ACT NOW – Register for Epic: A Journey Through Church History

ACT NOW – Register for Epic: A Journey Through Church History

As Catholics, we are heirs to a remarkable heritage. The history of our Faith is so much more than a list of facts and dates. It is a fascinating story of adventure, rebellion, tragedy, and triumph. A story 2,000 years in the making, one word best describes Catholic history: Epic.  Epic: A Journey through Church History is a captivating and fast-paced look at the story of the Catholic Church. Beginning with the lives of the apostles all the way up to the present day, Epic takes the immense history of the Church and simplifies it into twelve, color-coded time periods. In the course of twenty weeks, participants learn about the major people, places, and events that comprise the captivating story of Christianity. This study provides participants with an understanding of Church history that enables them to have a greater sense of meaning and identity as Catholics.

The 20-week study will be broken up into four 5-week studies across 2018. And, 2 sessions will be made available – Thursday mornings (10a in Croghan Hall) and Thursday evenings (7p in the Middle School Bldg). The winter session will cover the early Church.  Timelines are $5 and will be available for purchase at the session and will be used for all four 5-week sessions.  Registration deadline is 7 January.  The Winter Session begins on Thursday, 10 January.  For more information contact Angela Calabro.

Note:
– study guides may be shared
– you may chose to attend morning or evening, as your time allows
– you may chose to attend part of the overall sessions, as your time allows

Latin Mass Workshop, a 5-week speaker series

Latin Mass Workshop, a 5-week speaker series

Spark an understanding and love of the Extraordinary Form of Mass by attending all OR part of a 5-week workshop on Sundays at 10a starting 24 September in the Parish Activity Center (PAC) on the campus of Prince of Peace Catholic Church & School (1209 Brushy Creek Road, Taylors). Questions? Call Paul Pizzuti at 843.616.1766.

· 24 September – Why Latin? with Fr. Jason Barone of the Diocese of Charlotte

· 1 October – The Mass & the Missal with Fr. Richard Tomlinson

· 8 October – Sacred Music with Fr. Christopher Smith

· 15 October – The Beauty of the EF Mass with Joseph Pearce

· 22 October – Sacred Art & Architecture, What Changed with Vatican II with Jacob Wolfe

Prince of Peace Catholic Church invites you to attend the Extraordinary Form Mass on Sundays at 12n.
A Choral Mass for Lent – Sundays at Noon

A Choral Mass for Lent – Sundays at Noon

Two choral Masses will be featured during the season on Lent at noon – one ancient and one modern. Sundays one, two, three and five will utilize a setting known as the Missa Tornacensis – Tournai Mass.  Sunday four (Lætare) will feature the Berliner Mass by the Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt.

Dating from the first half of the fourteenth century, the Tournai Mass is often considered by musicologists to be the first unified setting of the mass ordinary. It was common practice in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries to compose polyphonic settings of single movements of the mass ordinary—such as a lone Gloria—or else larger segments thereof—such as the Sanctus  and Agnus Dei  together. This Tournai Mass is instead among the earliest extant examples of a complete setting of all five parts of the mass (plus the Ite, missa est), copied together into a signle manuscript found in Tournai, Belgium.

While the mass was clearly conceived by scribes as a single cycle, however, differences in notation across the various movements indicate that the Tournai Mass was not composed by a single person or even at one time. Rather, the mass was likely the work of several thirteenth- and fourteenth-century composers, later compiled by scribes into a complete cycle with sufficient stylistic consistency. Even so, the Tournai Mass stands as a milestone in the history of liturgical music; Guillaume de Machaut seems to have closely modelled his fourteenth-century mass (the first by a single composer) on the Tournai model, and by the mid-fifteenth century, mass composition would surpass the motet as the primary vessel for composers’ musical innovation and achievement.

Join us for Compline on Sundays during Lent

Join us for Compline on Sundays during Lent

From the earliest centuries of the Church, Christians gathered at the end of the Lord’s Day to sing psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles. The official public night prayer of the Church’s Liturgy of the Hours is Compline.  Compline comes from the latin word, completorium, as Compline is the completion of the working day.

At Compline, we examine our conscience; we sing psalms with their proper antiphons; and we listen to the Word of God. The highlight of the service is the Anthem to Our Lady, in which we process to the Lady Altar, the Faithful are sprinkled with Holy Water, and the antiphon is sung.

Sundays at 7.30p

5 March – 2 April