Holy Week Masses

Thanks be to God for a lovely and meaningful Palm Sunday Processional and Mass this last Sunday to begin Holy Week!

Our next Holy Week Mass: Sung Easter Mass with Choir on Sunday, March 31 at 1:45 PM.

Apologies for the lack of updates to this site. We’re in the process of developing a proper website, soon to be unveiled.

Our facebook page, however, is ready.

Christmas and Epiphany Schedule

We are delighted to be celebrating our Saviour’s birth for the first time as the Toronto Anglican Use Sodality, bearing witness together to St. John’s declaration, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth.” Please join us!

Christmas Mass
Tuesday Dec. 25, 9:15 AM

Mary Mother of God
Vigil Mass
Monday Dec. 31, 5:00 PM (new time)

Epiphany
Evensong, Benediction and Carols
Sunday Jan. 1, Jan. 6, 7:00 PM (updated)

Sunday Masses, 1:45 PM

Masses are at Sacré-Coeur Church, 381 Sherbourne St. and fulfil the obligation for all Catholics, regardless of whether or not they are of an Anglican background. There is also free parking and a coffee hour afterwards.

The Feast of Christ the King, Nov. 25

This Sunday, Nov. 25, Mass will be celebrated for the Feast of Christ The King. The music of the Mass will include the Missa Aeterna Munera by Palestrina, plainsong propers, hymns, and the motet for double choir, Ecce Vicit Leo by Peter Philips.

Our Masses begin at 1:45pm every Sunday at Sacré-Coeur Church, 381 Sherbourne St. and fulfil the Sunday obligation for all Catholics, regardless of whether or not they are of an Anglican background. As always, there is also free parking, a children’s program for part of the service, and a coffee hour afterward. Everyone is welcome!

Music from September 16

Music of the Mass: Collegium Regale Communion Service, Herbert Howells
Offertory Motet: Nos Autem Gloriari, Palestrina

Sung Masses with Choir Update

We are very thankful that God has made it possible for us to have regular Sung Masses with a choir. Here are some clips Peregrinus captured from last Sunday.

Music for next Sunday, September 16, 2012:

Music of the Mass: Collegium Regale Communion Service, Herbert Howells
Offertory Motet: Nos Autem Gloriari, Palestrina
“We should glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, for he is our salvation, our life and our resurrection:  through him we are saved and made free.” (Gal. 6:14)

As always, our Masses begin at 1:45pm at Sacré-Coeur Church, 381 Sherbourne St. and fulfil the Sunday obligation for all Catholics.

Regular Anglican Use Sung Masses with Choir – Starting Sunday, September 9

We’re pleased to announce that from now on, beginning this Sunday, the music at our Masses will be led by a professional quartet on a regular basis, allowing us to add sacred polyphony to our plainsong and hymns each week. By so enriching the music at the Masses of the Toronto Anglican Use Sodality, we aim to fulfil what the Second Vatican Council called the true purpose of sacred music: “the glory of God and the sanctification of the faithful.”

Music for Sunday, September 9, 2012

Music of the Mass: Communion Service in F, Herbert Sumsion
Offertory Motet: View Me Lord, A Work of Thine, Richard Lloyd

As always, Mass is at 1:45pm every Sunday at Sacré-Coeur Church, 381 Sherbourne St. Remember that there is free parking, a children’s program for part of the service, and coffee hour afterward.

Please spread the word about our group and invite your friends and family.

Anglican Use Choral Mass – June 10

This Sunday, the regular weekly Mass of the Toronto Anglican Use Sodality will once again be a Choral Eucharist (our weekly service is usually a Sung Eucharist). There will be a professional choral ensemble to lead the congregation in the music of the sacred liturgy, which will feature Healey Willan’s Missa Brevis I and Durufle’s Tantum Ergo, as well as the usual complement of Anglican hymns and English plainsong.

There will be free parking at the Green P parking lot just north of the church on the east side of Sherbourne St (it’s about four doors north of the church). This is a special arrangement for this Sunday only. Because this weekend is also a special anniversary for Sacré-Coeur parish, the parish parking lot is going to be in use for the afternoon, so the Green P lot has been reserved for our use this Sunday afternoon.

As usual, Mass is at 1:45pm at Sacré-Coeur (the Church of the Sacred Heart) at 381 Sherbourne St in downtown Toronto. There is a children’s program downstairs during part of the service, and afterwards we have been invited to join the Sacre Coeur parishioners outside for their BBQ.

As always, our Masses fulfill the Sunday obligation for all Catholics, regardless of whether or not they are of an Anglican background. Everyone is welcome to attend and we hope to see you there.

Please bring your family and friends and spread the word!

A Glorious Sung Mass

Thanks be to God!  The Toronto Anglican Use Sodality’s first mass was a great liturgical success.  Almost sixty people joined to sing psalms, hymns and other praises to God, with the help of a powerful choir.  Fr. Eric Rodrigues preached a thoughtful and inspiring sermon on the importance of liturgy, and especially how Pope Benedict XVI sees a liturgy united over time as an essential part of the Church’s response to the present ‘profound crisis of faith’.  Those attending included an even mix of young adults, older adults, and families in between, and almost everyone stayed afterwards to enjoy refreshments and visiting.  (Peregrinus has also posted some comments on this mass.)

Masses will continue Sundays at 1:45 at Sacré-Coeur church, 381 Sherbourne St.  Remember that there is free parking, a children’s catechesis for part of the service, and coffee hour afterward.  Spread the word!

Weekly Mass starting May 6

It is with great joy that the Toronto Sodality of the Anglican Use announces weekly Masses according to the Anglican Use starting Sunday, May 6^th, 2012. Please spread the word!

Mass will be held every Sunday at 1:45pm at Sacré-Coeur (the Church of the Sacred Heart) at 381 Sherbourne St, at the corner of Sherbourne and Carlton, in downtown Toronto.  Anglican Use Masses fulfill Sunday obligation for all Catholics, regardless of whether or not they are of an Anglican background.  There is parking immediately north of the Church, a children’s program during the Liturgy of the Word, and coffee hour afterward.

The Toronto Anglican Use Sodality is a group of Catholics coming from the Anglican tradition who are in full communion with the Pope and who strive to preserve and celebrate our Anglican heritage as a Catholic parish church.

In the words of Anglicanorum Coetibus, we “celebrate the Holy Eucharist and the other Sacraments, the Liturgy of the Hours and other liturgical celebrations according to the liturgical books proper to the Anglican tradition, which have been approved by the Holy See, so as to maintain the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions of the Anglican Communion within the Catholic Church, as a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be shared.”

Everyone is welcome to attend and we hope to see you there.

Laus Deo!

Plans for Anglican Use Mass: Update

In preparation for the commencement of regular Anglican Use Mass, the Toronto Ordinariate group will meet at Sacré-Coeur Parish Church on April 1st at 1:30 p.m.  (We will not be meeting at St Michael’s Cathedral as previously advertised.)  Sacré-Coeur is located at 381 Sherbourne Street, Toronto (east of Jarvis, just north of Carlton).

All who are interested in assisting with these preparations are welcome to attend.