First Missa Solemnis in Tampa!

It's Here!!! 


First Missa Solemnis to take place in Tampa on the Feast of Pentecost

Please join us and bring a friend!

from a recent Missa Cantata at Incarnation

 

Daily Prayer For Priests by St. Therese of the Child Jesus

O Jesus, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests;
for your unfaithful and tepid priests;
for your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields;
for your tempted priests;for your lonely and desolate priests;
For your young priests;
for your dying priests;
for the souls of your priests in Purgatory.

But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me:
the priest who baptized me;
the priests who absolved me from my sins;
the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion;
the priests who taught and instructed me;
all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way (especially …).
O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart,
and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity.    Amen.

Happy birthday, Papa Bene! (emeritus)

I'd love to deliver this to Castelgandolpho!
Ad multos annos!

A new chant blog for Tampa

I've started another blog page which will be dedicated to promoting sacred music, chant, and polyphony in the Tampa, FL, area.  It's just the bare bones right now, but hopefully it will be more active soon:

Sensus Ecclesiae

Thank you, Holy Father!

Thank you, Holy Father!  I will miss you!  I love you!




Source:  Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist

Latin Mass Promo Video!

This was filmed at our Latin EF Mass here in Tampa, now offered every Sunday afternoon at 4:30PM at Incarnation parish.  Deo gratias!  Please feel free to join us and bring a friend!

Winter Chant Intensive- Day 5

The fifth and final day at last arrived.  The 2013 Winter Chant Intensive was quickly drawing to a close.  After a short (one hour!) practice, it was time for the chanted OF Mass!  Amongst the congregation there were students from three local parochial schools in attendance. 

Here is a clip from the video done by the local media:  Gregorian Chant Mass at St. Joseph Church, Macon, GA  You can't see it on the video, but Communion was offered by intinction!  (Sadly, this is currently not allowed in my home diocese.)

Some still shots:

Altar set up for Mass ad orientem



Last minute conferring before Mass begins

Men's schola
(I said 'look holy!' and this is what I got...)

Alleluia!

Gospel and homily

preparing the incense



incensing the altar

Offertory antiphon

Rose window


 Next year, the Winter Intensive will be held somewhere in Florida, so mark your calendars all you chant enthusiasts!

Here are a couple of pictures of me, my Plurk buddy Suzanne, her friend Kathryn, and  our fantabulous schola director Arlene at our last meal together before returning to our respective parts of the country:

Plurkettes:  Jjoy and MakeMeASpark

Women's Schola director Arlene Oost-Zinner
and
Kathryn of Michigan