Saturday, 25 November 2017

Christ the King at STM Toronto

The Catholic Parish of

St. Thomas More

263 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto

stmtoronto.ca 647-200-8981

Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter

Jesus Christ,

King of the Universe

November 26, 2017

Sung Mass and Confirmation

Hymn numbers refer to the green New English Hymnal.

Entrance Hymn # 385 – Jesu, the very thought of thee (St. Botolph)

Introit

[Cantors] Worthy is the Lamb that was / slain (†) * to receive

power, and riches, and / strength, and honour: *

[Full] to him be glory and dominion for ev//er and ever.

[Cantors] Give the King thy judge/ments, O God: *

[Full] and thy righteousness unto // the King’s Son.

[Cantors] Glory be to the Father, and / to the Son: *

[Full] and to the // Ho-ly Ghost.

[Cantors] As it was in the beginning, is now, and / ev-ershall^be:

[Full] world without // end, A-men.

Worthy is the Lamb that was / slain (†) to receive power,

and riches, and/strength, and honour: to him be glory

and dominion for ev//er and ever.

Kyrie Merbecke

Gloria Communion Service in F Major – Harold Darke

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD

The Lesson (sit) Ezekiel 34: 11-12, 15-17

The Gradual

[Cantors] His dominion shall be also from one sea / to the other: *

[Full] and from the flood unto // the world’s end.

[Cantors] All kings shall fall / down be-fore^him: *

[Full] all nations shall // do him service.

The Epistle 1 Corinthians 15: 20-27, 28

[Cantors] Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

[Full] Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

[Cantors] His dominion is an ever/lasting^Dominion, (†) *

which shall not / pass a-way:

[Full] and his kingdom that which shall not // be des-troyed.

Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

The Holy Gospel Matthew 25: 31-46

The Homily Fr. John Hodgins

Reception and Confirmation of:

Christopher Richard Collins and Edward Thomas Lauder

THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Bread and wine are offered with tithes while prayers are said by the priest.

Offertory Mode VI

[Cantors] Desire of / me, (†) * and I shall give ye the nations

for / thine in-heritance: *

[Full] and the utmost parts of the earth for / thy pos-session.

Hymn #432–O what their joy and their glory must be. (Regnator Orbis)

Motet: Tui sunt caeli/ “Thine are the heavens” – William Byrd

Sanctus & Benedictus Merbecke

The Roman Canon (kneel)

The Lord’s Prayer (stand) Merbecke

THE COMMUNION RITE

Agnus Dei Merbecke music – page 54

Communion Mode VI

[Cantors] The Lord remaineth a / King for ever:

[Full] the Lord shall give his people the bless//ing of peace

Communion Motet: O God, the King of Glory – Henry Purcell

THE CONCLUDING RITES (kneel)

Recessional Hymn # 381 – Jerusalem the golden (Ewing)

The Angelus

Please join us following Mass for the Mary, Mother of God

School Sale with refreshments in the Parish Hall.

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Daily Mass in the Ordinary Form is celebrated weekdays at 8:00 a.m., Saturdays and holidays at 10:00 a.m.

Confessions are heard fifteen minutes before Mass.

Live streaming of Sunday Sung Mass at 12:30 weekly at stmtoronto.ca

This is a ministry for all who are ill, shut-in and/ or who live at a distance.

ADVENT LESSONS AND CAROLS

with

BENEDICTION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Tuesday, December 19

at 7:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 24

Fourth Sunday of Advent 12:30 pm SUNG MASS

Christmas Eve * 6:00 pm D.W. HIGH MASS

Saturday, 18 November 2017

The best way to prepare for Christmas!

Wednesday, 15 November 2017

Hear Music and Homily from Remembrance Sunday Requiem High Mass at STM Toronto

This link will take you to the YouTube recording of the Remembrance Sunday Mass with the homily by Fr. Daniel Callam and special music by the STM Choir.

Click here:
Requiem High Mass

Monday, 13 November 2017

Fr. Callam's new book - A CATHOLIC GOES TO THE MOVIES

Coming out this month (November 2017) a distinctly Catholic view of recent popular films.

A Catholic Goes to the Movies, is a collection of thirty-seven film reviews by Father Daniel Callam, CSB.

The author is the founder and editor of The Canadian Catholic Review. The reviews found in this book were originally published in The Chesterton Review.

Father Callam’s witty and insightful analysis of contemporary films seen through the double lens of the Catholic faith and the works of G.K. Chesterton offers the reader an entirely new perspective on an important medium.

The films are seen as mirrors of the culture in which they originate and as windows that reveal both the Christian roots of the culture and the spiritual malaise that afflicts it. The reviews reflect the familiarity of the author with the classics of literature, both English and French.

Fr. Callam discusses the moral problems in twenty-first-century films with dazzling virtuosity and wide-ranging erudition. This is Catholic criticism that is in every way catholic. Father Owen Lee, CSB

The book will be of value to anyone seeking more than entertainment by going to the movies.

A CATHOLIC GOES TO THE MOVIES

199 pages, 14.95 CDN, at www.justinpress.ca.

A book launch will be held on Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 1:45 p.m. at Holy Rosary Church Hall, 354 St. Clair Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario.

Fr. Daniel Callam, CSB, has graciously agreed to assist at STM, Toronto and to preach on occasion.

Remembrance Sunday 2017 - Requiem Mass with Fr. Daniel Callam preaching

Requiem High Mass for Remembrance Sunday at STM, Toronto.
Celebrant Fr. John Hodgins, Preacher Fr. Daniel Callam

Four of the six Hennessy children (my mother' family) served in the Canadian Forces during WW II.

All are now deceased (left to right): Arthur (left killed in action at Ortona, Italy - December 1943),

Marjorie (Mum), died September 2017 at the age of 101.

Max, killed after the war in an industrial accident, and Mildred who died in the 90s.

May the souls of the faithful, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Requiem aeternam dona eis.

Fr. John L. Hodgins

Saturday, 11 November 2017

Music for Remembrance Sunday Requiem High Mass – Nov. 12 at 12:30 STM, Toronto

Kyrie

Missa pro defunctis, Palestrina

Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei

Missa defunctorum – Jacob C. non Papa

Hymns: New English Hymnal

Let saints on earth in concert sing – Dundee

Contakion of the Dead - Kiev Melody

Motets:

Souls of the Righteous – T. Tertius Noble

Beati quorum via – C. V. Stanford

The Royal Anthem with the “Coronation” introduction

Organ Postlude: Fugue in E-flat Major (Clavierübung III) (J. S. Bach) − J. S. Bach

Monday, 6 November 2017

A Homily for Trinity XXI (31A)

In Jesus time on earth, the Pharisees and Scribes were looked to as interpreters of faith and morals. Their learning and the respect people had for the Torah gave them many social privileges.

However, in the name of Moses and the Law of God they imposed burdens on the people of Israel (Matthew 20:25). Like the priests Malachi condemned in today’s First Reading, they caused many to falter on their path to God's eternal Kingdom.

These spiritual leaders of Israel failed to be caring fathers of God’s people. Moses, on the other hand, was a humble father-figure, preaching the law by practising it – living it – interceding and begging God’s mercy and forgiveness for the people’s sins (Exodus 32:9-14; Psalm 90).

Jesus reminds us today that all fatherhood – whether in the nuclear family or for the people of God – comes from “our Father” in heaven (see Ephesians 3:15). The one and eternal Father.

Jesus doesn’t mean we’re literally to call no man “father.” He himself referred to Israel’s founding fathers (John 7:42) and the Apostles taught about natural fatherhood (Hebrews 12:7-11), and described themselves as spiritual fathers (1 Corinthians 4:14-16)

The fatherhood of the Apostles and their successors: priests and bishops, as well as the spiritual parenthood given to the Church as a whole is meant to raise us as God’s children. All of us are given new life in baptism, and are fed with the spiritual milk of the Gospel and the Eucharist (1 Peter 2:2-3).

St. Paul, in today’s Epistle, affirms that the Church needs to do as he has done in acting as a nursing mother.

This so-called binary reality of parenthood: father and mother, is something that is challenged today in secular Western society through the politics of sex and gender; but parenthood of mother and father is foundational not only to the Church but to any healthy society. Today, people are losing their jobs at teaching institutions for saying just this, for saying what has been accepted since the beginnings of human civilization.

God’s nurturing parenthood, of course, transcends all human notions of fatherhood and motherhood ( Psalm 131:1-3, Isaiah 66:13) but also affirms the binary nature of human life as given to us by God “and God created them male and female” (Genesis) Anomalies in human physiology must, of course, be dealt with compassionately gut notwithstanding, anomalies should not shape social norms but rather be shaped by Truth, the given Truth of revelation and the magisterium – the teaching authority of the Church which guides us in faith and morals.

Jesus has shown us the Father (John 14:9) coming to gather His children as a hen gathers her young (Matthew 23:37). We’re all brothers and sisters, our Lord tells us today. And all of us and especially our spiritual parents and teachers – are to trust in Jesus, humbly, like children on a mothers’ laps and guard the family of faith.

Malachi 1:14-2:2, 8-10; Psalm 131:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 2:7-9, 13; Matthew 23:1-12

Thursday, 2 November 2017

Mass Music for Sunday Nov. 5 at STM Toronto

Before Mass:

Verset 4, “Deposuit potentes,” Magnificat Sexti Toni

− Jehan Titelouze (Organ Works, p. 133)

Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei:

Communion Service in F Major – Harold Darke

Motets:

Vir erat in terra Hus – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

O King all glorious – Healey Willan

Organ:

Fuga sopra il Magnificat, “Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn” (BWV 733) − J. S. Bach

Remembrance Sunday Mass 12:30 noon

An Act of Remembrance for those who have given their lives in service to God and humanity will precede the High Mass on Sunday at STM, Toronto.

Refreshments will follow.

All Canadian Forces personnel are especially welcome.