Guest Review of Mons. Stephan Heid’s Altar and Church: Principles of Liturgy...
We are grateful to Dr Michael Coughlin, Professor of Theology at Saint John’s Seminary in Boston, for sharing with NLM this review of Monsignor Stefan Heid’s book Altar and Church: Principles of...
View ArticleThe 2nd Adeodatus Conference on Catholic Education, June 18-21 at Belmont...
Find out more and register here.This four-day gathering brings together educators, scholars, and Catholic thought leaders to explore the integral formation of students and teachers in mind, body, and...
View ArticleThe Chrism Mass: Tradition, Reform and Change (Part 1) - Guest Article Abbé...
We are very grateful to Fr Jean-Pierre Herman for sharing with us this important article about the Chrism Mass and its recent reforms. The French original was published two days ago on the website of...
View ArticleSpy Wednesday 2025
It is worthy and just that we should always give Thee thanks, Lord, holy Father, eternal and almighty God, through Jesus Christ, Thy Son, our Lord, Who willed to suffer for the impious, and be unjustly...
View ArticleThe Chrism Mass: Tradition, Reform and Change (Part 2) - Guest Article by...
This is the second part of an article by Fr Jean-Pierre Herman on the blessing of oils, which is traditionally celebrated at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, and the recent reforms thereof; the first...
View ArticleHoly Thursday 2025
Thou, o Lord, didst command us to be partakers of Thy Son, sharers of Thy kingdom, dwellers in Paradise, companions of the Angels; ever provided we keep the sacraments of the heavenly host with pure...
View ArticleDesacralizing Lent
Christ in the Desert, 1898, by Breton RivièreI have been enjoying Peter Kwasniewski’s new book Close the Workshop, which argues that the old rite did not need to be fixed and that the new rite cannot...
View ArticleGood Friday 2025
The table of the Epitaphios at the end of Vespers today at St Anthony the Abbot, the Russian Greek-Catholic church in Rome.For how shall we be able to know, I and thy people, that we have found grace...
View ArticleHoly Saturday 2025
The Harrowing of Hell, by Duccio di Buoninsenga, 1308-11 R. Recessit pastor noster, fons aquae vivae, ad cujus transitum sol obscuratus est; * nam et ille captus est, qui captivum tenebat primum...
View ArticleThe Twentieth Anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s Election
On this Holy Saturday, we also mark the 20th anniversary of the election of His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. Let us remember with gratitude the gift of his papacy, his graciousness and good humor, his...
View ArticleEaster Sunday 2025
An icon of the Harrowing of Hell made in Constantinople in the late 14th century.Let all partake of the feast of faith. Let all receive the riches of goodness. Let no one lament their poverty, for the...
View ArticleThe Byzantine Paschal Hour
In the Roman Rite, the minor Hours of Easter and its octave are celebrated according to a very simple and archaic form, which consists solely of the psalmody, the antiphon Haec dies, and the prayer,...
View ArticlePope Francis RIP
Deus, qui inter summos sacerdótes fámulum tuum Franciscum ineffábili tua dispositióne connumerári voluisti: praesta, quáesumus; ut, qui Unigéniti Filii tui vices in terris gerébat, sanctórum tuórum...
View ArticleCatholic Education Foundation Seminar 2025: The Role of the Priest in Today’s...
July 16-18, at the Athenaeum of Ohio (the seminary of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati).Fr Peter Stravinskas of the Catholic Education Foundation is once again offering this excellent three-day seminar,...
View ArticleUpdate on the Palestrina500 Festival in Grand Rapids
On Friday, February 14th, the feast of Saint Valentine, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Grand Rapids, MI welcomed Gesualdo Six from London to sing a choral meditation and Mass for the parish's yearlong...
View ArticleShould Communion Sometimes Be Eliminated to Avoid Sacrilege?
In a post at his Substack entitled “Nobody is talking about this in the Catholic world,” Patrick Giroux has the courage and good sense to raise the issue of the indiscriminate reception of the Lord at...
View ArticleThe Last Service of Easter
Following up on Monday’s post about the service known as the Paschal Hour in Byzantine Rite, here is the text of another special rite, which is done after Vespers on Easter day itself. It is brief...
View ArticleSummer Graduate-Level Sacred Music Study - Tuition-free
The May 1st application deadline is approaching for summer graduate courses in sacred music at the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music. Graduate-level study structured for busy schedulesIn-person,...
View ArticleMedieval Vespers of Easter
In the Breviary of St Pius V, Vespers of Easter Sunday and the days within the octave present only one peculiarity, namely, that the Chapter and Hymn are replaced by the words of Psalm 117, “Haec dies...
View ArticleThe Paschal Stichera of the Byzantine Rite in English
One of the most magnificent features of the Byzantine Rite is a group of hymns known as the Paschal stichera. These are sung at Orthros and Vespers each day of Bright Week, as the Easter octave is...
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