CHURCH OF SAINT AGNES CHRISTMAS • DECEMBER 25, 2017

535 Thomas Ave. | Saint Paul, Minnesota 55103 | 651.925.8800 | www.churchofsaintagnes.org

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Merry Christmas! Archbishop Hebda to Celebrate on the Patronal Feast On behalf of all clergy and staff of the Church of Saint of Saint Agnes: 10:00 am Mass, January 21, 2018 Agnes and Saint Agnes School, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and offer you our prayers for a fruitful New Year!

Welcome to All Visitors I would like to extend a hearty welcome to all visitors with us at Saint Agnes to celebrate the Christmas Season. Whether you are here for the first time, an occasional atten- dee or a regular guest, I hope your attendance at our litur- gies brought you closer to the Christ Child.

Our weekly schedule of Masses, Devotions and Confessions is as follows and can also be found on our website:

Sunday Masses (English unless otherwise noted) Saturday 5:15 pm (Vigil Mass) Sunday: 6:30, 7:30 (Latin EF ) 8:30, 10:00 am (Latin OF High Mass), 12 Noon Please make plans to join us for the 10 am Mass on Sunday, Weekday Masses January 21, 2018 as we celebrate our Patroness, Saint Agnes, 8:00 am, Monday through Friday on her feast day. Archbishop Hebda will be the primary 8:00 am, Saturday (Sung ) celebrant and homilist for the Mass. Please consider chang- 5:15 pm Fridays ing your normal Sunday Mass plans to celebrate this feast During school year, an additional Mass on Thursday mornings at with your fellow parshioners and the Archbishop at the 10 9:30 am Confessions am Mass that day. Fridays 4:00-5:00 pm (Chapel) Saturdays: 4—5 pm (Upper Church) & 8—9 pm (Chapel) There will also be a pancake breakfast that Sunday hosted by Every Tuesday following the 7:00 pm Novena (Chapel) the Knights of Columbus. Proceeds from this breakfast will Adoration and Devotions support Vocations Pilgrimages undertaken by high school Tuesday: students in Saint Agnes School. All are welcome to attend!

7:00 pm Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Chapel) 7:30 pm Confessions, Chaplet of Divine Mercy & Rosary CHORALE AND ORCHESTRA NOTES

Friday: Exposition of the following the 8:00 am W. A. Mozart, Mass No. 16 in C Major Mass until 5:00 pm Benediction (Chapel) “Krönung” (Coronation), Saturday: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 4 — 5:00 pm; K 317 (1779) 5 pm—Benediction (Upper Church) SCHEDULE NOTE: Christmas Music will begin on Decem- Sunday: 3:00 pm during Exposition of the Blessed Sacra- ment and concluding with Benediction (Upper Church) ber 24th at 11:15 pm, and Midnight Mass will begin 45 min- utes later on December 25th at 12:00 am. If you are interested in becoming a member of our parish, please contact the Parish Office at 651-925-8800 or consult One story is that Mozart composed his for the parish website, www.churchofsaintagnes.org. the shrine of Maria Plain, a pilgrimage place on a hill over- looking the city of , where an icon of the Blessed Christmas Schedule Mother and Child was crowned in 1751, indicating that it Everyone is invited to continue the liturgical celebration of had been the place where a miracle had been performed Christmas by attending our daily, 5:15 pm Latin OF High through the intercession of the Mother of God. It was said Masses with Chant in the Upper Church. These liturgies in that Mozart wrote the Mass in fulfillment of a vow to keep the evening of the Octave of Christmas are a long-standing the anniversary of the crowning of the holy icon—thus the tradition at Saint Agnes. name “Coronation Mass.” More recently a scholarly consen- 2018 Faith and Tradition Capital Campaign sus has emerged that the nickname was assigned to it after The impending arrival of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, , the Hapsburg court Kapellmeister, con- Mother of the to teach in our fine school and live ducted a performance of the Mass at the Prague coronation in our convent in late summer 2018 is the impetus behind of Leopold II, as King of Bohemia, on September 6, 1791, less the soon-to-be-announced “Faith and Tradition” capital than four months before Mozart’s death. campaign. Our recent survey of the parish demonstrated Short as it is, the Coronation Mass has many beautiful pas- the excitement of the members of the Saint Agnes parish sages. The Mass is scored for , horns, two , and school families to support the remodeling of the con- three , , continuo, organ, and strings. The vent for the sisters and to fund a few other projects on our , Gloria, , and all begin with C major cho- campus. Please pray for the success of this campaign and ral “proclamations”, accompanied by timpani and trom- the safe arrival of the sisters here in Minnesota. bones. The foreshadows Countess Almaviva’s Sincerely yours in Christ, despairing , “Dove sono,” in Le nozze di Figaro, K 492 Rev. Mark Moriarty (1786).