Oratory Week in San Diego

The Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego

& CHORUS BREVIARII SAN DIEGO

JULY 2008 EVENTS: Oratory Week in San Diego

The Brothers of the Little Oratory are pleased to welcome Fr. Sean Finnegan, author of the “Valle Adurni” weblog, for a week of Oratorian liturgy and spirituality.

CAVEAT: Be sure to check our websites listed below for a full itenerary of liturgical activities and POSSIBLE UPDATES.

WEDNESDAY EVENING, 9 JULY 7:00pm: LADIEMASS

“Salve Sancta parens”

(Ordinary Form, Latin, ad Orientem, Gregorian Chant)

THURSDAY EVENING, 10 JULY, 7:00pm: “Month’s Mind” REQUIEM MASS

In Memoriam Fr. Arthur Malloche

(Extraordinary Form according to the 1962 Rite)

Location for the above events: To be defined

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SATURDAY MORNING, 12 JULY 10:00am: Votive Mass of the HOLY SPIRIT

For the Intentions of our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI

(Ordinary Form, Latin, ad Orientem, Gregorian Chant)

SATURDAY EVENING, 12 JULY 7:30pm: THE MUSICAL ORATORY

Oratorian spiritual exercizes and SACRED CONCERT featuring John Polhamus,

Anne Marie Dicce, Sandra Flores, and Ruben Valenzuela, Organist.

Music of Cabanilles, Mozart, Vivaldi, and more.

~ FREE ADMISSION to this concert spirituelle ~

Location for the above events: St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church,

Park Blvd. and Polk Ave., Normal Heights

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON, 13 JULY 2:30pm: SOLEMN SUNDAY VESPERS

of the 9th Sunday Post Pentecosten

’62 Breviary, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

Location for this event: St. Joseph Cathedral, 3rd & Beech,

Downtown San Diego

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~ Fr. Sean Finnegan, Celebrant and Hebdomadary ~

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For further information see our blogsite at:

http://sandiegooratorians.blogspot.com

Or visit our website at: www.chorusbreviarii.org

Or call Director John Polhamus at: 858 997 8636

Oratory Week in San Diego 2008

We are about to publish our itenerary for liturgies centered around the visit of Fr. Sean Finnegan, author of the "Valle Adurni" weblog, which we are calling "Oratory Week in San Diego 2008." Please spread the word about this remarkable week of masses, offices, and spiritual exercizes, join us as often as possible, and tell a friend! Check this site later today for full listings.

News of a Newly Ordained Alumnus

Fr Jared McCambridge F.S.S.P. (2nd from right in photo), who was ordianed on 30th May by Cardinal Castrillón in Lincoln Nebraska, will offer a Solemn High Mass at Mother Angelica's Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, AL on 1 July 2008 at 7:00 a.m. CDT, which will be broadcast live on EWTN “Daily Mass Live.”

In early 2001 Fr McCambridge was a congregant of Holy Cross Chapel TLM congregation, and was one of the original five members of the Chorus Breviarii San Diego Gregorian Chant Schola in February of that year, while still discerning his vocation. Today there are both Chorus Breviarii members and those who have gone on to become Oratorian Seculars as well, who have direct personal memories of their interactions with Father, and even in our form as Brothers of the Little Oratory we have always held him to remain a part of our scholae and community in absentia.

It was difficult losing him from our Oratorian family, but while Fr. McCambridge was becomming a priest, Chorus Breviarii was becomming the Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego. With the admission of six new brothers this past January, it was gratifying to sense that while Father was persuing his vocation, we were slowly but surely persuing ours, and achieving a much desired and highly constructive result. Very different, yet both aimed at glorifying God and building up his Church on earth.

Seeing Father McCambridge celebrate mass, even through the television, will be a cause of rejoicing in San Diego. Tu es sacerdos in aeternum. Deo Gratias

June Events ~ Petertide approaches

For readers calendars, the Brothers of the Little Oratory will sing both 1st and 2nd (opening and closing) Vespers of the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul on the evening of Saturday, 28 June, and the afternoon of Sunday, 29 June. Locations and times will be posted shortly, but consider this advance notice of these special services connected to a major Petrine feast. It will also mark the beginning of the year dedicated to St. Paul, so please join us for Solemn Vespers and Benediction.

MORE INFORMATION COMING SOON!