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Mount Calvary Church<\/span><\/p>\n A Roman Catholic Parish<\/p>\n The Personal Ordinariate of S. Peter<\/p>\n Eutaw Street and Madison Avenue<\/p>\n Baltimore, Maryland<\/p>\n Rev. Albert Scharbach, Pastor<\/em><\/p>\n Andrew Johnson, Organist and Music Director<\/em><\/p>\n Lent I<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n January 21, 2021<\/p>\n 8:00 A.M. Said Mass<\/p>\n 10:00 A.M. Sung Mass<\/p>\n This mass will be livestreamed<\/p>\n _______________<\/p>\n Anthems<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Remember not, Lord, our offences, nor the offences of our forefathers; neither take thou vengeance of our sins: spare us, good Lord, spare thy people, whom thou hast redeemed with thy most precious blood, and be not angry with us for ever.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Great Litany\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Great Litany<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>was the first service written in English. It was composed by Thomas Cranmer in 1544 from older litanies: the Sarum rite litany, a Latin litany composed by Martin Luther, and the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. The word litany comes from the Latin\u00a0litania<\/em>, from the Greek\u00a0lit\u00ea<\/em>, meaning \u201cprayer\u201d or \u201csupplication.\u201d Litanies are penitential exercises. They are the urgent supplications of the people of God suffering under or dreading divine judgements and asking to be spared or delivered from calamities which at the same time they confess that they deserve. After invoking the Trinity, we ask to be delivered from the evils that come upon us because of sin: heresy, schism, natural disasters, political disasters, war, violence, murder, and sudden death. As our country experiences severe strains in a pandemic, let us pray this with especial fervor, knowing that God hears the prayers of those who humble themselves before Him.<\/p>\n