Video of the November Pontifical Requiem

The first, preliminary video of the November Pontifical Requiem the Brothers of the Little Oratory and Chorus Breviarii served for is out on YouTube

8th Annual Tenebrae a Great Success

The 8th Annual Tenebrae was a great success, with somewhere between 50 and 100 in attendance. The ad hoc Tomas Luis de Victoria Choir sang that composer's first Lamentation of Jeremias, then the second and third in settings by Tudor era composer Robert White (d.1574). In addition they offered the antiphon "Christus factus est" by Mexican baroque composer Francisco Lopez Capillas, and the "Miserere" of Hernando Franco, both chapelmasters at the Cathedral in Mexico City. The "fragor et strepitus" or beating of the choirbooks (and anything else to hand) in the darkened church, and in simulation of the earthquake which marked the moment of our Lord's death on the Cross, provided an always alien and unexpected dramatic note to conclude the proceedings.

Read it all at The Brothers of the Little Oratory blog.

8th Annual Gregorian Tenebrae

~ The Brothers of the Little Oratory ~

~ & CHORUS BREVIARII SAN DIEGO ~

WEDNESDAY, 19 MARCH, 2008
19:00

8th ANNUAL
GREGORIAN TENEBRAE
Office of Matins and Lauds (First Office hours)
of Holy Thursday
Fr. Reginald Defour, C.S.S.P., Hebdomadary

Polyphonic music to include:
``Lamentations of Jeremias''
by T.L. Victoria (i), and Robert White (II & III) (d. 1574)
Antiphon “Christus factus est”
by Francisco Lopez Capillas (1608-1674),
& Psalm 50 “Miserere mei, Deus”
by Hernando Franco (1532–1585)


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St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
1638 Polk Ave. San Diego, CA 92103

(Intersection of Park Blvd and Washington St.,
Normal Heights, San Diego
Off-street parking beside church)

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For further information see our blogs at:

www.sandiegooratorians.blogspot.com
www.chorusbreviarii.blogspot.com

Or call John Polhamus at: 858 997 8636

UVOC Lenten Pilgrimage

Brothers Wayne and Roberto traveled 14 miles from Saint Michael's Abbey to Mission San Juan Capristrano in the 8th Annual pilgrimage hosted by Una Voce of Orange County. This time around Brother Roberto brought along the Papal flag to be carried to the Mission which was incredible. After the long penitential pilgrimage both brothers were seated in the Sanctuary where Blessed Serra once celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass. California is definitely Catholic haunted and one day I hope California will return to the full True Faith.

Viva il Papa!!
Viva Cristo Rey!!

Psalmists and Little Brothers Observe Rubrics of Passion-tide

The Brothers of the Oratory in San Diego together with Psalmists of Chorus Breviarii mark Passion-tide by the singing of the Passion-tide tone for the Compline hymn “Te lucis ante términum”.

To Thee, before the close of day
Creator of the world, we pray
that with Thy wonted favor,
Thou wouldst be our Guard and Keeper now.

From all ill dreams defend our eyes,
from nightly fears and fantasies:
tread under foot our ghostly foe,
that no pollution we may know.

O Father, that we ask be done
through Jesus Christ Thine only Son,
who, with the Holy Ghost and Thee,
shall live and reign æternally. Amen.

~ From the Roman Breviary, translation by J. M. Neale (1818-1866).

The Passion-tide tone is used until the Wednesday of Holy Week (Spy Wednesday), unless the contrary is indicated in the Rubric. Hymn tones vary from liturgical season to season.

Also in the Office of the Time, from the First Sunday of the Passion until Spy Wednesday, the versicle Gloria Patri is not said in the Short Response of Compline, but the Responsory In manus is repeated.

Missa Cantata Requiem for Mary Rains