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Eternal Rest and Everlasting Light

26 April 2021 Annual, Family, Prayer

Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine:et lux perpetua luceat eis.In memoria æterna erit iustus,ab auditione mala non timebit. Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord:and let perpetual light shine upon her.She shall be justified in everlasting memory,and shall not fear evil reports. Absolve, Domine,animas omnium fidelium defunctorumab omni vinculo delictorumet gratia tua illis succurentemereantur evadere iudicium ultionis,et lucis æternae beatitudine perfrui. […]

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Saint George!

23 April 2021 Annual, Fun, G.K. Chesterton, Prayer, Saints

“Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” (G.K. Chesterton) Saint George of Lydda (Eastern Version) Today’s feast is of the martyr Saint George. Pious legends of dragon slaying notwithstanding, George was a soldier of the Roman army who was killed during the persecutions […]

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Christus Resurréxit! Resurréxit Vere!

03 April 2021 Annual, Holy Days

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Exult! Exult!

03 April 2021 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Prayer, The Sacred Liturgy

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The Whole Earth Keeps Silence

03 April 2021 Annual, Divine Office, Holy Days, Silence

From an ancient homily on Holy Saturday, found in today’s Office of Readings: Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who […]

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Good Friday: God is Dead

02 April 2021 Annual, Holy Days

Today is Good Friday: the commemoration of the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ at Calvary. Ecce lignum Crucis, in quo salus mundi pepéndit. Veníte adorémus.Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the salvation of the world. Come let us adore.(Missale Romanum: Friday of the Passion of the Lord) Ecce homo: Behold, the man He was condemned by […]

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Maundy Thursday: Do This in Memory of Me

01 April 2021 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 […]

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Hosanna to the Son of David!

28 March 2021 Annual, community, Deacon Gary Rose, Francine my love, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Jerry Sherbourne, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, Rev. Vinner Raj HGN, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

This weekend, Holy Week begins with the Sunday of Lord’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem – 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 celebrated by […]

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Friday of Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin

26 March 2021 Annual, Holy Days, Mary

The Madonna in Sorrow by Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato, 17th century Today, a week before Good Friday, the Church has traditionally remembered the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin. While the commemoration was removed from the calendar in 1970, it survives in the Extraordinary Form, as well as in many local calendars including that most Catholic country of Malta […]

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Yes.

25 March 2021 Annual, Holy Days, Mary, Meditations

Fra Angelico - The Annunciation

The mercy of God is a scandal – Christ offers His infinite mercy to every worst kind of sinner, excluding no one. This eternal upwelling of mercy overflows, cascading upon the whole of the human race. It extends to murderers. It extends to rapists. It extends to thieves, and liars, and stalkers, and vandals. It extends to tax collectors and […]

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The Transitus Transferred

22 March 2021 Annual, Moments in Time, Prayer, Saints, Vocation

Yesterday was the Feast of the Transitus of Saint Benedict, the anniversary of his death, in the year of our Lord 547. Of course, yesterday was a Sunday (the fifth of Lent, or Passion Sunday), and so the saint’s feast isn’t celebrated this year. Unless, of course, you are a Benedictine, in which case the feast is bumped, or transferred, […]

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Ite Ad Joseph!

19 March 2021 Annual, Family, Moments in Time, Pope Benedict XVI, Prayer, Saints, Silence

Today on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph in the Year of Saint Joseph, we would do well to meditate on the life of the man who helped raise the Son of God. It can’t have been easy. Tradition holds that Joseph was already an old man and a widower when he married the Blessed Virgin, who was very young, perhaps […]

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The Chair of Peter

22 February 2021 Annual, History, Holy Days, Saints

Today is the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter. Now, you might be thinking, “a feast for a piece of furniture?” Read on! Most folks have seen some variation of this photo of Bernini‘s “Chair of Peter” in the Vatican. It’s a masterpiece of baroque art, found in every art textbook covering the period. The chair in question is […]

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Ash Wednesday

17 February 2021 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 […]

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Called to Love More

10 February 2021 Annual, Church and State, Saints

Saint Benedict was the founder of western monasticism; to this day, most monks and nuns worldwide follow some variation of his “Little Rule for Beginners“. Benedict had a twin sister, Scholastica, whose feast day is today. Under her brother’s guidance, she founded the first female monastery in the west. I often think that their parents had a sense of humour, […]

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Candlemas

02 February 2021 Annual, Francine my love, Fun, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, 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 […]

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Septuagesima Sunday

31 January 2021 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 […]

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