• Saint Mary of Victories

    Catholic Church

    Reverent  Faithful  Welcoming 

    Since 1843

  • Saint Mary of Victories

    Catholic Church

    Reverent  Faithful  Welcoming 

    Since 1843

  • Saint Mary of Victories

    Catholic Church

    Reverent  Faithful  Welcoming 

    Since 1843

  • Saint Mary of Victories

    Catholic Church

    Reverent  Faithful  Welcoming 

    Since 1843

  • Saint Mary of Victories

    Catholic Church

    Reverent  Faithful  Welcoming 

    Since 1843

  • Saint Mary of Victories

    Catholic Church

    Reverent  Faithful  Welcoming 

    Since 1843

  • Saint Mary of Victories

    Catholic Church

    Reverent  Faithful  Welcoming 

    Since 1843

  • Saint Mary of Victories

    Catholic Church

    Reverent  Faithful  Welcoming 

    Since 1843

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About St. Mary of Victories

Historic Saint Mary of Victories Catholic Church, just south of the Gateway Arch, is a splendid and unique part of the heritage of old Saint Louis.

Founded in 1843 for German immigrants, it became the city's Hungarian Catholic Church and cultural center in 1956. Its acclaimed architecture, beautiful old paintings, ornate statuary and noted historical personalities have earned it a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of the few consecrated churches in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, and has a magnificent high altar with hundreds of sacred relics.

Saint Mary’s accordingly offers a classically reverent style of worship in proclaiming the joy of Christ's Gospel to locals and tourists alike. The 11 a.m. Sunday Mass is mainly in English, with a touch of Hungarian in Scripture and song.

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Reflections From Our Saints...

  • SMOV - Infant of Prague
  • St. Therese of Liseaux
  • St. Elizabeth of Hungary
  • SMOV - Cabrini
  • SMOV - Anthony (1)
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History

St. Mary of Victories has played an important role in the development of St. Louis... Read More
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Architecture

St. Mary of Victories is an excellent example of pre-Civil War architecture in St. Louis... Read More
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Hungarian Parish

St. Mary of Victories has been the official home of the Hungarian Catholics in St. Louis since 1957... Read More
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Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos

Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos once preached at St. Mary of Victories... Read More
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Latin Novus Ordo Mass

St. Mary of Victories is the only place in St. Louis that celebrates the Modern Rite, ad orientem, with Gregorian Chant... Read More
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Liturgy Schedule

Mass Times

11:00 AM Sunday - Third Sunday ONLY

Ordinary Form Mass, Traditional Music, Some Latin
Hungarian Lunch After Mass - Usually $10

Confessions:  Sundays at 10:30 am
Tours Conducted Sundays after Mass

The Facilties are Not Open Other Sundays Of the Month (No Lunch)

 THERE IS NO DAILY MASS AT SMV CHAPEL

Latin Ordinary Form Mass with Gregorian Chant - One Saturday Per Month

See Web Page or Facebook Group (or Call) for Details

                                                                                                           

Note:  the 7 pm Saturday and 9 am Sunday Masses have been discontinued.  

17 February 2019, 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C)

IntroitEsto mihi in Deum, begin on F (as fa)

Alleluia: Cantate Domino, begin on F (as re)

Offertory: Salve MaterPBC, p. 126, begin on G (as sol). All sing Response; schola sing verses.

CommunionManducaverunt, begin on E♭ (as re)

RecessionalO Jesus, King most wonderful, p. 290

Mass XI, PBC p. 58. Credo III, PBC p. 77.

The Introit antiphon has three phrases:

  1. Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, in locum refugii, ut salvum me facias
  2. quoniam firmamentum meum, et refugium meum es tu
  3. et proper nomen tuum dux mihi eris et enutries me

The melody here, in the soothing Mode 6, radiates a calm confidence in God's protection and sustenance, reinforced by cadences with a repeating pitch over protectorem, (salvum me) facias, and enutrias. The first phrase begins with a minor third, then sinks to do and then rises a fourth. Then the melody begin to move above the dominant over protectorem and descend again over locum refrigerii. In the second phrase the situation is reversed. The first half with its recitative on the dominant is firm and definite; the descent occurs only in the second half. Like the first and second, the third phrase also has an ascending fourth, followed by a bistropha. Here, after an apparent calm on sol, the melody rises to a bright do. Also, please note that there is no break between mihi and in Deum, so join in just after the intonation without any hesitation.

            The little conjunction et, so loved by our Holy Father, appears often in this text, adding emphasis to the various titles and attributes of God here. Psalm 30, from which this text is drawn, was the prayer of David—a type of Christ—in his time of greatest need. And when Jesus was hanging on the cross, He prayed a verse of this psalm aloud, 'Into Your hands I commend My spirit,' which has been echoed by martyrs through the ages, and is still our nightly prayer at Compline.

You might enjoy hearing this Introit sung by the nuns of Le Barroux: http://www.gloria.tv/?media=248465.

The Alleluia verse has two phrases: 

  1. Cantate Domino canticum novum:
  2. quia mirabilia fecit Dominus.

The notation in the Triplex indicates this verse is taken from very old Antiphonaries without neumes or other forms of notation. It is a haunting, captivating melody, that enhances the well-known text (Ps 95:1) in a unique way. It ranges up and down the scale, from low to high and back down again, like the highs and lows of our daily lives. The highest point is over quia stressing the reason that we sing a new song to the Lord of Hosts: He has done marvelous things. We have just celebrated the most wonderful of those marvels: God became flesh and dwells in our midst. Still now, in Ordinary Time, he continues to do marvels in the ordinary events of our lives. Do we see them and announce them, as the Offertory bids us? 

The Communion antiphon has three phrases:

  1. Manducaverunt, et saturati sunt nimis,
  2. et desiderium eorum attulit eis Dominus:
  3. non sunt fraudati a desiderio suo.

Although the text of the first phrase is the most important, the melody emphasizes the second phrase. Its final cadence very closely resembles the close of the first division in the Mode 2 Matins responsories. Its first half has sol as its recitating note, and its second half has fa. The beginning of the third phrase makes emphatic use of the dominant, followed by the motive which closes the first phrase; the opening notes of the first are employed in the second half. The same melody, modified to fit a shorter text, is found in the Mass formulary of St. John Capistrano.

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744 South 3rd Street (at Gratiot)
Saint Louis, MO 63102-1645
(314) 231-8101

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