Sunday, May 18: Vespers of the 4th Sunday after Easter

Jesus bids farewell to the disciples
Jerome Nadal, S.J.  (1507-1580)
Woodcut

Sunday, May 18, 15:00 (3:00 PM)

 Vespers of the 4th Sunday after Easter
with Benediction

Hebdomadary: Rev. Fr. Eugene Sta.Ana

St. Vincent de Paul Church

4080 Hawk Street

San Diego, CA 92103 

As the paschal season comes to an end, we hear how the resurrected Lord bids farewell to His disciples. These are understandably sad, hearing how the God-man will soon leave them to return to the Father, from Whom He was generated before all ages. But Our Savior assures them that their sadness will  soon turn into joy, when they receive the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. As the disciples had to renounce to the bodily visits of Our Lord, so  our relationship with God cannot be based on what simply gratifies our senses. Rather, reborn in Christ through baptism, we need to grow a heart that seeks only what is pleasing to God and where the Holy Spirit may come to dwell. Experience all this through Vespers in Gregorian chant.

Vespers of Low Sunday 2014

Sunday, April 27: Vespers of the First Sunday after Easter

The Incredulity of St Thomas, Rembrandt (1606, 1669)

Sunday, April 27, 15:00 (3:00 PM)

 Vespers of  the 1th Sunday after Easter
(Low Sunday)

Hebdomadary: Rev. Fr. Eugene Sta.Ana

St. Vincent de Paul Church

4080 Hawk Street

San Diego, CA 92103 

A blessed Easter to all our readers! Please join us at St. Vincent de Paul for Vespers of  Low Sunday. The resurrected Christ appears to the disciples and St. Thomas makes his confession of faith: the risen man before the apostle is also the true God, bestowing  great mercy upon mankind.  

Fourteenth Annual Tenebrae

 A fruitful Triduum to our readers!

Our Services for Holy Week

Man of Sorrow, Albrecht Dürer, 1511, woodcut

Monday, April 14, 19:00 (7 P.M.)

TENEBRÆ:  MUSICAL ORATORY OF THE PASSION

(includes recitation of the Rosary)

St. Vincent de Paul Church

4080 Hawk Street

San Diego, CA 92103 

Wednesday, April 16, 19:00 (7 P.M.)

TENEBRÆ: THE OFFICE OF MATINS AND LAUDS OF MAUNDY THURSDAY

Hebdomadary: Rev. Fr. Eugene Sta.Ana.

St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church

1638 Polk Avenue

San Diego, CA 92103-2622

Out of unfathomable love, the eternal Word of God was made flesh to share with us everything pertaining to our human condition, with the exception of sin. For sin makes us less then human. But He, Our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, did not shun the bitter consequences of sin: sorrow, pain, death. He rather embraced them all so that we, even in the deepest pit of despair and degradation, be never left alone,  may always have a chance to turn to Him, who walked the Way of Grief before us, and be saved. For by sharing in his sorrowful Passion, we also share in His glorious Resurrection. This Holy Week come and meditate on the Passion of Christ with us. 

Images and music from Laetare Sunday Vespers

Images and music from Vespers of the 4th Sunday of Lent (Lætare Sunday):

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Sunday, March 30: Vespers of Lætare Sunday.

 Feeding of the Multitude, mosaic,XII century,  
Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, Constantinople

Sunday, March 30, 15:00 (3:00 PM)

 Vespers of  the 4th Sunday of Lent
(Lætare Sunday)

Hebdomadary: Rev. Fr. Eugene Sta.Ana

St. Vincent de Paul Church

4080 Hawk Street

San Diego, CA 92103 

Please join us at St. Vincent de Paul for Vespers of Lætare Sunday. The name is taken from the first word of the Introit, Lætare, which means "rejoice". The Apostle Paul, by quoting the prophet Isaiah,  invites us to rejoice with Jerusalem, to signify the joy of our approaching paschal redemption through the sacrifice on the cross of Our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ. Hear and feel all this through Gregorian chant.