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Photos from Rogation Monday (May 6, 2013)
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
The Rogation Days (Minor Litanies) on the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before the Traditional Feast of the Ascension were well-attended this year! On Rogation Wednesday, we had to keep the Procession inside church due to the heavy rain! Thanks be to God.
Rogation Days (the Minor Litanies) are next week!
Saturday, May 4th, 2013Rogation Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are next week, and the Rogation Processions will take place around the church before Mass (with the Litany of the Saints).
Historical Note:
April 25th (the Feast of St. Mark), and the three days (Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) before the traditional celebration of Ascension Thursday, observed to appease God’s wrath, ask protection, and invoke a blessing on the harvest. They were known in England as Gang Days and Cross Week. The Litany of the Saints is chanted in the procession, and the Rogation Mass follows. The older procession of April 25th, called therefore the Major Litany, Christianized a pagan procession in honor of the god Robigus. The institution of the others, adopted in Rome under Pope Leo III as the Minor Litanies, is ascribed to Saint Mamertus of Vienne who, c. 475, ordered processions with special prayers because of calamities which were afflicting the country. Rogation days were dropped from the Church‘s calendar in the reform of 1970, but since 1988 have been revived, especially in farming communities.
New Schedule of Masses, Confessions and Devotions at Salem
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
St. Mary Catholic Church – Salem, S. Dakota
Weekly Schedule of Masses & Confession Times;
Schedule of Public Devotions
[Updated as of April 16, 2013]
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass:
Sunday - The Lord’s Day: 10:00 am and 12 Noon (Extraordinary Form/Trad. Latin Mass)
Saturday in anticipation of Sunday: 5:00 pm
Tuesday through Friday: 8:20 am
[Usually no public Masses on Mondays, unless otherwise noted in the Parish Bulletin]
Thursday: Additional Mass at 1:30pm at Golden Living Nursing Home in Salem
Saturday morning: 9:00 am (Extraordinary Form/Trad. Latin Low Mass), usually at the Holy Family Side Altar
Vigils of Holydays of Obligation: 7:00 pm
Holydays of Obligation: 8:15 am and 7:00 pm (Extraordinary Form/Trad. Latin Mass)
The Sacrament of Penance & Reconciliation (Confession):
Saturday afternoons: 3:45 – 4:45 pm
Anytime by appointment: Call 605-425-2600
Devotions:
First Sunday of the Month following the 12 Noon Mass: Devotions in Honor of the Holy Face of Jesus in Reparation for blasphemies and profanation of Sunday and Holydays of Obligation, with Exposition and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament;
25th of the Month, January through November, following 8:20am Holy Mass: Devotions in Honor of the Child Jesus (also known as “Little Christmas” Devotions);
Eucharistic Adoration: As announced for certain feasts and days of prayer, and during the Annual Forty Hours Devotion.
Father Lawrence’s email address is: rpmartinus@gmail.com.
In the event of an emergency, please call Fr. Lawrence on his cellular phone: 605-421-8557. Thank you.
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).
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
Church Lenten Photos
Friday, March 1st, 2013-
- Detail of the True Cross before Friday evening veneration
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- Relic of the True Cross before Friday Stations
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- Infant Jesus of Prague in Lenten Violet
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- Lenten Pulpit
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- Detail of High Altar before Latin Mass
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- High Altar for Lent
Christmas 2012 Photos II
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
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- Beautiful, new Gesu Bambino for Parish Praesepio (Crib) anonymously donated this year
