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Feast of St. Anthony & Pastor’s 10th Anniversary
Sunday, June 9th, 2013Photos from Corpus Christi Sunday Adoration
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013-
- St. Juliana of Liege
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- St. Juliana of Liege
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- St. Juliana of Liege
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- St. Juliana of Liege
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- Sanctissimum Exposed
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- Sanctissimum Exposed
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- Altar Prepared for Mass
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- Altar being prepared for Exposition and Mass
External Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Photos: Easter Night and Easter Octave
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013Come, and let us drink of that New River,
Not from barren Rock divinely poured,
But the Fount of Life that is for ever
From the Sepulchre of CHRIST the LORD.
All the world hath bright illumination,—
Heav’n and Earth and things beneath the earth:
’Tis the Festival of all Creation:
CHRIST hath ris’n, Who gave Creation birth:
Yesterday with Thee in burial lying,
Now today with Thee aris’n I rise;
Yesterday the partner of Thy dying,
With Thyself upraise me to the skies.
- St. John of Damascus (780)
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- Travis Muth was received into Full Communion and Confirmed at the Vigil; both he and his daughter Emma received their 1st Holy Communion
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- The Vessel of Easter Water blessed at the Paschal Vigil
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- The Shrine of the Child Jesus of Prague
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- The Risen and Victorious Lord of Life
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- The Pulpit
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- The Paschal Candle on Dominica in Albis
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- The Muth Family
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- The Altar of the Holy Family on Dominica in Albis
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- Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
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- Main Altar immediately prior to the Paschal Vigil
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- Holy Family Altar
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- Closer view of the Infant King in His Easter vestments
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- Another View of the Main Altar before Paschal Vigil
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- Altar of St. Aloysius/Shrine of the Holy Face of Jesus
Photos: Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion & Death 2013
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013O that shame, now ended in His glory!
O that pain, now lost in joy unknown!
Tell it out with praise the whole glad story,
Human nature at the Father’s throne!
-From a hymn by St. Joseph of the Studium (the Hymnographer), of the Eastern Church
A few photos from the 3:00 pm Solemn Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion and Death and from the 7:00 pm Stations of the Cross and Devotions in Honor of Our Lord in the Sepulchre and Our Mother of Sorrows:
Photos: Holy Thursday 2013
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013“After Peter was converted, he was called to strengthen his brethren. It is not irrelevant that this task was entrusted to him in the Upper Room. The ministry of unity has its visible place in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist. Dear friends, it is a great consolation for the Pope to know that at each Eucharistic celebration everyone prays for him, and that our prayer is joined to the Lord’s prayer for Peter. Only by the prayer of the Lord and of the Church can the Pope fulfill his task of strengthening his brethren – of feeding the flock of Christ and of becoming the guarantor of that unity which becomes a visible witness to the mission which Jesus received from the Father.”
- From the writings of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
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- Transferral of the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose
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- Transferral of the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose
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- Main Altar before the start of the Evening Mass
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- Altar of Repose
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- Altar of Repose 2
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- Detail, Altar of Repose
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- Floral Arrangement at Altar of Repose
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- Detail of Tabernacle Door at Altar of Repose
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- Agnus Dei Banner above Altar of Repose
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- Altar of Repose, another detail
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- Sweet Sacrament Divine..
Photos: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion 2013
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013These photographs were taken on Palm Sunday following the Noon Mass, which is celebrated in the Extraordinary Form. This explains why the antependium and tabernacle veil are violet and not red, as they were for the earlier Masses. The Relic of the True Cross was exposed after Mass and the Faithful were given an opportunity for veneration as they entered into Holy Week. The candle stand on the first step on the Epistle Side of the Altar is what we use as the Sanctus Candle (during Lent it is also unbleached, as are the Altar Candles).
Holy Week 2013 Schedule
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Church Photos from Laetare Sunday
Monday, March 11th, 2013-
- Banner of St. Joseph for the beginning of the Novena
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- Detail of Altar Flower
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- Detail of Chalice Veil
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- Detail of Floral Arrangement
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- Detail of High Altar
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- High Altar vested in Rose
Shrove Tuesday, Feb. 12th: Feast of the Holy Face – Solemn Adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
THE FEAST OF THE HOLY FACE ON SHROVE TUESDAY (aka “Mardi Gras”):
On April 17th, 1958, His Holiness, the Venerable Pope Pius XII approved the observance of the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus on Shrove Tuesday (Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. His Holiness granted this Feast to honor a request of Our Lord Himself to Blessed Pierina in 1938: “See how I suffer. Nevertheless, I am understood by so few. What gratitude on the part of those who say they love Me. I have given My Heart as a sensible object of My great love for man and I give My Face as a sensible object of My sorrow for the sins of man. I desire that it be honored by a special feast on Tuesday in Quinquagesima (Shrove Tuesday – the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, or Mardi Gras, or Carnivalé). The feast will be preceded by a novena in which the faithful make reparation with Me uniting themselves with My sorrow.”
DEVOTION TO THE HOLY FACE OF JESUS:
This ancient and venerable Catholic practice is rooted in the representation of the Face of Christ said to have been left on the towel or veil used by a holy woman thought to be named Veronica. Through the revelations made in the 1840’s to the Servant of God, Sister Marie of Saint-Pierre and the Holy Family (1816-1848), a Carmelite Nun of Tours, and the work of spreading the devotion by the Venerable Leo Dupont (1797 – 1876) , a layman of Tours, the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face was established in Tours, France in 1884. The members make reparation for the blasphemies hurled at Christ, especially those which blaspheme the Holy Name, and for the profanation of Sundays and Holydays of Obligation. Since St. Therese’s devotion to the Holy Face has become known, this devotion has spread worldwide.
In addition, a devout and pious nun, Blessed Mary Pierina de Micheli (1890-1945), was given many visions of the Lord Jesus and Our Blessed Lady. They urged her to make reparation for the many insults Jesus suffered in His Passion, such as to be slapped, spit upon and kissed by Judas, as well as now being dishonored, by ordained and lay persons alike, in the Blessed Sacrament through neglect, sacrilege, and profanation.