The Hymn of the Ember Saturday Masses
At all four of the Ember Saturday Masses, the fifth Old Testament reading is the same, taken from the third chapter of Daniel, in which the three young men, Ananiah, Azariah and Misael, are thrown into...
View ArticleAn Old Documentary about Chartres Cathedral
Here’s another win for the YouTube suggestion algorithm, which showed up after the post which I made on September 10th that included a recent documentary about the cathedral of Chartres: namely, a...
View ArticleThe Priest’s First Prayer before Holy Communion
Lost in Translation #169 After the Kiss of Peace, the priest prepares for his Holy Communion with two prayers in the Orations style. Both are “shoots that grew from the still living roots of the...
View ArticleThe Rite of the Transitus of Saint Francis: Restoring True Devotion to One of...
On this feast of the Stigmata of St Francis, we are very glad to share this announcement sent to us by Fr Joannes Smith, about the rite of the Transitus of St Francis, a commemoration of the Saint’s...
View ArticleThe Desert Great-Great Grandfathers
One stumbles across the most remarkable things on the internet. Today I learned that September 17 is the feast day of an Orthodox Saint named Joachim, a Chalcedonian Patriarch of Alexandria, (formerly...
View ArticleSt Satyrus, the Brother of St Ambrose
On the calendar of the Ambrosian Rite, today is the feast of St Satyrus, the brother of St Ambrose. Our only sources for his life are two orations delivered by his brother, one on the day of his death,...
View ArticleThe Ember Wednesday of September 2026
Truly it is worthy and just, right and profitable to salvation that we should give Thee thanks always and everywhere, o Lord, Holy Father, almighty and eternal God: because Thou didst beneficially...
View ArticleInvalidating the Mass Is Not as Easy As Some Seem to Think
Photo by Fr. Lawrence Lew OP (source)Not long ago, a priest wrote to me with some questions prompted by recent events:Does Saint Thomas teach that the intention of the priest pertains only to the words...
View ArticleThe Iconographic Style, #1: Truths and Myths
What is an icon? Where the tradition came from, and the modern myths that have grown up around it.The first of two related articles on the iconographic tradition of sacred art. This first article...
View ArticleDurandus on the Exaltation of the Cross
This feast is called the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, because Chosroas, the king of the Persians, came to Jerusalem, and took away with him from there the wood of the Lord’s Cross, and having made for...
View ArticleThe Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
O Lord, look unto my aid; let them be confounded and ashamed, who seek after my soul to take it away. O Lord, look unto my aid. (The Offertory of the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost.)Offertorium, Ps....
View ArticleDurandus on the Kiss of Peace
Following up on Dr Foley’s article of yesterday on the kiss of peace, here is an excerpts from our friend William Durandus’ Rationale Divinorum Officiorum on the same subject. (book IV, chapter 53.)...
View ArticleThe Most Holy Name of Mary 2026
Truly it is worthy and just, right and profitable to salvation that we should give Thee thanks always, here and everywhere, o Lord, Holy Father, almighty and eternal God: Who willed the blessed Virgin...
View ArticleSingCon Liturgical Live-Streams This Weekend
SingCon is an annual gathering of cantors, choristers, choir directors, and anyone interested in the musical tradition of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church, held with the goal of advancing the state...
View ArticleThe Prayer for Peace and the Peace
Lost in Translation #168 After the commingling and the Agnus Dei the priest silently prays the following: Domine Jesu Christe, qui dixisti Apostolis tuis: Pacem relinquo vobis, pacem meam do vobis: ne...
View ArticleOur Lady and the Cathedral of Chartres
We are now in the midst of an octave that contains three feasts of the Virgin Mary, her Nativity on September 8th, her Holy Name on the 12th, and the Seven Sorrows on the 15th. The historical starting...
View ArticleThe Audible Recitation of the Secret Priestly Prayers of the Divine Liturgy...
St. Basil the Great praying during the Holy Anaphora (source)A guest article by Pan. Papadimitriou, PhD“Having shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret”, Mat. 6:5–6“While the Secret prayer is...
View ArticleLiturgical Notes on the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
Advent is considered the start of the Roman Rite’s liturgical year as a matter of logic and convention, but is not formally designated as such in the liturgy itself. In the Byzantine Rite, on the...
View ArticleNew England Sacred Music Workshop, October 15-17
At St Benedict Abbey, Still River, MA I am happy to promote the New England Sacred Music Workshop 2026, offered in conjunction with St Benedict Abbey. The workshop focuses on both chant and polyphony,...
View ArticleThe Vigil of the Nativity of the Virgin
The origin of the feast of the Virgin Mary’s Nativity is a matter of speculation, and the reason for the choice of date is unknown. It was celebrated at Constantinople by the 530s, when St Romanus the...
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