News from the Province
Three different Masses are celebrated on Christmas with three different sets of readings, in addition to the Mass for Christmas Eve Day, which is called the Vigil of Christmas (In Vigilia Nativitatis Domini). Each Christmas Mass gets its Latin name from the first words of its Introit. ...
Our Prior General, Monsignor Gilles Wach, and our Provincial Superior, Canon Matthew Talarico, ask us to pray publicly the Memorare each day...
The Mass and music of Mission Days returned to Mission Santa Clara on the evening before Thanksgiving, November 21, 2018, when Canon Ueda, chaplain of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Oratory in San José, celebrated a sung High Mass at the Mission Santa Clara's otherwise mostly-unused main altar for the first time in anyone’s memory. The music sung that night was the same music taught by the friars to the converted native Americans at the California Missions.
The annual pilgrimage to Ordinations of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest in Florence, Italy, will take place from June 30 to July8, 2019.
