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The World is Quiet Here

O Sapiéntia

17 December 2016 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Latin, Prayer, 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 […]

Advent Vespers

27 November 2016 Chant, community, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Nicholas Wichert

This Advent, my parish of Holy Rosary in Tacoma will be celebrating Vespers in the church on Sundays at 6:00 PM. Please join us! There’s noting like chanted Vespers in a beautiful, echoing church to pull the heart and mind towards the Lord. Please note that due to last minute changes in Fr. Wichert’s schedule, we will only have solemn […]

Initial Reflections on the Quasquicentennial

18 October 2016 Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, community, Deacon Mike Teskey, Francine my love, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Mary, Moments in Time, Quasquicentennial, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy, Vocation

This past Sunday, my parish of Holy Rosary celebrated its 125th anniversary – our Quasquicentennial. The project for this celebration was started several years ago by Dr Michael Barkley, a gentleman from the parish who deserves all credit for getting this ball rolling. His great-grandparents were in fact the first couple married at the parish, back in October of 1891. […]

On the Feast of Saint Luke

18 October 2016 Annual, Chant, Divine Office, Saints

Saint Luke is my kind of writer. Luke the historian and Luke the lyrical poet are both in evidence in his New Testament writings, his Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. He freely admits that he never met Christ in the flesh, that he was not a witness to the events he describes in his Gospel. Like any good […]

Today!

16 October 2016 Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, community, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Mary, Moments in Time, Quasquicentennial, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

Quasquicentennial!

11 October 2016 Bishop Eusebio Elizondo MSpS, Chant, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Latin, Mary, Moments in Time, Quasquicentennial, Rev. Jacob Maurer, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

If you are anywhere near Tacoma this weekend, please join us on Sunday for the 125th anniversary of the founding of our parish. The Mass is at Noon, and it will be followed by a reception in the School hall. Here’s the blurb from one of our local papers: Holy Rosary’s steeple rises above downtown Tacoma and towers over I-5. […]

The Most Holy Rosary

07 October 2016 Annual, Divine Office, Francine my love, History, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Mary, Prayer, Quasquicentennial

Today is the feast of the Most Holy Rosary. For most of the Catholic world, this is a memorial of various sorts. Since, however, my parish is dedicated to Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, for me it is a Solemnity. Always a happy thing on a Friday! Through a weird happenstance, there isn’t actually a Mass being celebrated at […]

Our Lady of Sorrows

15 September 2016 Annual, Divine Office, Mary, Meditations

Whither is thy Beloved gone, O thou most beautiful among women? Whither is thy Beloved turned aside, and we will seek Him with thee? We begin with the first antiphon of Lauds for today’s feast of The Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Monastic Diurnal. The Blessed Virgin Mary is sometimes called Our Lady of Sorrows – […]

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 Assumption

15 August 2016 community, Francine my love, Holy Days, Latin, Mary, Moments in Time, Saint Patrick Parish in Tacoma, The Sacred Liturgy

Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army set in array? (Benedictus antiphon, Monastic Office of Lauds for the Assumption) Today’s great Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which in the East is known as the Dormition of the Theotokos, is one that […]

Vespers for the Feast of Saint James

25 July 2016 Chant, Divine Office, Holy Days, Saints

Chanted from the version given in the Codex Calixtinus, so neither Ordinary nor Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, but predating both. I believe it may be from the Mozarabic Rite.

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 […]

Saint John’s Eve

23 June 2016 Chant, Divine Office, Meditations, Moments in Time, Pistachio House, Prayer, Saints

Tomorrow being the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, today is Saint John’s Eve. Throughout much of Europe, the tradition on this day is to light bonfires. Here’s ours. Not much of a bonfire, strictly speaking, but we do live in the city after all! We almost didn’t get to have one at all – it was […]

“I’d Cut Down Every Law…”

22 June 2016 Annual, Church and State, Divine Office, History, Meditations, Moments in Time, Prayer, Saints

Hans Holbein the Younger: Sir Thomas More

Today is the memorial of one of my favourite saints, Saint Thomas More, who died at the hands of King Henry VIII (that villain). That is, today is his memorial in the modern Roman calendar, which he shares with Saint John Fisher, also executed by the same king. In my Benedictine ordo, however, it is no such thing – you’d […]

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 […]

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