IMPORTANT: The 12:10 Mass is cancelled for Monday, September 4, 2017. There will be only one Mass at 9:00 a.m.
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Vespers this Sunday, Sept. 3 at 5 PM
Vespers, followed by Benediction, this Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 5:00 PM, and every first Sunday of the month. Please join us!
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MOMs+DADs Down Syndrome Prayer/Support Group
MOMs+DADs prayer/support group for those with Down Syndrome, their family and friends meets the third Thursday of every month, at 7:30 p.m. in the parish center. For more info, contact strapostolate@optimum.net.
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EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
We are happy to announce that Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will begin again on Wednesday, September 23 and will continue from then every Wednesday and Friday in St. Patrick’s chapel after the morning Mass. Many have missed this wonderful opportunity to adore the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and to pray in His presence.…
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The Bells of St. Mary’s
We are very fortunate to have a real bell in our steeple that actually functions, thanks to one of our parishioners, Gerhard Hutter. Probably the original function of the steeple bell was to announce the beginning of Mass or Vespers to the townspeople. St. Paulinus of Nola in the fourth century is credited with first…
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Music for Vespers of the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 3 September 2017
Sunday, 3 September 2017, 5:00 p.m.
Music for Second Vespers of the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Dixit Dominus & Psalm 109 (mode vii)
Magna opera Domini & Psalm 110 (mode iii)
Qui timet Dominum & Psalm 111 (mode iv)
Sit nomen Domini & Psalm 112 (mode vii)
Deum autem noster & Psalm 113 (mode i)
Hymn: Lucis Creator optime (plainsong, mode viii)
Magnificat antiphon: Unus autem ex illis (mode i)
Commemoration of St. Pius X: Dum esset Summus Pontifex (mode i)
O Salutaris Hostia (Werner)
Tantum ergo (French melody)
Adoremus in aeternum (mode i)
Postlude: Improvisation
Music for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost, 3 September 2017
Music for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:30)
Prelude: Sonata No. 3 in A Major: Andante tranquillo (Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847)
Hymn at the Procession: The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni)
Missa Doulce memoire (Orlande de Lassus, c.1532-1594)
Gregorian Mass of the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Respice Domine
Motet at the Offertory: In te speravi (Lassus)
Motet at the Communion: Ego sum panis vivus (William Byrd, 1540-1623)
Postlude: Sonata No. 3 in A Major: Con moto maestoso (Mendelssohn)
Music for the Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year
(Missale Romanum of 2002, 11:30)
Hymn at the Procession: O God, Beyond All Praising (Thaxted)
Introit: Miserere mihi Domine (plainsong, mode viii)
Missa Orbis factor (Vatican Gradual, Mass XI)
Alleluia: Cantate Domino (plainsong, mode i)
Offertory: Domine, in auxilium meum (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Offertory: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham)
Communion: Qui vult venire (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds (St. Peter)
Marian antiphon: Salve Regina (plainsong, mode v)
Organ music as above
Music for the Feast of St. Rose of Lima, 30 August 2017
Wednesday, 30 August 2017, 6:00 p.m.
Music for the Feast of St. Rose of Lima
(Missale Romanum of 1962)
Prelude: Improvisation
Missa Stelliferi Conditor orbis (Vatican Gradual, Mass XIII)
Gregorian Mass of a Virgin Not a Martyr: Dilexisti justitiam
Postlude: Improvisation
Movie Night Aug. 28 with St. Monica’s Sodality
To celebrate the Feast Day, St. Monica Sodality invites you to watch the movie “Restless Heart” on Monday, August 28, 2017 at 7:30pm in the School Building. When her son Augustine went astray in faith and manners, St. Monica's prayers and tears were incessant. She was once very urgent with a learned bishop that he would…
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Our Patronal Festival
I want to thank everyone who helped making the celebration of our patronal festival so beautiful and so joyous. Bishop Caggiano was genuinely pleased to be with us once again. The Mass was splendid with Mozart's Sparrow Mass as the setting. And who could have a dry eye after hearing the Laudate Dominum after Communion? Such perfect weather for our…
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