Sunday, May 2: Vespers of the 4th Sunday after Easter

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

Sunday, May 2, 15:00 (3:00 PM)

 Vespers of the 4th Sunday after Easter
with Benediction

Hebdomadary: Rev. Fr. Raymond Philip Napuli

ST. CHARLES CATHOLIC CHURCH 

990 SATURN BLVD., SAN DIEGO, CA 92154 

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 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.

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Photos of Tenebrae 2021

Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday

Tenebrae of Good Friday

Tenebrae of Holy Saturday

Tenebrae 2021

Man of Sorrow, Albrecht Dürer, 1511, woodcut

FOR MAUNDY THURSDAY 

WEDNESDAY, 31ST OF MARCH 2021, 2000 HR /8.00 PM 

ST. CHARLES CATHOLIC CHURCH 

990 SATURN BLVD., SAN DIEGO, CA 92154 

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FOR GOOD FRIDAY 

FRIDAY, 2ND OF APRIL 2021, 

0800 HR / 8.00 AM 

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC CHURCH 

1170 S. BROADWAY, ESCONDIDO, CA 92025 

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FOR HOLY SATURDAY 

SATURDAY, 3RD OF APRIL 2021, 0800 HR / 8.00 AM 

HOLY MARTYRS OF ENGLAND & WALES CATHOLIC CHURCH 

39022 SKY CANYON DR., MURRIETA, CA 92563

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"Tenebrae" is the sung offices of Matins and Lauds of each of the three days of the Sacred Triduum. Parts of the services will be performed in Gregorian chant, parts in our own tones. There is no charge for admission.

Images of 1st Vespers of St. Joseph

 

Thursday, March 18: First Vespers of St. Joseph

 

St Joseph with the Infant Jesus (c. 1635), Guido Reni (1575–1642)

Thursday, March 18, 18:00 (6 P.M.)

  Solemn First Vespers of  St. Joseph

with Benediction

Hebdomadary: Rev. Fr. Raymund Philip Napuli

First Assistant: Dcn. Samuel Keyes

Second Assistant: Mr. Ron Clemente

John Paul the Great Catholic University

200 W. Grand Ave, Escondido, CA 92025

Come to the outdoor chapel of JP Catholic and celebrate with us St. Joseph, who had the singular privilege of defending the Holy Family from the attacks of the enemy. A great feast like this has two Vespers services, the first on the evening of the preceding day, and the second on the evening of the day itself. We will sing  First Vespers of St. Joseph, the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and foster-father of Our Lord, God, and Savior Jesus Christ.

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Fr. Harry Neely O.S.A.: May 23, 1928 - December 16, 2020

 From Fratellino:

Of your charity, pray for the soul of Fr. Harry Neely, O.S.A., who has passed away in San Diego, at Nazareth House, in his ninety-first year. Fr. Neely taught Latin at St. Augustine High School, and was for a decade the chaplain of the Tridentine Latin Mass Society of San Diego, now St. Anne's FSSP parish. Fr Neely was also the first chaplain of Chorus Breviarii San Diego, and of the Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego. Fr. Neely was blessed to retain his full mental faculties to the end, and surrendered his soul peacefully, as he had lived. He will of course be missed, but the legacies of his ministrations will keep his memory green long into the future. May God grant him rest, light, and peace. Requiescat in pace.

Friends of Fr. Harry Neely OSA gathered today for his Requiem mass, including Daniel Grady, aetate 94 1/2, the last surving founder of the TLM San Diego congregation, of which Fr. Neely was chaplain for a decade. Holy Cross Chapel was founded in 1987, and was the first post Vatican II TLM congregation in the United States to be founded with the consent of the local ordinary. Many of these friends are veterans of Holy Cross Chapel, either having attended as adults, or having grown up attending mass there. Requiescat in pace Fr. Harry, and THANK YOU, both to you and to Daniel Grady. In fact, we can never thank you enough!

(I should point out that these were only the few of the Holy Cross Chapel alumni who could make this mass on a weekday amid... [see the rest of Fratellino's post on Facebook --Ed.]

Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord?

 

Father prepares for Mass before dawn

During the distribution of Holy Communion (after sunrise)

Group shot 1

Group shot 2

Courtesy: Frater David

Courtesy: hoklochen

Courtesy: Marco