Easter & Whitsun at JPCatholic

Students from John Paul the Great Catholic University in Escondido, CA celebrated the Feast of Pentecost with sung lay Vespers and Compline, the recitation of the Holy Rosary, and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Two students who sing with Chorus Breviarii run the school's Divine Office Ministry, a group who's activities include nightly Compline and the occasional Vespers service. Last year, the Divine Office Ministry invited the Brothers and Chorus Breviarii to celebrate Vespers of the 5th Sunday after Easter. 

Easter Vespers at JPCatholic (May 22, 2022)

The JPCatholic Divine Office Ministry has provided a solid group for young Catholic students to celebrate the Church's Canonical Hours in a well-structured manner, opting for the older Divine Office arrangement and its chants over the modern Liturgy of the Hours. At the end of their most recent Fall quarter, the group celebrated the end of exams with dinner, dessert, and Sunday Compline in Advent. One Chorus Breviarii member in attendance also instructed the group in how to chant the Angelus. 

Fr. Sarfraz Alam, O.S.A., the current chaplain to JPCatholic, attended Compline with us and completed the Sunday Exposition period with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Hopefully we may be able to celebrate full liturgical Vespers with these students again soon! We pray that the Holy Ghost will enlighten these students' minds as they prepare for their final exams and papers this week.

Courtesy: visionaryarts100

Philipmas and the Holy Ghost

This year, Philipmas' occurence on the Friday before Pentecost creates a sort of Triduum of the Holy Ghost composed of Philipmas, Whitsun Eve, and Whit Sunday. The next time this Triduum will occur will be in 2034. 

While St. Philip was in prayer asking for the gifts of the Holy Ghost, there appeared a globe of fire which entered his mouth and lodged itself in his chest, enlarging his heart and breaking his ribs. With the physical enlargement of his heart and its miraculous palpitation and warmth also came St. Philip's charity and joyful spirit excited by those gifts of the Holy Ghost that he had received. We ask today that St. Philip will pray for us to God that our hearts may be prepared to receive the Holy Ghost on Pentecost and be inflamed with love and joy like his.