Sarum Use Vespers and Liturgical Art – Heaven on Earth
Some NLM readers will already be aware of the Sarum Use Vespers and Benediction that took place on March 1 at the Princeton University Chapel. Here, I present an account of a talk I gave before the...
View ArticlePalm Sunday 2024 Photopost (Part 3)
Hoping to do some justice to the large number of beautiful photos we have received, I have decided to split those that remain from Palm Sunday into two posts, before we move on to the Triduum and...
View ArticleThe Exsultet, The Happy Fault, and the Queen of Heaven: Guest Article by...
Robert W. Keim is a secular brother of the London Oratory of St. Philip Neri, a linguist, and a literary scholar specializing in the poetic and dramatic literature of the English Renaissance. A...
View ArticlePalm Sunday 2024 Photopost (Part 4)
This post concludes the Palm Sunday part of the this year’s series of Holy Week photoposts, and as always, we want to thank all the contributors for sharing these beautiful pictures with us. We will...
View ArticleAmbrosian Music for Eastertide
Here are three very nice pieces of Ambrosian chant for the Paschal season, sung by the Gruppo di Canto Ambrosiano (Ambrosian chant group) conducted by maestro Luigi Benedetti. The first is the...
View ArticleThe Newly Restored Façade of Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome
Thanks to our dear friend Agnese Bazzucchi, the Roman Pilgrim, for sharing with us these pictures of the newly restored façade of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, the Fraternity of St Peter’s church...
View ArticleTenebrae 2024 Photopost (Part 1)
Marching on into the Triduum, here is the first set of photos of Tenebrae services. As always, there is always room and time for more, so please feel free to send yours in to...
View ArticleA Review of Eleanor Parker’s Winters in the World
St. Augustine preaching to Ethelbert and BerthaEleanor Parker’s Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year (London: Reaktion Books, 2022)It is said that when Pope St Gregory the Great...
View ArticleBlessed Rolando Rivi
On this day in the year 1945, a 14-year old Italian seminarian named Rolando Rivi died as a martyr in a little town called Monchio, in the province of Modena. Rolando was born in 1931, and began...
View ArticleTenebrae 2024 Photopost (Part 2)
This post concludes the Tenebrae part of our Holy Week photopost series; we will move on to the other ceremonies of the Triduum next week. Many thanks to all the contributors - feliciter!Oratory of Ss...
View ArticleGood Shepherd Sunday 2024
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep,...
View ArticleThe “Private” Mass from Its Origins to the Thirteenth Century (Conclusion)
The “Private” Mass from Its Origins to the Thirteenth CenturyCanon Gilles Guitard, ICRSP(Part 1, providing the history of this topic from antiquity to the 13th century, may be found here.)The...
View ArticleImportant Conference in London: The Royal Priesthood and the Renewal of the...
June 20-22, at St Mary’s University in London: Register Today.My friend Fr Andrew Marlborough sent me information about what promises to be a great conference, which he is helping to organise, on “The...
View ArticleThe Hours Of King Henry II of France
Here is another very beautiful illuminated manuscript from the website of the Bibliothèque national de France (Département des manuscrits, Latin 1429), a book of Hours made for King Henry II of...
View ArticleThe Solemnity of St Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church 2024
From the decree of the Sacred Congregation for Rites Quemadmodum Deus, dated Dec. 8, 1870, by which St Joseph was formally recognized with the title “Patron of the Catholic Church”. Translation from...
View ArticleHoly Thursday 2024 Photopost (Part 1)
We continue with our regular series of photoposts of your liturgies of the Triduum. As is usually the case, it’s a slow process to gather all the albums together, select the photos among the larger...
View ArticleThe Hours of Catherine de’ Medici, Queen of France
After I did a post on Tuesday about the book of hours of King Henry II of France (born 1519; reigned 1547-59), reader Steven Hensley noted in the combox that his Queen, Catherine de’ Medici (1519-89),...
View ArticleThe Bells of Easter, Part 1: The Golden Bells of the High Priest - Guest...
Onec again, we are grateful to Mr Robert Keim for sharing some of his writing with us, this time in a two part article on the subject of the liturgical use of bells. Mr Keim is a secular brother of the...
View ArticleReview of Harry Crocker, Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic...
Siege of Constantinople, Chronique de Charles VII by Jean Chartier Harry W. Crocker III is no stranger to traditionalist debates and The Latin Mass magazine. In the 2002 Summer issue, Thomas Woods...
View ArticleMore on the Restored Façade of Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome
We recently noted that the façade of the FSSP church in Rome, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, has been beautifully restored to its original appearance, after a cleaning project of several month’...
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