Vespers of the 2nd Sunday of Lent at St. Augustine's Chapel

Join the Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego in the magnificent afternoon quietude of St. Augustine's Monastery chapel for Vespers (Evening prayer) of the 2nd Sunday in Lent, including accompanied Gregorian Chant psalmody. Translational booklets and hymn sheets will be freely available. Vernacular hymns will include "Lead Kindly Light", and "Praise to the Holiest in the Height", both by the soon to be beatified John Henry Cardinal Newman. There is no charge but donations are always gratefully accepted.

Date: Sunday afternoon, 28 February 2010
Time: 3:00 - 4:15pm

Location: St. Augustine's Monastery Chapel
3266 Nutmeg St.
San Diego, Ca 92104

For further information call John Polhamus at 858 997 8636.

February 12: Mass for the Feast of the Seven Holy Founders

Friday, February 12, 7:00 P.M.

Mass in the Extraordinary Form

for the Feast of the Seven Holy Founders of

the Order of the Servites

Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Harry Neely, O.S.A.

St. Augustine Monastery Chapel

3266 Nutmeg St., San Diego, CA 92104

Donations will benefit St. Augustine Monastery

Upcoming Events for February and March

Domenichino, The Rebuke of Adam and Eve, 1626. National Gallery of Art.

The Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego are pleased to invite friends and benefactors to the following scheduled events:

Friday, February 12, 2010

7 PM

Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the feast of

the Seven Holy Founders of the Order of the Servites

St. Augustine's Monastery Chapel

Sunday, February 28, 2010

3 PM

Vespers in the Extraordinary Form of the 2nd Sunday of Lent

St. Augustine's Monastery Chapel

Friday, March 12, 2010

7 PM

Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the feast of St. Gregory the Great

St. Augustine's Monastery Chapel

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

7 PM

Tenebrae (Matins and Lauds) of Holy Thursday

St John the Evangelist's

Mark your calendar!

January 21: Mass for the Feast of St. Agnes of Rome

Thursday, January 21, 7:00 P.M.

Mass in the Extraordinary Form
for the Feast of St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr

Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Harry Neely, O.S.A.
St. Augustine Monastery Chapel
3266 Nutmeg St., San Diego, CA 92104

St. Agnes was a thirteen-year-old Roman girl who was martyred in 304 A.D. under the emperor Diocletian. The name Agnes is Greek but in Latin it resembles agnus (lamb), hence the saint is always depicted with a lamb, beside the palm branch, which is the symbol of martyrdom. On her feast day, the Pope blesses two lambs from whose wool the pallium (vestment conferred to metropolitan archbishops) is woven.

The Mass will be entirely sung in Gregorian Chant. Everybody is welcome to attend. Donation will benefit St. Augustine's Monastery.

November 13: Mass in Honor of St. Didacus of Alcalá

Friday, November 13, 7:30 P.M.
Mass in the Extraordinary Form
for the Feast of St. Didacus of Alcalá
Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Harry Neely, O.S.A.
St. Augustine Monastery Chapel
3266 Nutmeg St., San Diego, CA 92104

The Mass will be entirely sung in Gregorian Chant. St. Didacus (San Diego in Spanish) is the patron saint of America's Finest City. In November of 1602, Sebastián Vizcaíno was sent to map the California coast. Arriving on his flagship San Diego, Vizcaíno surveyed the harbor and what are now Mission Bay and Point Loma and named the area for St. Didacus.
Donations will benefit St. Augustine's Monastery.
Everybody is welcome to attend.

More Photos From All Hallows' Vespers

Frater John B. Polhamus reads inscriptions from Enrollment Cards sent from the Mother House in London.










Frater George Pecoraro, the liturgy's Thurifer, stands by for Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament to begin, while other Brethren around him vest in robes of the Confraternity of the Most Precious Blood, which Postulants and enrolled Brethren of the Little Oratory have the privilege to wear.









Fr. Victor Szczurek (O. Præm.), with Rituale, blesses the occasion's Holy Cards.

Small reliquary containing relics of our Holy Patron, St. Philip Neri, rests near the Spanish Colonial tabernacle of Mission San Juan.

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A bill advertising the vespers liturgy is posted on the outside gate of historic Mission San Juan Capistrano.

All Hallows' Vespers at San Juan Capistrano, and the Distribution of Enrollment Cards

The Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego at the invitation of and in conjunction with members of Una Voce Orange County, sang the 1st Vespers of the Feast of All Hallows before the glittering reredos of the Serra Chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano. A congregation of fifty persons, plus twelve in the sanctuary and five in the loft, brought the total in attendance to nearly seventy for the first traditional Roman vespers in at least the last forty years to be celebrated in the historic two hundred and forty year old chapel, the oldest original building remaining in all of the mission chain established by Blessed Junipero Serra.


The vespers were accompanied by a brother on the chapel's two manual pipe organ. In addition to the organ, violin descants, as well as flute and cello accompaniments were added to the processional and recessional hymns, as well as the hymns of Benediction, by the members of the Delina family, sisters Faith and Nicole, and their brother Gian. For this musical generosity the Brothers and doubtless all assembled return their sincere thanks. Fr. Victor Szczurek served as Hebdomadary and performed the Benediction, assisted in the sanctuary by MC Enzo Selvaggi.


In the sacristy following the services, enrollment cards for the Brothers' membership in the Archconfraternity of the Precious Blood were distributed, along with fresh and matching copies of the Brothers' cards of enrollment amongst the Brothers of the Little Oratory. This set was generously and exactingly prepared by Mr. James C.R. Cross of the London Brothers, and was prefaced by a formal message which was read prior to distribution. Accompanying the enrollment cards were copies of the St. Philip's Day 2009 cards distributed at London this past 26 May. Coming as it did following another successful annual observance of the vespers of one of the most glittering feasts of the church year, this touch of a London hand heightened the Brothers' sense of connection both to our living London family, and to the spiritual presence of our Saint, his sons, and our Brothers who have gone before us.