by John Rose | Sep 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
This Christmas we will sing, as is always fitting, “Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming”, but today (September 8) we commemorate a related birth, also sprouting from Jesse’s lineage: Our Blessed Virgin Mary is the dear branch from which that blessed...
by John Rose | Aug 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
This Sunday 8/15 is the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This feast celebrates the end of Mary’s earthly life and the beginning of her residence in Heaven. As befits the Mother of God (the Theotokos), her transition to Heaven and position...
by John Rose | Jul 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
(A notice from the Department of Who Knew?) The Benedict XVI Institute, the brainchild of Archbishop Cordileone of San Francisco, quietly published in 2014 the Hymnal for the Hours edited by Fr. Samuel Weber OSB, a collection of very nearly all of the Latin hymns of...
by John Rose | Jul 9, 2021 | Uncategorized
For vespers on this Friday, July 9, our hymn Horis Peractis Undecim is a meditation on the parable of the vineyard workers, as found in Matthew 20. (You can watch Lauds and Vespers for July 9 on YouTube. Please forgive and skip the ads.) Many of us recall the story:...
by John Rose | Jun 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Tuesday, June 29, is the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul. As such, it is the onomastico (name-day) of Paul Rose, and every other Paul out there, as well as all the Peters. Buon onomastico! (You can watch Lauds and Vespers for June 29 on YouTube. Please forgive and...
by John Rose | May 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
Happy Visitation Day! Monday’s hymn, Veniens Mater Inclita (“approaching mother acclaimed”), is a lovely meditation in which we put ourselves into the scene of the Blessed Mother to her cousin St. Elizabeth. In the hymn, all the nations of the church...
