Bishop Thomas Olmsted celebrates Mass from the Cathedral of SS. Simon and Jude:
Palm Sunday at Gricigliano
From the seminary of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest:
Dominica in Palmis from Institutum Christi Regis S. S. on Vimeo.
Liturgy on the internet
[Reposting with an update.]
Here are links to sources for viewing the Mass on-line, live or recorded:
Television networks:
- CatholicTV
- EWTN
- Salt+Light
- KTO (France)
- ZDF (Germany)
- TV2000 (Italy)
- Vatican Radio and Television
Religious communities:
- The Fraternity of St Peter offers the traditional Latin Mass from various locations at http://www.livemass.net/
- Masses from oratories of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest can be viewed at their site.
More lists:
- Eastern Catholic and Orthodox liturgies are listed at http://liveliturgy.com/
- A directory of US-based church video streams is at https://withyourspirit.org/
- a list of diocesan and church links appears in a story posted
by Catholic News Service.
First Vespers of Palm Sunday
With the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem, Charles Town, West Virginia.
Skip to the 8-minute mark within the video for the beginning of the Office:
Feast of the Seven Dolors of the Blessed Virgin Mary
In the 1962 calendar the Friday before Palm Sunday is a feast in honor of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady, so a sung Mass was celebrated in the evening at Saint Adelaide Church, Peabody, Massachusetts.
Celebrant: Fr. Raymond van de Moortell, co-pastor
The readings were presented by Fr. David Lewis, co-pastor
Schola: music director Michael Olbash, Richard Chonak, and Brendan Kenney
In accord with the directives of ecclesiastical and civil authorities, fewer than ten people were present.
Sacred Music in a Parish Church
At the risk of telling this story too many times, I once was talking to a maintenance man outside the church one Colloquium, and he was astounded by the music. Why couldn’t his parish have beautiful music, he wondered? He was amazed and at the same time disappointed, because his weekly experience of Mass had nothing aesthetically or reverently in common with the CMAA model of liturgy.
Here, on the other hand, is a parish that “gets it.” The amount of vision, ingenuity, and plain hard work that go into a liturgical experience like this are enormous. But does God deserve any less? Do the people of God–blue collar, white collar, children, the elderly–do their souls and imaginations thrive on the pablum so often offered at Sunday Mass?
In a time of shifting realities, perhaps one aspect of tomorrow’s “new normal” could be taking seriously the power of sacred music and a true ars celebrandi to prepare the people of God for whatever comes next, by elevating them, in every parish church.
Dialogues des Carmelites
A fine, 3 hour production of Poulenc’s opera is streaming for one day only, through 6:30 EDT, March 31, 2020.
The Met is streaming one opera daily for the time being. Details may be found here.