Prayers for Pope Leo
As I am sure all of our readers have heard by now, during the Angelus in St Peter’s square yesterday, Pope Leo stated that his doctors had discovered a nodule in one of his lungs, “localized, and...
View ArticleThe Feast of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
In the Byzantine tradition, today is the commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, the second held in the city of Nicaea, at which the Iconoclast heresy was condemned, and...
View ArticleDr. Kwasniewski’s Lectures in Netherlands, Belgium, and England, Oct. 24-31
I will be giving the following four lectures in Europe between Oct. 24 and Oct. 31, and hope to meet NLM readers at the events. Please come up and introduce yourself!“The Thomistic Virtue of Religion:...
View ArticleSt John Henry Newman’s Church in Oxford
To celebrate the feast day of St John Henry Newman, here are some pictures I took of the famous university church of Oxford, St Mary’s, while I was there in August of 2019. St John Henry was appointed...
View ArticleThe Priest’s Final Prayers before Holy Communion, Part 3
Lost in Translation #171 After finishing the Perceptio Corporis tui, the priest prays: Panem caelestem accipiam, et nomen Domini invocabo. Which I translate as: I will take the heavenly Bread, and I...
View Article“The Myth of Post-Conciliar Decentralization” - A New Video from Unam Sanctam...
Our friend Phillip Campbell, author of the blog Unam Sanctam Catholicam, has just put up a new video on his YouTube channel, titled “The Myth of Post-Conciliar Decentralization,” which is very much...
View ArticleThe Festival of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, October...
David Clayton and Andrew Goldstein will speak on the theme: Beauty, Truth and GoodnessI look forward to attending and speaking at the annual festival of the Anglican Ordinariate of England, Wales, and...
View ArticlePope Pius XI on the Holy Rosary
For many years, it has been our custom to mark today’s feast with an excerpt from one of Pope Leo XIII’s eleven encyclicals on the Holy Rosary, but this year, I happened to come across the only one on...
View ArticleA Cardinal’s Liturgical Ordo from 1681
Of the three books I examined in Milwaukee, in many ways this was the most fascinating: a liturgical ordo for the year 1681 (MDCLXXXI), owned by a cardinal, as the beautifully gold-stamped white...
View ArticleThe Charterhouse of Pavia
For the feast of Saint Bruno, the founder of the Carthusian Order, here are some pictures from Nicola of one of the most beautiful of the order’s monasteries, that of Pavia in Lombardy, about 8...
View ArticleOn Gothic Art, Part 1
The art of pilgrimageIn this and another post next week, I want to look at the Gothic style of Christian art: where it came from, what makes it theologically and artistically distinctive, and how to...
View ArticleWhy Translation Matters
In the post-Conciliar Rite, yesterday was the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, and in the current year of the three-year cycle of Sunday readings (A), the Gospel was Matthew 21, 33-43, the parable of the...
View ArticleA Proper Hymn of St Francis of Assisi
This year the Church marks the 8th centenary of the death of St Francis of Assisi, which took place later on the evening of October 3rd, 1226. Following the ancient (and indeed pre-Christian) principle...
View ArticleThe Book of Hours of Marguerite of Orléans (Part 2)
This is the second set of images from one of the finest Books of Hours in the vast collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Département des Manuscrits, Latin 1156B), made around 1430 for a...
View ArticleThe Vespers Hymn for the Feast of the Guardian Angels
A very nice alternation of chant and polyphony, by the Ensemble Venance Fortunat. The English translation is that of Alan Gordon McDougall (1896-1965). 1. Custodes hominum psallimus angelos, Naturae...
View ArticleThe Priest’s Second Prayer for Holy Communion
Lost in Translation #170 After praying the Domine Jesu Christe, the priest prays: Perceptio Corporis tui, Domine Jesu Christe, quod ego indignus sumere praesumo, non mihi proveniat in judicium et...
View ArticleThe Book of Hours of Marguerite of Orléans (Part 1)
A good way to start the Marian month of October is by enjoying this particularly glorious Book of Hours, since the principal text in any such book is always the Little Office of the Virgin Mary. This...
View Article“The Mystery of the Orthodox Liturgy”: A New Video about the Byzantine Rite
In February, we shared news of the publication of a handbook for the Byzantine Rite, entitled “The Divine Services of the Orthodox Church with Commentary”, from St Symeon of Thessalonica Press, a...
View ArticleSt Jerome’s Lion
There are very few episodes of what we might call a legendary character attached to the figure of St Jerome, at least in part because we have so much authentic information about his life from his own...
View ArticlePhotos of a Missale Romanum Printed in Antwerp, 1616
As mentioned last week, my visit to Milwaukee gave me the opportunity to view several rare books in a friend's collection. Today I will share some photos of a Missale Romanum printed in Antwerp in...
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