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Midnight Mass at St. Mary Oratory 2019
Midnight Mass at St. Mary Oratory 2019
Midnight Mass at St. Mary Oratory 2019
The ancient traditional Gregorian Chant must, therefore, in a large measure be restored to the functions of public worship, and the fact must be accepted by all that an ecclesiastical function loses none of its solemnity when accompanied by this music alone.
As of Christmas Eve, 2019, the Institute of Christ the King has been invited by rector of the Basilica of Saints Celso & Giuliano to make this beautiful Roman baroque church our new home in the Eternal City.
July is traditionally the month we as Catholics honor the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, celebrating this feast day on the first of the month.
Experience the heavenly beauty of the Sacrament of Holy Orders in the Traditional Roman Rite.
On Saturday, December 14 at 6:00am, Canon Pierre Dumain, Vicar at St. Francis de Sales Oratory, celebrated a "Rorate Mass", which is the name for a votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin in Advent. It is a tradition for this Mass to be celebrated before sunrise, accompanied only by candle light.
On Friday, November 22, Canon Raphael Ueda, Rector of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Oratory in San José, celebrated a Solemn High Mass for the Feast of St. Cecilia and led a prayer for the canonization of Servant of God Father Magin Catalá, O.F.M., at Mission Santa Clara on the Santa Clara University campus. Canon Jean-Marie Moreau, returning for a visit, served as Deacon, and gave the homily. Original "California Mission Mass" music written down by the missionaries for the converted native Americans to sing was also sung by the choir during the Mass.
From Tokyo to Nagasaki, Osaka to Kyoto, travel to holy places sanctified by holy missionaries, like St. Francis Xavier and St. Maximillian Kolbe.
If you are one of the first twenty people to sign-up for this pilgrimage, $200.00 of your tour payment will be given to the rebuilding of the Shrine of Christ the King in Chicago in your name.
On December 1st, the First Sunday of Advent, Saint Patrick Parish and Oratory had welcomed His Grace, the Most Reverend Leonard Blair, Archbishop of Hartford, for the installation of the Reverend Canon Joel Estrada as Pastor.
His Excellency, the Most Reverend Glen John Provost announces that the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest will serve in the Diocese of Lake Charles beginning in January 2020.
It was an unusually cold, grey morning when the big crane pulled onto Historic Mitchell Street outside St. Stanislaus.