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Down to the Wire on New Missal
The new Missal is only two weeks away, and the national press is only now getting interested in what is about to happen to Catholicism in the English-speaking world. There is a sense that this is...
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Sacrament Houses: Fürstenwalde Cathedral
Occasionally, we have mentioned the Sakramentshaus, or sacrament house, a particular form of freestanding tabernacle, which developed in German gothic architecture from the late 14th/early 15th century...
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A Bologna School Cardinal?
From Chiesa: The school of Bologna is getting the purple One of its prominent representatives, Luis Antonio Tagle, will soon be made a cardinal. He was the one who wrote the key chapter in the world's...
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NLM Quiz no. 8: The Answer and Some Commentary on the Mozarabic Trial by Fire
As always, a great response to our quiz, and our congratulations go out to those of our readers who correctly identified that the plate depicted here, (a) comes from a Mozarabic missal, and (b) that it...
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1770 Missa Gothica seù Mozarabica: The Edition of Mozarabic Missal Printed in...
As a brief addendum to our recent Mozarabic piece, and of course to our recent quiz, some of you might find the following edition of the Mozarabic Missal rather interesting. It was published in 1770...
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Ordinariate Evensong, Los Angeles, November 20
No doubt by now you have heard the news, announced by Archbishop Wuerl, that the American ordinariate will be erected on January 1, 2012. This epochal event deserves considerably more commentary than I...
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Book Notice: The Latin Clerk: The Life, Work and Travels of Adrian Fortescue...
We received an interesting book notice recently about a new book by Fr. Aidan Nichols: The Latin Clerk: The Life, Work and Travels of Adrian Fortescue. Here is a description from the publisher,...
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Pope: Pray the Divine Office
Here at NLM we have often promoted the recitation of the Divine Office, not only in its sung form within parishes, but also outside of the parish as a particularly efficacious means for the laity to...
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Liturgical Music on Kindle
I am very pleased to announce what is probably the first-ever music book for liturgy in an ebook format. Here is The Simple English Propers for your Kindle!
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Society of Catholic Artists
New Liturgical Movement readers will be aware of events organised by the Society of Catholic Artists, you can see their web site here. Inspired by Pope Benedict XVI's call to artists to be 'custodians...
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The Basilica of San Frediano in Lucca
The Roman Martyrology notes on November 18th the translation of the relics of San Frediano, a sixth-century bishop of the Italian city of Lucca in Tuscany. His feast was traditionally kept by many...
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Chanted Propers for Christ the King
For Christ the King, Latin and Simple English Propers (now available for Kindle) INTROIT ("Entrance Chant") • Dignus Est Agnus from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo. OFFERTORY CHANT • Postula A Me...
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American Indian Requiem Masses from the Book of the Seven Nations
Chapel of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Midland, Ontario, Canada NLM Guest article by Claudio Salvucci As we continue to pray for our departed under the last of the stunning autumn foliage, there’s...
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Preparations for Advent: It's Time
As many of you will be certainly aware, the season of Advent is fast upon us, beginning this Saturday evening with First Vespers (with apologies to our Ambrosian readers who, of course, are already in...
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Establishment of Liturgical Art and Sacred Music Commission as part of CDW?
This seems worthwhile to post now, rather than waiting until tomorrow. (Thanks to a reader tip for sending this in.) This comes from Andrea Tornielli, and, for what it's worth, what I can tell you is...
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San Frediano in Lucca: An Addendum
Gregory recently wrote about that wonderful Lucchese basilica of San Frediano. As was mentioned in the comments to that post, this basilica also contains, in a chapel behind the baptismal font shown in...
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The High Altar in the Abbey of Our Lady of Tongerlo (1858-2011)
Guest article by Frater Anselm J. Gribbin, O.Praem. Part Two - Further alterations, 1919-1930 Although the abbey church at Tongerlo was more or less completed at the end of the nineteenth century,...
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Exciting News from South Florida: Extraordinary Form Mass with Archbishop Wenski
Musica Sacra Florida will be holding a conference entitled “Gregorian Chant and Modern Composition for the Catholic Liturgy: Charles Tournemire’s L’Orgue Mystiqueas Guide," to be held February 1-3,...
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St. Clement and San Clemente
Today is the feast of St. Clement, one of the earliest popes and the namesake of what is surely one of the most unique and liturgically interesting basilicas in the city of Rome -- which is saying...
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