Joseph O'Brien

Staff Writer at San Diego Reader

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A poem for Good Friday

3 weeks ago | sandiegoreader.com | Joseph O'Brien

Detail from The Crucifixion by Giotto I.N.R.I.A rough quiet was universal in the grain,The world was sunk with a thud in its post-hole,The land planed smooth with a dead calmOn a rude length of wood. This somber season Lends itself to bare scenes Seen in bone white of moon. Sorrow’s sisters, the winter constellationsSink below spring’s crowned horizonsTo lend the cruel thorn of remembrance to timeAs old cares cease with cold easterlies Like history’s cessation itself.
Poems by William Shakespeare for his birth (and death) day

1 month ago | sandiegoreader.com | Joseph O'Brien

Three sonnets on the intricacies of love Detail from Manet's Chez le Pere Lathuille 110Alas, ’tis true, I have gone here and thereAnd made myself a motley to the view,Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear,Made old offenses of affections new. Most true it is that I have looked on truthAskance and strangely; but by all above,These blenches gave my heart another youth,And worse essays proved thee my best of love. Now all is done, have what shall have no end.
This Thursday: “The Reservation of the Blessed Sacrament” – Joseph Ratzinger's Spirit of the Liturgy at 25! – A Public Lecture by Rev. James Bradley, JCD - Adoremus

1 month ago | adoremus.org | Joseph O'Brien

2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the English translation of Joseph Ratzinger’s landmark book, The Spirit of the Liturgy. To celebrate this significant work and its impact on the life of the Church, the Society for Catholic Liturgy will dedicate its 2025 annual conference to this topic and the liturgical legacy of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI. In preparation for the conference, we are hosting a year long series of talks based on the 12 chapters of the book.
St. Mark's City Heights Episcopal Church looks for love

1 month ago | sandiegoreader.com | Joseph O'Brien

Contact: 4227 Fairmount Ave, San Diego 619-283-6242 www.stmarks-cityheights.orgMembership: 25Pastor: Father Richard LeeAge: 53 Born: Leicester, EnglandFormation: University of Wales, Bangor, Wales; Episcopal Diocese of San Diego School for MinistryYears Ordained: 9San Diego Reader: How long do you spend preparing your sermons? Father Richard Lee: I probably spend up to 10 hours putting a sermon together.
Call for Papers—Conference on Ratzinger’s The Spirit of the Liturgy - Adoremus

1 month ago | adoremus.org | USCCB Committee |Joseph O'Brien

Join the Society for Catholic Liturgy’s 2025 conference, “The Spirit of the Liturgy at 25: The Liturgical Legacy of Joseph Ratzinger—Benedict XVI,” from September 25-26 at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. If you wish to present a paper, proposals are due April 1, 2025. Find more information about the conference and paper proposals at https://liturgysociety.org/page/Conference.
Three poems by John Fletcher

1 month ago | sandiegoreader.com | Joseph O'Brien

On the 400th anniversary of his death Death Comes to the Banquet Table, Giovanni Martinelli Take, Oh Take Those Lips AwayTake, oh take those lips away,That so sweetly were forsworn,And those eyes, the break of day,Lights that do mislead the morn:But my kisses bring again,Seals of love, but sealed in vain. Hide, oh hide those hills of snow,Which thy frozen bosom bears,On whose tops the pinks that growAre yet of those that April wears.
Liturgical Books Currently in Use

2 months ago | adoremus.org | USCCB Committee |Joseph O'Brien |Aaron Williams

Editor’s note: The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy not only called for the reform and renewal of the Church’s liturgical books, but also allowed for their translation into vernacular languages. While most of the Latin typical editions have been revised by now, bringing them into a “form that both testifies to the stability achieved and is worthy of the mysteries being celebrated” (Vicesimus quintus annus, 20) is an ongoing task being taken up by bishops’ conferences.
St. Teresa of Calcutta Newest Optional Memorial on Church Calendar

2 months ago | adoremus.org | Joseph O'Brien |USCCB Committee

Pope Francis has added the September 5 feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta to the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar as an optional memorial.
Message of the Holy Father on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Death of Dom Prosper Guéranger

2 months ago | adoremus.org | Joseph O'Brien |USCCB Committee

To the Very Reverend Father Dom Geoffroy Kemlin, Abbot of Saint-Pierre de Solesmes and President of the Congregation of Solesmes OSB:As you celebrate this year the 150th anniversary of the death of your founder, Dom Prosper Guéranger, I am pleased to join in your thanksgiving. I wish to express my encouragement and my affectionate closeness to those who have committed their lives in the wake of this servant of the Church, or who are working to make his life and work better known.
This Thursday: "The Altar and the Direction of Liturgical Prayer" – Joseph Ratzinger's Spirit of the Liturgy at 25! – A Public Lecture by Rev. Ryan Ruiz, SLD - Adoremus

2 months ago | adoremus.org | Jeremy J. Priest |USCCB Committee |Joseph O'Brien

2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the English translation of Joseph Ratzinger’s landmark book, The Spirit of the Liturgy. To celebrate this significant work and its impact on the life of the Church, the Society for Catholic Liturgy will dedicate its 2025 annual conference to this topic and the liturgical legacy of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI. In preparation for the conference, we are hosting a year long series of talks based on the 12 chapters of the book.