Images from Vespers of First Sunday of Lent 2015

Sunday, February 22: Vespers of the First Sunday of Lent

Christ's temptation - mosaic in Monreale Cathedral

Sunday, February 22, 15:00 (3:00 PM)

 Vespers of the 1st Sunday of Lent
with Benediction

Hebdomadary: Rev. Fr. Eugene Sta.Ana

St. Vincent de Paul Church

4080 Hawk Street

San Diego, CA 92103 

Now is the time - St. Paul tells us - that is acceptable to God. It is the time, by God's grace, to reform our ways and to become His true servants. Against the temptation of the flesh, of the world, and of devil,  let our weapons  be prayer, fasting, and alms-giving. Come to St. Vincent de Paul for Vespers and hear these stern but necessary warnings sung in Gregorian chant.

Photos from Ash Wednesday

More Images from St. Valentine's Mass

Images and Sounds from St. Valentine's Mass

We are grateful to the San Diego Early Music Ensemble
( Elisabeth Marti, soprano;  Constance Lawthers, alto; 
John Peeling, tenor;Philip Larson, bass) 
for singing the Monteverdi's Mass for 4 voices.

February 18: Ash Wednesday

Wednesday, February 18, 19:00 (7:00 P.M.)

Sung Mass in the Extraordinary Form

for Ash Wednesday

Celebrant: Rev. Carl N. Gismondi, Jr., F.S.S.P.

St. Anne Catholic Church

621 Sicard St. San Diego, CA 92113-2396

This is the time of the year when we are called to reflect on our mortality and, in this perspective, to set aside transitory goods for those goods that cannot be taken away from us. As it has become customary, the Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego have been invited  to sing the Gregorian proper and ordinary for the Mass of Ash Wednesday. On Ash Wednesday, the faithful are signed with the blessed ashes and are thus reminded: Remember O man, that dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return. Come and witness this venerable ceremony.

Saturday, February 14: Sung Latin Mass for the Feast of St. Valentine

St. Valentine receives a rosary from the Mother of God.
David Teniers III (1638-1685)

Saturday, February  14, 11:30 (A.M.)

 Sung Traditional Latin Mass

for the Feast of St. Valentine

Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Burt J. Boudoin

St. Charles Parish
Imperial Beach
990 Saturn Blvd.
San Diego, CA 92154

Although he is one of the most popular saints in the calendar, almost nothing certain is known about St. Valentine, except that he was a priest and a martyr during the times of the III century Roman emperor Claudius II.  The fact that he became the patron saint of affianced couple is a curious development. But, as a martyr for Christ, he was a messenger of true Love, to which every human love must conform, lest it regresses to a brutish passion. On St. Valentine's day, come to the Traditional Latin Mass, sung by the Brothers in Gregorian chant and with a guest polyphonic choir.