{"id":109018,"date":"2024-10-07T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=109018"},"modified":"2025-10-07T10:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T17:43:15","slug":"vespers-of-our-lady-of-the-holy-rosary-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/vespers-of-our-lady-of-the-holy-rosary-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Vespers of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

T<\/span>oday, October 7 is the Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary. For those of us who were once parishioners of Holy Rosary parish in Tacoma, it was our patronal feast. In years past, we could celebrate this on a Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought it would be nice to mark the feast in some way, in addition to praying a daily rosary. So I’ve attached an English version of the old monastic vespers for the day at the bottom of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Altar servers for our patronal feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary parish (Tacoma, WA) in 2019. We had not worn the red cassocks since shortly after the Benedictines left in 1998. <\/mark><\/em>
We brought them out especially for the feast.<\/mark><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Please download and print this evening prayer! Whether you sing it with your family or recite it quietly alone\u2014or some other variation\u2014I encourage you to pray for the former parishioners of our parish that they may find peace and healing in these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo taken in 2016 for the 125th anniversary of the Parish<\/span><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Download Vespers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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