April 18: Vespers of the Second Sunday After Easter

(The Good Shepherd, Catacomb of Priscilla, Rome, 2nd half of the III century)

Sunday, April 18, 15:00 (3:00 P.M.)

Vespers of the 2nd Sunday after Easter

with Gregorian chant psalmody.

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

St. Augustine Monastery Chapel

3266 Nutmeg St., San Diego, CA 92104

Join the Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego and Chorus Breviarii in the luminous quietness of St. Augustine's Monastery chapel for Vespers (Evening prayer) of the 2nd Sunday after Easter, including accompanied Gregorian Chant psalmody. Translational booklets and hymn sheets will be freely available. There is no charge but donations are always gratefully accepted.

Pictures from Tenebrae 2010

The Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego sang their 10th consecutive annual Tenebrae on Wednesday evening, 31 March, 2010. The congregation numbered between fifty and seventy-five persons, with an additional twenty-five making up the La Jolla Renaissance Singers who generously contributed polyphony. Additionally, there were fifteen persons making up the liturgical choir and servers, bring the total attendance to over one hundred. The service lasted two and one-half hours. Video will be forthcoming, but for now enjoy these striking images of Tenebrae 2010. Special thanks to Fr. William Dillard and the staff of St. John the Evangelist Church, Normal Heights. Special thanks also to Richard Truman Peterson, Mike Gruta and Christopher Gomez, who assisted in the sanctuary, and of course to Fr. Harry Neely, OSA, who served as Hebdomadary during the lengthy service. Gratias vobis, fratres et sorores.

Tenebrae: Matins and Lauds of Holy Thursday

On Wednesday, March 31, at 7:00 PM, at St. John's the Evangelist Catholic Church, the Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego and Chorus Breviarii San Diego sing the first offices of Tenebrae, or Matins (night office) and Lauds (morning prayer) of Holy Thursday, the start of the Holy Triduum. The La Jolla Renaissance Singers chamber choir will provide special polyphony, with music by T.L. de Victoria, Francisco Lopez-Capillas, Hernando Franco, and Jan Dismas Zelenka. Don't miss this rare annual event.

Wednesday, 31 March, 2010
7:00pm
Tenebrae of Holy Thursday
(Office of Matins and Lauds)
St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church,
(Park Ave. and Polk St., Normal Heights)

Brothers' sing "Laetare" Sunday Vespers

The Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego and members of Chorus Breviarii San Diego sang 2nd Vespers of "Laetare" Sunday on 14 March, 2010, at St. Augustine's Monastery Chapel in San Diego's North Park neighborhood. The vespers were chanted according to the breviary of 1962, and were accompanied from the organ by a Brother. A clip of the Vespers is now viewable at the following web address:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk99Wy1Y0Bc

Or you can watch it right here:

Vespers of the 4th Sunday of Lent at St. Augustine's Chapel

(Tintoretto,The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes 1578-81 )

Sunday, March 14, 14:30 (2:30 P.M.)

Vespers of the 4th Sunday of Lent

with Gregorian chant psalmody.

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

St. Augustine Monastery Chapel

3266 Nutmeg St., San Diego, CA 92104

Mass of the VI Feria after the III Sunday of Lent

(Christ and the Samaritan Woman. Paolo Veronese 1585)

Friday, March 12, 19:00 (7:00 P.M.)

Mass in the Extraordinary Form

for the VI Feria after the III Sunday of Lent

Collect at St. Mary Rutunda

Station at St. Lawrence at Lucina

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

During each day of Lent, the Pope would address the faithful at a certain church and then lead them in procession to the station church, where he would celebrate Mass (St. Lawrence in Lucina, for the Friday after the 3rd Sunday of Lent). The collect (literally, gathering) was at St. Mary in Rutunda (better known as the Pantheon), and the name "collect" is still used today to indicate the prayer said by the priest at the beginning of Mass.

If you cannot walk through the streets of Rome on Friday, come to St. Augustine's monastery and hear the Traditional Latin Mass sung in Gregorian chant, in the quiet atmosphere of the chapel. Translational booklets will be provided.

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.