Fr. Matthew Spencer, OSJ

Not quite the New Year for me yet, but just want to take this moment to wish you all a Merry Christmas, a joy-filled Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God, a Happy New Year, and many blessings for you in 2024!

@alexandrite105 Another simple reason that being very late for Sunday Mass is not necessarily a sin: you might be able to catch the next Mass and fulfill your Sunday obligation! In which case, no sin has been incurred, and the Church does not forbid reception of communion at first Mass.

@alexandrite105 ...thus receiving communion can be possible, even at the last minute, though certainly not ideal as I mentioned on air.

@FrMatthewOSJ regarding the topic of going to Mass vs. receiving Communion, it sounds like you're saying though that it's ok to receive Communion in a state of mortal sin should someone get to a Sunday Mass so late they've effectively missed Mass and just barely make Communion

@alexandrite105 We were not talking about Sunday obligation, we were talking about the requirements for receiving communion at Mass...you can go back and listen to the conversation at relevantradio.com/patrick

@FrMatthewOSJ Patrick Madrid has stayed on air that there is a cut off to be considered having made your Sunday obligation (and it's not just barely making it in the door for Communion) so this is very confusing; although for a weekday Mass I completely agree with you.

I've been in Rome for the month of August for work, and I am privileged to have a private audience tomorrow with Pope Francis. 🙏

Celebrating Mass at the tomb of Mother Teresa in Kolkata on Tuesday morning... I'd be happy to remember your intentions there. Reply or DM 🙏

കേരളത്തിൽ നിന്ന് ആശംസകൾ!

Thanks @FrMatthewOSJ for joining us today for a great show about Sacred Music. Check it out here: omny.fm/shows/the-inne…

I'm curious: I wonder what the median # of confessions for a Catholic in the US is... 1 time? 2 times?

@FrMatthewOSJ will be joining us to discuss uniting our prayer & work! Tune in now: relevantradio.com/listen/stream-…

If you are a Catholic dismayed by the goings on in Rome--take heart. Focus on what is local. Build up the faith in your home, your parish, your school, your own heart. Do not concern yourself over much about things beyond your reach.

Merry Christmas! Puer natus est nobis, et filius datus est nobis.

Procession before our midnight Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe...

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Join us on Wednesday as @FrMatthewOSJ guests hosts again!

@servantofBene This is one of our back end tools for Square Note, as we try to compile audio recordings of chant. Matches about 95% of the notes correctly, and the ones it can't confidently align to a sample, it interpolates their position relative to its neighbors.

This is what my brother and I have been working on for many months: take an audio recording of a chant, analyze it's pitch changes and correlate it to the notes/neumes of the chant score, for animation and playback. 99% automated now, using hidden markov models and other tricks..