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11 April 2020 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Prayer, The Sacred Liturgy

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Maundy Thursday: Do This in Memory of Me

09 April 2020 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Polyphony, Prayer, The Sacred Liturgy

The Season of Lent comes to its end this evening, as we celebrate the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. This celebration commemorates the institution of the Eucharist, the source and summit of Church life, as well as the sacred priesthood which offers this sacrifice. Unlike most Protestants, the Catholic and Orthodox (and others of the Apostolic Tradition) believe that God […]

Tenebræ

08 April 2020 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

Since 2015, our parish of Holy Rosary has celebrated a Tenebræ service on Wednesday of Holy Week. This year, we are unable to do so, but below I’ll provide information on how you can join our former pastor, Father Wichert, in celebrating. What is Tenebræ? Tenebræ Begins The word itself is Latin for “shadows”. It is a Holy Week service […]

Hosanna!

04 April 2020 Annual, Holy Days, Moments in Time, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

This weekend, Holy Week begins with the Sunday of Lord’s triumphal entry into Jersusalem – Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. Although Good Friday is coming – the Passion and Death are coming – for the moment, this moment, joy resounds as our King arrives in His city. In most parishes throughout the world, the principal Mass is normally celebrated […]

A Holy Week Like No Other

03 April 2020 Archbishop Paul Etienne, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, resources, Rev. Justin McCreedy OSB, The Sacred Liturgy

Our parish of Holy Rosary will not be streaming any Holy Week or Easter liturgies this year. We want to protect Father Justin’s health! So instead, we’ve put together some recommendations. First and foremost, Archbishop Etienne will be live streaming the Holy Week and Easter liturgies from Saint James Cathedral, and we encourage you to view and to take part at home […]

Gratitude

22 March 2020 Francine my love, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Jacob Maurer, The Sacred Liturgy

On Lætare Sunday in 2012, Francine and I first attended Holy Rosary church for Mass. I described the event at the time like this: Rev. Jacob Maurer, First Mass, June 13, 2009 Something simply extraordinary happened today. This afternoon, I attended the Sacred Liturgy and participated in the Mass for the Fourth Sunday of Lent (Lætare Sunday), and it was […]

Prayer in a Time of Plague

18 March 2020 Archbishop Paul Etienne, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, Deacon James Fish, Mary, Moments in Time, Pope Francis I, Prayer, resources, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Matt Fish, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Saints, The Sacred Liturgy

Pope Francis calls on everyone to pray the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary tomorrow, the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, at 9:00pm Rome time invoking “Our Lady, Health of the Sick and Saint Joseph, to protect our families from coronavirus COVID-19, especially the ill and those who are caring for the sick, the doctors, nurses, who are risking their lives”. This […]

Ash Wednesday

26 February 2020 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” And with those words, our Lent has begun. Holy Mother Church calls us to make these next forty days until Easter a time of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. Lent is a pilgrimage, in a sense, through time if not space, through death to resurrection. A pilgrimage of penitence. Let […]

The Rubrics of Lent

26 February 2020 Annual, General Instruction of the Roman Missal, Pope Francis I, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

Pope Francis, Ash Wednesday stational procession, 2020

Today, we begin the season of Lent with Ash Wednesday. The modern Roman Missal has a set of rubrics that cover the whole of Lent, before digging into each day separately. Most folks are familiar with number 4, and I’d venture to say that 3 is not exactly unknown to priests and ministers, if not the folks in the pews. […]

Septuagesima Sunday

09 February 2020 Annual, Dom Guéranger, Holy Days, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

Today is Septuagesima Sunday, the beginning of a liturgical season known as Septuagesima or Fore-Lent or Shrovetide. It consists of the three weeks immediately before the start of Lent, and indeed the name Septuagesima means seventy, in reference to Quadragesima – forty – which is the proper Latin name for Lent. This liturgical season, meant to prepare us for the […]

Saint Romuald

07 February 2020 Divine Office, Saints

My monastic Breviary contains memorials and feasts for many saints who fell off the General Calendar in 1969 (or who had their feasts demoted and/or moved). Since I don’t know much about many of these saints, I’ve been frequently supplementing with the Matins readings of the day. These readings often give short hagiographies of the saint. Today is the feast […]

Candlemas

02 February 2020 Annual, Francine my love, Fun, Holy Days, inside baseball, Mary, Rev. Michael Wagner, Seasons, 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 […]

Epiphany!

06 January 2020 Annual, Divine Office, Holy Days, Meditations, Prayer, Seasons

Happy Epiphany, probably! In a sense, the Feast of the Epiphany is the culmination (if not quite the end) of the Christmas Season. It was once a much more celebrated feast than it is now. In fact, it once had its own Octave. Like many others, I’d love to see that restored. In the popular imagination, the Feast of the […]

The Eighth Day of Christmas: Mary, Mother of God

01 January 2020 Annual, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mary, Prayer, Seasons

All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady. (J.R.R. Tolkien) Wishing all of you a very happy new year of 2020, and a most blessed Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Mother of God, celebrated today on the Octave Day of Christmas. “Do whatever He tells you” (John 2:5) Let us […]

The 10 Most Popular Posts of 2019

30 December 2019 2018 transitions in Tacoma, 2019 Transitions in Tacoma, Annual, Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Blog Ephemera, community, Deacon James Fish, Divine Office, Fun, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Prayer, Rev. Carmine Sacco S.J., Rev. Michael Wagner, The Sacred Liturgy

Who doesn’t like top ten lists? These are the top ten post hits on the blog for this past year. Not all of the posts receiving the hits were necessarily written this year. Apparently, their appeal is enduring. In addition, for posts that are part of a numbered series (Novena to the Holy Deacons, I’m looking at you), I’ve only […]

The Sixth Day of Christmas: Not No Saints

30 December 2019 Annual, Chant, Saints, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

Saint Sabinus preaching the Gospel before the governor Venustian Happy sixth day of Christmas! Today is the first day of the Christmas Octave that is not otherwise also a solemnity, feast, or memorial. That does not mean, however, that there aren’t other saints we could celebrate today in some form. Today might be a good time to talk about the […]

O Emmanuel

23 December 2019 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Latin, Seasons

We come to the last of the O Antiphons, for tomorrow is Christmas Eve, the great Vigil of the Nativity. I mentioned yesterday that the O Antiphons were arranged backward into the song Veni, Veni Emmanuel. This was by design, for the Antiphons themselves are a backward acrostic. The first letters of the Messianic titles — Emmanuel, Rex, Oriens, Clavis, […]

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