixth day of Christmas! Yesterday was the memorial of the splendid Saint Thomas Becket. Having the birth name “Thomas”, I take Becket and Aquinas as patrons, and I normally write something about the saint here each year. Yesterday snuck up on me. In addition to working, I attended an early Mass at Saint Joseph, walked home, and then there […]

Misericordia et Miseria

21 November 2016 inside baseball, Jubilee, Moments in Time, Pope Francis I

For the close of the Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has released an Apostolic Letter Misericordia et Miseria, “Mercy and Misery”. MISERICORDIA ET MISERA is a phrase used by Saint Augustine in recounting the story of Jesus’ meeting with the woman taken in adultery (cf. Jn 8:1-11). It would be difficult to imagine a more beautiful or apt […]

New Benedictine Abbot Primate Elected

10 September 2016 inside baseball, Moments in Time, Vocation

This morning, on September 10, 2016, Abbot Gregory Polan, O.S.B., of Conception Abbey, Conception, Mo., was elected Abbot Primate of the 1500-year-old Benedictine Order at the Congress of Abbots meeting in Rome, Italy held every four years. As head of the Benedictine Confederation, Abbot Gregory will be the unifying head of the worlds 7,000 Benedictine monks and become the abbot […]

Sacred Liturgy Conference

01 September 2016 Archbishop Alexander K. Sample, Chant, Divine Office, inside baseball, Latin, Moments in Time, Prayer, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Sacred Liturgy Conference, The Sacred Liturgy, Vocation

This weekend, me and a couple of guys are taking a road trip and heading over to Mount Angel Abbey for the 2016 Sacred Liturgy Conference. I realize that this is not what most folks do on their Labor Day Weekend, but I’m pretty comfortable in my eccentricities. Here’s the intro from the press release: The Oregon Sacred Liturgy Conference […]

The Feast of Saint James

25 July 2016 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. Last […]

Of Benedict and His Monks

11 July 2016 Chant, Clear Creek Abbey, Divine Office, inside baseball, Moments in Time, Saints, The Sacred Liturgy, Vocation

Happy Saint Benedict’s Day! Today is the principal feast of the founder of western monasticism: the author of the Holy Rule, and a great saint. Over the course of the last decade and more, new monastic institutions with many young monks and sisters are beginning to flourish throughout the world. For the last few years, I’ve made it my habit […]

Summorum Pontificum at Nine

07 July 2016 History, inside baseball, Latin, Pope Benedict XVI, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., The Sacred Liturgy

NINE 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 […]

A New Feast

10 June 2016 Cardinal Sarah, inside baseball, Moments in Time, Pope Francis I, Saints, The Sacred Liturgy

Vatican Radio is reporting that Pope Francis has raised the Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene to the rank of a Feast. This puts the celebration of the “Apostle to the Apostles” on par with those of the men to whom she announced the Resurrection. In a letter announcing the change, the Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the […]

Corpus Christi Retrospective Part 2:
In Procession

03 June 2016 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 […]

Corpus Christi Retrospective Part 1:
Ad Orientem

02 June 2016 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 […]

The Visitation

31 May 2016 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 […]

Practice and Celebration

28 May 2016 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, […]

Called, Not Chosen

08 February 2016 Bishop Frank Schuster, community, Francine my love, inside baseball, Meditations, Moments in Time, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Vocation

Last Friday morning, I was struck particularly by a psalm from the Office for Saint Agatha: O God, my God, for Thee I long at break of day: My soul thirsteth for Thee, my body longeth for Thee, As desert, arid land: thus I appear before Thee in the sanctuary, to see Thy power and Thy glory. For Thy mercy […]

Twelfth Night

05 January 2016 Family, Holy Days, inside baseball, Pistachio House, Seasons

Happy twelfth day of Christmas! This evening is called Twelfth Night, traditionally the vigil of the Epiphany. 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 the beginning of Epiphanytide. These days, of course, the calendar has been moved around a bit and […]

An Illation Conundrum

03 December 2015 Divine Office, inside baseball, Saints

Tomorrow on my Benedictine calendar is something called “Illation of the Relics of Saint Benedict”. I have absolutely no idea what this may mean. There are two feasts of Saint Benedict with which I am familiar: March 21: date of the saint’s death (I Class Feast on the Benedictine Calendar) July 11: in commemoration of the translation of his relics […]

Notes on the Transitions,
Number 1 in a Series

23 July 2015 2015 transitions - Holy Rosary / St. Joseph, community, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Latin, Moments in Time, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Kenneth Baker S.J., Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma

The very clever amongst you no doubt noticed in my previous post that our new pastor was not named pastor of both of our parishes. Let me explain. The parishes of Holy Rosary and St. Joseph have been joined at the hip for something like twenty years. They were first consolidated under a single pastor during the last of our […]

Bishop-Elect Robert Barron

21 July 2015 Bishop Robert Barron, History, inside baseball, Moments in Time, Pope Francis I

The headline says it all. I cannot imagine better news on a Tuesday morning. I’m more than slightly stunned. He was only appointed Rector of Mundelein Seminary three years ago. At that time I wrote: As both of my long-time readers know, I am a fan of Fr. Robert Barron. His Catholicism Project is to religion what Carl Sagan’s Cosmos […]

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