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A Liturgical Lent: a Review and a Look Forward

20 February 2018 Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Francine my love, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, OCIA, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Jerry Sherbourne, Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Review, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

At my parish of Holy Rosary in Tacoma, we had a lot going on for this first weekend of Lent. Think of this as a look into the life of a parish pursuing the vision of the New Liturgical Movement during Lent. You could almost consider this a snapshot review of our parish liturgical life. Friday Although not strictly liturgical, […]

Parish Lenten Calendar, 2018

14 February 2018 Divine Office, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Prayer, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

Come join us for some of these liturgies and devotions this Lent! This Lenten Calendar is obviously in addition to our normal Mass schedule at Holy Rosary: Saturday Vigil: 5:00 PM (preceded by Adoration, Rosary, Benediction) Sunday: 12:00 PM (with asperges and Angelus) Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 7:15 AM (followed by Rosary) Friday School Mass: 9:00 AM Plus, don’t forget simple […]

Ash Wednesday

14 February 2018 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Michael Wagner, 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 […]

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 Dedication of an Altar

14 January 2018 2015 transitions - Holy Rosary / St. Joseph, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg, community, Moments in Time, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Michael Stinson F.S.S.P., Rev. Michael Wagner, Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy

The Dedication of an Altar is a rare ritual in the church. Normally, it takes place within the larger dedication of a church or chapel. However, this coming week, Bishop Daniel Mueggenborg will be dedicating a new altar at one of our local Tacoma parishes. The altar in question was originally commissioned by the parish of Saint Joseph and its […]

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 […]

Not No Saints

30 December 2017 Annual, Chant, Saints, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

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 Roman Martyrology. This is one of those liturgical books […]

O Emmanuel

23 December 2017 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, […]

O Rex Gentium

22 December 2017 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Latin, Seasons

With Christmas just days away now, we hear the penultimate O Antiphon this evening. I mentioned a couple of days ago that the antiphons might sound vaguely familiar to you. In the 12th Century, an unknown composer compiled versions of the O Antiphons into a single Advent hymn, called Veni, Veni Emmanuel. You know the English version as O Come, […]

O Oriens

21 December 2017 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, History, Holy Days, Latin, Seasons

light in the darkness

It is altogether right and proper that we should celebrate Christ as the bringer of light on this, the day of the winter solstice. This was an ancient holy day in many religions, as indeed it continues to be. On this, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, where people for eons have begged their divinity for […]

O Clavis David

20 December 2017 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Latin, Seasons

Continuing on with our annual tradition, we come closer and closer to the birth of the Messiah, “the holy one, the true, who holds the key of David, who opens and no one shall close, who closes and no one shall open” (Revelation 3:7). The key is the symbol of authority. Christ is the Key of the House of David […]

O Radix Jesse

19 December 2017 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, History, Holy Days, Latin, Seasons

By now some of you might be thinking that the O Antiphon words are sounding kind of familiar, even though you’re not really up on your Gregorian Chant. In fact, these antiphons are some of the earliest attested antiphons in the Divine Office, being mentioned in passing in the works of Saint Boethius in the early sixth century. They’re rooted […]

Rorate Cæli

18 December 2017 Chant, community, Francine my love, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Mary, Moments in Time, Rev. Kyle Mangloña, Rev. Michael Wagner, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

This past Saturday, our parish of Holy Rosary celebrated a Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This particular tradition is known as the Rorate Mass, for the first word of its entrance antiphon (Introit): Roráte cæli désuper, et núbes plúant jústum. Aperiatur terra et germinet salvatorem. Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain the […]

O Adonai

18 December 2017 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Latin, Prayer, Seasons

Today is the second “O” antiphon, O Adonai. O Sovereign Lord! O Adonaï! come and redeem us, not by thy power, but by thy humility. Heretofore, thou didst show thyself to Moses thy servant in the midst of a mysterious flame; thou didst give thy law to thy people amidst thunder and lightning; now, on the contrary, thou comest not […]

O Sapiéntia

17 December 2017 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Latin, Seasons, Wisdom

O Wisdom! Advent is drawing to its close, and it’s time again for our annual look at the O Antiphons. These antiphons are part of the prayers at the liturgical hour of Vespers for the 17th through the 23rd of December – the 24th is of course the Christmas Vigil itself. They are ancient prayers, possibly dating back to the […]

The Extraordinary Form and Mutual Enrichment

28 November 2017 Dom Matthew Britt O.S.B., Latin, Meditations, Moments in Time, Pope Benedict XVI, Rev. Caleb Insco F.S.S.P., Saint Joseph Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy

This morning for the first time I served at a public Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. It was a votive Mass of Saint Joseph, celebrated at Saint Joseph church in Tacoma by the Rev. Caleb Insco, F.S.S.P. This is only the second time I’ve served at the Vetus Ordo, and I was extremely nervous. Throughout the […]

Advent Vespers

28 November 2017 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 celebrating Vespers in the church on Sundays at 6:00 PM. Please join us! There’s nothing like chanted Vespers in a beautiful, echoing church to pull the heart and mind towards the Lord.

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