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To all the St. Blogs “parishoners” out there:
Do any of you know a charismatic Mass where the music is predominantly Gregorian chant? If so, name the time and place.

This past weekend my brother, Steve, who be will ordained a deacon on June 7 for the Diocese of Arlington, traveled to New York for the papal at St. Joseph Seminary on Saturday and Yankee Stadium on Sunday. He’s posted some photos from the Youth Rally on Saturday and promises to post some from the Mass in Yankee Stadium soon.

The photo is a link to the set on his flickr.com account.

UPDATE: Steve just told me that EWTN decided to use the photo for one of their websites.

They did a great job of editing it!

Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise
Without delays,
Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise
With him may’st rise;
That, as his death calcined thee to dust,
His life may make thee gold, and much more, Just.
Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part
With all thy art.
The cross taught all wood to resound his name
Who bore the same.
His stretched sinews taught all strings, what key
Is best to celebrate this most high day.
Consort both heart and lute, and twist a song
Pleasant and long:
Or since all music is but three parts vied,
And multiplied;
O let thy blessed Spirit bear a part,
And make up our defects with his sweet art.
– George Herbert

At the cry of the first bird
They began to crucify Thee, 0 Swan!
Never shall lament cease because of that.
It was like the parting of day from night.
Ah, sore was the suffering borne
By the body of Mary’s Son,
But sorer still to Him was the grief
Which for His sake
Came upon His Mother.
– From The Crucifixion by Samuel Barber

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