Parish schedule change:
No Mass on Tuesday, September 26.
No Mass or confessions on Wednesday, September 27.
Mass on Thursday, September 28 is moved to 5:30 pm after 4:30pm confessions.
(Adoration schedule remains the same)
Sep 25, 2023
Sep 23, 2023
Adult Faith Formation, September 19th -- Canterbury Tales, Session 2 -- The General Prologue
We discuss the various Canterbury "tellers" and the general plot of the Tales. We see the clever irony of Chaucer, as well as the first taste of his genius.
Listen online [here]!
Sunday Sermon, September 17 -- St Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.
Listen online [here]!
Sep 17, 2023
St Hildegard of Bingen
Today is the feast of St Hildegard of Bingen! I'll post my sermon tomorrow, but here is a movie on her life (German with English subtitles).
Here is a website with more information about St Hildegard's music.
http://www.hildegard-society.org/p/music.html?m=1
And here are links to a few of her hymns!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3HSoU1Ds6Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXRJY9P3Lhc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fRN7Czrs8Q
Sep 14, 2023
Adult Faith Formation, September 12th -- Canterbury Tales, Session 1 -- Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales
What is the goal of this course?
I hope that we will see why Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales are so important. More than that, our goal is to enjoy reading the Tales and further our enjoyment of all great literature. And, most of all, I want us to see the Catholic Vision presented in the Canterbury Tales.
Priestly Fraternity of St Joseph Conference - August 7th to 11th - St Francis de Sales, 400 years after his entrance to heaven
Conference talks discussed the life and ministry of St Francis de Sales, his theology, his writing style, Introduction to the Devout Life and Treatise on the Love of God, and his encouragement for spiritual friendships.
Adult Faith Formation, July 25th -- Session 4, Overview of the later Epistles
Outline of the later Pauline Epistles (Philippians, Philemon, Colossians, Ephesians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Hebrews)
Adult Faith Formation, July 18th -- Pauline Corpus, Session 3 -- Overview of the early Epistles
Outline of the
chronologically first Pauline Epistles (1 and 2 Thessalonians, Galatians, 1 and
2 Corinthians, Romans)
Adult Faith Formation, June 27th -- Pauline Corpus, Session 2 -- Was St Paul Catholic?
Was St
Paul a priest? Answer: Yes, most
certainly; because as an Apostle, he is a bishop and more than a bishop.
Romans
15:15-17. But on some points I have
written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by
God to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of
the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable,
sanctified by the Holy Spirit. In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud
of my work for God.
In this
passage, St Paul speaks of himself as a “minister of Christ Jesus” and states
that he is “in the priestly service of the gospel of God.” Further, he speaks
of the “offering of the Gentiles” using the Greek word that commonly referred
to a sacrificial priestly offering.
Adult Faith Formation, June 20th -- Pauline Corpus, Session 1, Introduction to St Paul
Scope and Goals of this Course
Sep 13, 2023
Bulletin Information on Mass Stipends and Mass Intentions
What are “Mass intentions?” Why
do Catholics offer $10 stipends for Mass intentions? How do I have a Mass
offered for a particular intention?
Sunday Sermon, September 3rd -- Jeremiah's Example of Bearing Chastisement
Listen online [here]!
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'Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend'
Justus quidem tu es, Domine, si disputem tecum; verumtamen
justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? &c.
justa loquar ad te: Quare via impiorum prosperatur? &c.
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend
With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just.
Why do sinners’ ways prosper? and why must
Disappointment all I endeavour end?
Wert thou my enemy, O thou my friend,
How wouldst thou worse, I wonder, than thou dost
Defeat, thwart me? Oh, the sots and thralls of lust
Do in spare hours more thrive than I that spend,
Sir, life upon thy cause. See, banks and brakes
Now, leavèd how thick! lacèd they are again
With fretty chervil, look, and fresh wind shakes
Them; birds build – but not I build; no, but strain,
Time’s eunuch, and not breed one work that wakes.
Mine, O thou lord of life, send my roots rain.
Source: Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Penguin Classics, 1985)
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