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Notes on the Transitions,
Number 3 in a Series

06 August 2015 2015 transitions - Holy Rosary / St. Joseph, community, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Meditations, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert

Last night, the Holy Rosary Transition Team met for the first time with our new pastor, Very Rev. Nicholas Wichert, as well as our current pastor, Rev. Jacob Maurer. The meeting was ably facilitated by a number of folks from the Archdiocese, including Deacon Eric Paige and Leigh Stringfellow from the office of the Vicar of Clergy. They were great, […]

On a Mission from God

01 August 2015 Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Mary, Pope Francis I, Rev. Jacob Maurer, The Sacred Liturgy

This morning, we were privileged to meet the young lady in this photo. She served with us at the Saturday Mass on the Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori. Her name is Kara Jackson. She has Down syndrome. Kara is an Altar Server in her home parish in Ohio, and God has asked her to serve at the altar in all […]

Notes on the Transitions,
Number 2 in a Series

31 July 2015 2015 transitions - Holy Rosary / St. Joseph, community, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy, Very Rev. Gary Zender

A week or so ago, Saint Joseph held a “town hall” to discuss the upcoming changes as they transition to an Extraordinary Form parish under their new pastor, Rev. Michael Stinson, FSSP. There were 44 parishioners in attendance, as well as Fr. Maurer and the Vicar of Clergy for the Archdiocese of Seattle, the Very Rev. Gary Zender. It seems […]

Feast of Saint James

25 July 2015 Annual, Camino, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Saints, The Sacred Liturgy

On today’s Feast of Saint James, Father Maurer celebrated Mass at Holy Rosary. I served with six other servers, including our Seminarian guest, Chad Green. Since Saint James is the patron saint of our Archdiocese, we pulled out all the stops, including incense. Unheard of for a Saturday Mass! Chad and I more or less immediately afterwards served at a […]

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 […]

Officially Official

17 July 2015 2015 transitions - Holy Rosary / St. Joseph, community, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert

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One Small Step

28 June 2015 Francine my love, Moments in Time, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Vocation

Yesterday, Francine and I drove up to Sacred Heart church in Fairhaven, near Bellingham, to attend an informational session on the Diaconate. We put about 250 miles on the car. The talk was given by the director of the program, Rev. Frank Schuster. It was videotaped, so I’m sure it will be available on the Archdiocese’s web page presently. Francine […]

The State of a Parish in Transition

15 June 2015 2015 transitions - Holy Rosary / St. Joseph, community, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Moments in Time, Prayer, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

Years ago, when we were parishioners at St. Rita, our long-time pastor retired. At that time, I wrote what has oddly become one of the most Googled posts on this blog, Hopes and Prayers for a New Pastor. At that time, I said: Being a pastor is one of the most difficult jobs in the world, I think. The responsibility […]

Consolations of the Feast

08 June 2015 community, Francine my love, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Mary, Moments in Time, Pope Benedict XVI, Rev. Jacob Maurer, The Sacred Liturgy, Vocation

Several things crowd my mind this morning. Chiefly, I’m still processing the Corpus Christi Masses and procession we celebrated at our parish yesterday. But first, a slight digression. Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces On the calendar used in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces. I wrote an article several […]

Please Join us Tonight for the Great Vigil of Easter

04 April 2015 Blog Ephemera, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Jacob Maurer, The Sacred Liturgy

If you live in western Washington, I invite you to join us for the Easter Vigil at Our Lady of the Holy Rosary in Tacoma. The Vigil will begin at 9:00 PM, but you’ll want to get there early. Featuring: A bonfire. A dark church and a thousand candles. Chant (in Latin AND English). Seven readings from the Old Testament […]

Tenebræ Recap

02 April 2015 Chant, community, Deacon Gary Rose, Divine Office, Holy Days, inside baseball, Rev. Jacob Maurer, The Sacred Liturgy

Last night’s Tenebræ service was sublime. It lasted about an hour and a half, and just being in that gathering in deepening darkness as the sound of chanted prayer filled the church was an experience I’ll not soon forget. We had about eighty or so people there – far more than we had anticipated. We only printed about thirty service […]

Vespers

23 February 2015 Chant, Divine Office, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Prayer, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Seasons

For the first time since the last of the Benedictines left our parish, possibly longer, we celebrated chanted Vespers in the church last night. So that’s the first time in twenty years at least. Probably closer to forty. It was glorious. I really wish somebody had thought to take photos. We had originally printed thirty booklets for the congregation, but […]

The Epiphany

06 January 2015 Family, Holy Days, Meditations, Pistachio House, Rev. Jacob Maurer, The Sacred Liturgy

Throughout most of the world, today is the great Feast of the Epiphany. My American readers, however, will recall celebrating the feast this past Sunday. 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. Needless to say, this upsets the whole “Twelve […]

Rejoice! Rejoice!

24 December 2014 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Latin, Prayer, Rev. Jacob Maurer, The Sacred Liturgy

As I do every year, I shall end this Advent chant sequence with the hymn assembled from the O Antiphons. I‘ve also posted one of my favourite carols, which is particularly appropriate in the deeps of Christmas Vigil. Come to Midnight Mass! For those of you in Tacoma and environs, I invite you to come to our parish of Our […]

Reflections on the Mass of the Immaculate Conception

08 December 2014 community, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Mary, Meditations, Moments in Time, Prayer, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Silence, The Sacred Liturgy, Vocation

Normally, we ask the servers, lectors, and extraordinary ministers to arrive thirty minutes before Mass. I was coming from work, and due to the train schedule I arrived an hour before Mass was scheduled to begin. I walked from the train station to the church in a refreshingly cool evening rain. Father was hearing Confessions, and there were a small […]

Congratulations Father Maurer!

01 July 2014 Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Holy Days, inside baseball, Moments in Time, Rev. Jacob Maurer

The Most Rev. J. Peter Sartain, having carefully assessed the needs of the People of God in the Archdiocese of Seattle, and after careful consultation with the Christian Faithful and the Priest Personnel Board, makes the following pastoral appointments in accord with the 1983 Code of Canon Law, effective July 1, 2014, unless otherwise noted.

Ad Multos Annos!

13 June 2014 Chant, community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, inside baseball, Moments in Time, Pope Benedict XVI, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Saints, The Sacred Liturgy, Vocation

Today on the Feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, I was privileged to serve at Mass for the fifth anniversary of the ordination of a good and holy priest, Rev Jacob Maurer. I rearranged my work from home day to be at the 8:00AM Mass. Our visiting seminarian, Peter Guthrie, was the principal server. I enjoy serving with Peter because […]

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