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Holy Week Schedule 2024

~ PALM SUNDAY ~ (March 24): 8:00 AM: English Sung Mass; 10:00 AM: Solemn Traditional Latin Mass; (Procession of the Palms; St. Matthew’s Passion); 12:00 PM: Spanish Sung Mass (offered in the school gym). ~ HOLY MONDAY ~ (March 25): 3:00-9:00 PM: 'Reconciliation Monday'; Confessions will be heard at the following parishes: St. ALOYSIUS - St. MATTHEW - St. THOMAS MORE and also 6:00-8:00 pm: Confessions at St. Mary with Fr. F.J. Ringley. ~ HOLY TUESDAY ~ (March 26): 8:00 AM: Traditional Latin Mass. 11:30 AM: Confessions at St. Mary. 12:10 PM: English Mass. 6:00-7:00 pm: Confessions at St. Mary. ~ SPY WEDNESDAY ~ (March 27): 8:00 AM: Traditional Latin Mass. 11:30 AM: Confessions at St. Mary. 12:10 PM: English Mass. 7:00 PM: TENEBRÆ of Maundy Thursday. ~ MAUNDY THURSDAY ~ (March 28): 7:00 PM: SOLEMN MASS in Cena Domini. 9:00 PM: Vespers and Stripping of the Altars. 9:30 Pm: Vigil before the Blessed Sacrament (at the Altar of Repose in the lower chapel) ~ GOOD FRIDAY ~ (March 29): 11:00 AM: Stations of the Cross (Latin, English, and Spanish). 3:00 PM: The MASS of the PRESANCTIFIED (St. John’s Passion by Victoria; Worship of the Cross). 7:00 PM: Procession of the CRISTO MUERTO and Burial of the BODY of CHRIST. ~ HOLY SATURDAY ~ (March 30): 12:30 PM: Blessing of Easter Food (gym). 7:00 PM: The GREAT VIGIL of EASTER. 11:30 PM: Festive Reception. ~ EASTER SUNDAY ~ (March 31): 8:00 AM: English Sung Mass. 10:00 AM: Solemn Traditional Latin Mass. 12:00 PM: Spanish Sung Mass.
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3/3/2024 Haciendo Penitencia en la Cuaresma

3/3/2024 – Doing Penance during Lent

Music for March 2024

All sung Masses at St. Mary's include the full Gregorian chant Propers, as well as the Ordinary of the Mass sung in Latin to plainchant or polyphony.
Sunday, March 3, 2024: Lent III

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum and St. Mary's Youth Schola
Missa Emendemus (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
Ad te levavi oculos meos (Palestrina)
Domine Deus omnipotens (Nicolas Gombert)
Attende Domine (chant)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, March 10, 2024: Lent IV (Laetare Sunday)

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa L'homme armé (Francisco Guerrero)
Accepit Jesus panes (Guerrero)
Ave regina caelorum (Gregor Aichinger)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Sunday, March 17, 2024: Lent V (Passion Sunday)

8:00 a.m.  Mass in English with cantor
10:00 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Missa Tertii toni (Giammatteo Asola)
O Domine Jesu Christe (Tiburtio Massaino)
Vexilla Regis prodeunt (Guillaume Dufay)
Adoramus te, Christe (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina)
12:00 p.m.  Mass in Spanish with cantor

Tuesday, March 19, 2024: St. Joseph's Day

Daily Masses at 8:00 a.m. and 12:10 p.m.
9:15 a.m.  Solemn Mass with St. Mary's Schola Cantorum
Sponsored by the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny for Regina Pacis Academy
Messe dite du sixième ton de Henri Dumont
(Alexandre Guilmant)
Beatus vir (Tomás Luis de Victoria)
Joseph fili David (Francesco Feroci)

MUSIC FOR HOLY WEEK 2024
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2/25/2024 – The Transfiguration

2/25/2024 La Transfiguración

THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST #88 / DIARIO DE UN SACERDOTE URBANO #88

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THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST #87 / DIARIO DE UN SACERDOTE URBANO #87

THE DIARY OF AN INNER-CITY PRIEST Diary Entry #87     The Kleptomaniac   Kleptomania is the inability to resist the urge to steal items, usually for reasons other than personal use or financial gain. First described in 1816, kleptomania is classified in psychiatry as an impulse control disorder. Some of the main characteristics of the…
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2/18/2024 – La Tentación del Señor en el desierto