Friday, October 10, 2025

SUNDAY XXVIII and ANNUNTIO VOBIS GAUDIUM MAGNUM!

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The repairs needed to fix the organ have been approved by the diocese and Father Stowe gave me the green light to contact Rodgers Organs of ...
Friday, October 3, 2025

SUNDAY XXVII

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  MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS ORDINARY OF THE MASS: Gloria:  Holy Angels Mass  (BMP) (or recited, celebrant's discretion) Sanctus and Agnus Dei:...
Thursday, September 25, 2025

SUNDAY XXVI and LAST WEEK'S 10:00 MISADVENTURES

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For the next few weeks I will be putting my personal electric keyboard on loan to Sacred Heart Church. Those who came to the 10:00 Mass last...
Friday, September 19, 2025

SUNDAY XXV

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And today we're back to "normalcy" (quoting Warren Harding), but only "for a time" (quoting Father Bucci) as we retu...
Thursday, September 11, 2025

EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS

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It's been a long time since September 14 fell on a Sunday - 11 years, for that matter.  The reason I say that:  September 14 is the Exal...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

SUNDAY XXIII, "PEOPLE'S MASS" RETURNS and THE CROSS IN SONG

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At long last, the return of People's Mass  by Jan Vermulst!  Now that I think of it, in my short stint at Sacred Heart way back when (Ja...
Friday, August 29, 2025

SUNDAY XXII, "COMING NEXT WEEK" and "ORDINARY VS. PROPER"

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Next week: People's Mass , as I mentioned in last week's post .  Last Monday, I had some time and recorded an instructional video fr...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

SUNDAY XXI

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COMING SOON:  On the weekend of September 7 (Sunday XXIII), we will "revive" a Mass setting that was used mainly in the 1970s and ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

THE THREE DAY WEEKEND

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Let's start with this Friday - August 15 - The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - a Holyday of Obligation.  We have Mass at 10 AM i...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

SUNDAY XIX

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The Bridegroom is arising, and soon he will draw nigh. Up, watch in expectation, at midnight comes the cry. See that your lamps are burning,...
Thursday, July 31, 2025

AN ACTION PACKED SUNDAY XVIII

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This Saturday, as you probably all know, is our Italian Heritage Mass (5 PM) followed by the dinner/dance at the Quonset O Club.  Msgr. Carl...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

SUNDAY XVII

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MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS ORDINARY OF THE MASS: Holy Angels Mass  (BMP) ( Listen ) or recited (Gloria) A Community Mass (Richard Proulx) (Sanctus,...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

SUNDAY XVI - THE BETTER PART

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"Mary has chosen the better part and it shall not be taken from her."   These words were spoken by Jesus to Martha, who was busy w...
Thursday, July 10, 2025

SUNDAY XV

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MUSIC FOR HOLY MASS ORDINARY OF THE MASS: Holy Angels Mass  (BMP) ( Listen ) or recited (Gloria) A Community Mass (Richard Proulx) (Sanctus,...
Friday, July 4, 2025

SUNDAY XIV, and "RETURN TO NORMALCY"

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While we've been in the season known to many as "Ordinary Time" (or to some, perhaps, "Boring Time"), we're fina...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

SUNDAY XIII, er, I mean, SAINTS PETER AND PAUL

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This Sunday we celebrate the sixth and final in a string of June solemnities that started with Pentecost, followed by Trinity, Corpus Christ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST (Corpus et Sanguis Christi)

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I think I might have mentioned this bit of trivia that might be useless to some while others might remember, and had I not been experienced ...
Friday, June 13, 2025

THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY

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The second of a series of six June solemnities, four of which fall on a Sunday this year, as well as one that is our parish patronal feast (...
Friday, June 6, 2025

THE SOLEMNITY OF PENTECOST

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This weekend we finish off the Easter Season with the Solemnity of Pentecost, the first in a series of solemnities taking place in the month...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

ASCENSION THURSDAY and VII EASTER

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I am pleased to be in a diocese that still celebrates the Ascension of the Lord on Thursday, and YES, it is still a holyday of obligation he...