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The World is Quiet Here

Hymn for Lauds, Easter Season:
Aurora Lucis Rutilat

10 May 2019 Divine Office, Seasons

Light’s glittering morn bedecks the sky;Heaven thunders forth its victor cry;The glad earth shouts its triumph high,And groaning hell makes wild reply: While He, the King of glorious might,Treads down death’s strength in death’s despite,And, trampling hell by victor’s right,Brings forth His sleeping Saints to light. Fast barred beneath the stone of lateIn watch and ward where soldiers wait,Now shining […]

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Feast of the Holy Abbots of Cluny

29 April 2019 Annual, Divine Office, History, Prayer, Saints

Today is the feast of four great Abbots of the Benedictine Order: Saints Odo, Majolus, Odilo, and Hugh. They were all good and holy men, and during the course of their reigns over the Abbey of Cluny and its associated priories, they reformed western monasticism – indeed, it could be fairly said that together they saved western monasticism. My Monastic […]

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The Stripping of the Altars

27 April 2019 Holy Days, resources, The Sacred Liturgy

A Reflection and a Resource Last week I attended the rites of the Triduum at three different churches. This is not really normal; one should attend what is essentially one long, if interrupted, liturgy at one’s own parish church. In our case, this is complicated by the fact that two parishes share a pastoral team. So Good Friday was at […]

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Vespers for the Dead

24 April 2019 Chant, community, Divine Office, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Maestra Victoria Solenberger, Moments in Time, Rev. Michael Wagner, Rev. Nicholas Wichert, The Sacred Liturgy

One year ago, our parishes of Holy Rosary and Visitation were deep in prayer for the health and soul of our pastor, Rev. Michael Wagner. Rev. Michael Wagner On April 10 2018, Father Wagner collapsed during the celebration of the holy Mass. He was admitted to hospital with an irreversible brain hemorrhage. The doctors advised his family and the archdiocese […]

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Holy Week Marathon

22 April 2019 community, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Rev. Martin Bourke, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

I joke sometimes that Holy Week for an MC is like running a marathon. So this year, I used my FitBit tracking and figured out the distance I walked, starting with our Palm Sunday rehearsals and ending on Easter Sunday. This year, I clocked about 70km – that’s 43 miles. Given that a marathon is 26 miles, I actually walked […]

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Exult! Exult!

20 April 2019 Annual, Chant, Holy Days, Prayer, The Sacred Liturgy

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Maundy Thursday:
Do This in Memory of Me

18 April 2019 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. Unlike most Protestants, the Catholic and Orthodox (and others of the Apostolic Tradition) believe that God is really there, wholly present in the consecrated bread and […]

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Tenebræ

14 April 2019 Annual, Chant, Deacon James Fish, Divine Office, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Seasons, The Sacred Liturgy

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Schedule for Holy Week

09 April 2019 Annual, Chant, community, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Days, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Moments in Time, Prayer, Rev. Martin Bourke, The Sacred Liturgy

The following is the Holy Week schedule for the parishes of Holy Rosary and Visitation in Tacoma, Washington. It’s less jam-packed than previous years, but there’s still a lot here! Wednesday Tenebræ is not to be missed. And of course, the Holy Triduum is essentially one giant liturgy (with some serious overnight breaks) that begins with the Introit of the […]

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Missale Romanum at Fifty… plus one

04 April 2019 The Sacred Liturgy

A good friend pointed out to me that my post yesterday on the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae was a little darker than perhaps I intended. This is a fair comment. I may have been in a slightly grumpy mood yesterday. Even five years ago, the idea of a “new liturgical movement” to restore the […]

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Missale Romanum at Fifty

03 April 2019 History, Latin, The Sacred Liturgy

NOTE: Particularly if this article leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, you’ll want to read the follow-up. It is a sort of apologia. Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae by Pope Saint Paul VI in his Apostolic Constitution Missale Romanum. There is, so far as I can tell, no mention of this […]

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Jubilate Deo!

02 April 2019 Chant, Latin, Prayer, resources, The Sacred Liturgy

In April of 1974, Pope Saint Paul VI issued a small book called Jubilate Deo containing various Latin chants. Copies were sent as “a personal gift” to all the Bishops of the world. In the accompanying letter from the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, we read, In presenting the Holy Father’s gift to you, may I at the same time […]

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Introíbo ad Altáre Dei – the Prayer and the Posters

28 March 2019 inside baseball, Latin, resources, The Sacred Liturgy

At our parish of Holy Rosary, the clergy and servers pray Psalm 43 (42) before Mass in the narthex. Well, since we were forced to move to the auditorium this past November, we pray it in the hallway outside. This psalm begins with the antiphon, “I will go to the altar of God”, or in Latin, “Introíbo ad altáre Dei”. […]

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Lenten Vespers

07 March 2019 Chant, Deacon James Fish, Deacon Mike Teskey, Divine Office, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Rev. Martin Bourke, Seasons

At my parish of Holy Rosary in Tacoma, we are celebrating Sunday Vespers as we do each Lent. Please, join us in the coming weeks if you are local and able. Chanted Vespers is a beautiful and traditional way of worship in our faith.

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Sedimus et Flevimus

30 January 2019 Divine Office, Latin, Meditations, Polyphony

Feeling rather melancholy this evening, and one of the psalms from Vespers particularly struck home. Super flumina Babylonis ibi sedimus et flevimus : * cum recordaremur Sion : In salicibus in medio ejus * suspendimus organa nostra. Quia illic interrogaverunt nos, qui captivos duxerunt nos, * verba cantionum : Et qui abduxerunt nos : * Hymnum cantate nobis de canticis […]

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The Phantom of the Octave

19 January 2019 Divine Office, Holy Days, inside baseball, The Sacred Liturgy

The Church used to celebrate many Octaves. Many great solemnities, and even some older feasts of lesser liturgical stature, had an Octave. Some holy days are so holy that a single day can’t contain them. Take Easter, for instance. The ancient tradition of the Church is to add an entire week to the Sunday that is Easter, making it actually […]

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A Plea for Beauty in the Sacred Liturgy

13 January 2019 Archbishop J. Peter Sartain, Cardinal Sarah, Divine Office, Exhortations, Holy Rosary Parish Tacoma, Meditations, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Saint John Paul II, Rants, Rev. Gabriel Mosher OP, Rev. Kyle Mangloña, The Sacred Liturgy

Superman fights for “truth, justice, and the American way!” We should fight for the three transcendentals: truth, beauty, and goodness. The transcendentals were known to the Ancient Greeks, but Catholic theologians quickly baptized them into their study of philosophy and theology. Transcendentals are the timeless and universal attributes of being. They are the properties of all beings, as well as […]

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