The Premonstratensians of St Philip's Priory Celebrate Their Patronal Feast
The Norbertine Canons of St Philip's Priory, Chelmsford UK, celebrated the feast day of their Holy Founder St Norbert with a Solemn High Mass sung by the Prior and Superior, Rt Rev Hugh Allan o.praem,...
View ArticleThe Feast of the Holy Trinity and Octave of Pentecost 2014
Duo Seraphim clamabant alter ad alterum: * Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth: * Plena est omnis terra gloria ejus. V. Tres sunt qui testimonium dant in cælo: Pater, Verbum, et Spíritus...
View ArticleSolemn Requiem Mass for Fr Kenneth Walker : Live Broadcast Tomorrow
Tomorrow, Monday, June 16th, the Very Rev. Fr. John Berg, Superior General of the Fraternity of St. Peter, will celebrate a Solemn Requiem Mass for Fr. Kenneth Walker, who was killed at the FSSP house...
View ArticleBook Review: The Sacred Liturgy, Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of...
The Sacred Liturgy, Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church. The Proceedings of the International Conference on the Sacred Liturgy – Sacra Liturgia 2013. Ed. Alcuin Reid. San Francisco:...
View ArticleVia Juventutem DC
Gregory has already posted below about the Solemn Requiem Mass for the slain Fr. Kenneth Walker, to be broadcast on LiveMass.net, in a little over an hour today (6:30 PM Fribourg time, 12:30 PM...
View ArticleDom Alcuin Reid to Speak at St. Mary Church, Norwalk, CT
Following upon this morning's post of a review of The Sacred Liturgy, Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church, I'm delighted to announce a talk by Dom Alcuin Reid to be given this...
View ArticleLiving Latin Program at Belmont Abbey College
The second annual Veterum Sapientia Latin conference is being hosted at Belmont Abbey College outside Charlotte, NC this July 27-August 2.The program is for priests, seminarians, and religious (male...
View ArticleShould There Be A Frame on Sacred Art? What Should it Look Like?
Should it be like this? or this? or this?...
View ArticleRevised Tomb Design for Richard III Revealed
“Plain and not honest is too harsh a style.” --William Shakespeare, Richard IIIMuch digital ink has already been spilled on the plans for the burial of the remains of England's King Richard III,...
View ArticleThe Fourth Centenary of the Rituale Romanum of Pope Paul V : June 17, 1614
With the bull Apostolicæ sedi of June 17, 1614, Pope Paul V Borghese promulgated the Rituale Romanum (Roman Ritual) four centuries ago. The Rituale is the penultimate liturgical book of the Tridentine...
View ArticleEcce Panis Angelorum
From the Solemn Mass with the St. Cecilia choir to the glorious outdoor procession with the Blessed Sacrament in the parish gardens, the feast of Corpus Christi at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago is...
View ArticleCanons Regular of the New Jerusalem 12th Anniversary Mass
The Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem will have a special Mass on Friday to celebrate the anniversary of their foundation, with Gregorian chant and the Palestrina Mass for six voices Viri Galilaei....
View ArticlePhotos of the Recent FSSP Ordinations in Virgina
Our thanks to Mr. Craig Spiering of Spiering Photography for his kind permission to share with our readers some of his photographs from the FSSP Ordination recently held this past Saturday at the...
View ArticleBook Review: Saint Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, and Gradual
Saint Isaac Jogues Illuminated Missal, Lectionary, and Gradual. 818 pages, hardcover, with full color section. Owasso, OK: Pope John Paul II Institute for Liturgical Renewal, 2014. $22.99 (single...
View ArticleDom Alcuin Reid to Speak at Holy Innocents, New York City
Dom Alcuin Reid will present a talk this Sunday, June 22nd, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan (37th Street between Broadway and 7th Avenue), after Solemn Vespers and Benediction at 2:30...
View ArticleTwo Corpus Christi Processions
Our friends at Juventutem DC send to us news of a sung Extraordinary Form Mass and Procession to be held on June 19, that is, today, at 6:30 PM in the Copley Crypt at Georgetown. You can find more...
View ArticleTwo Eucharistic Pieces from My Drafting Board
As it is, in the traditional calendar and some parts of the world, Corpus Christi, I thought I would share two recent commissions on a Eucharistic theme. The first was commissioned on behalf of a...
View ArticleIl Timone salutes Matthew Alderman
Journalist Marco Respinti, a Senior Fellow of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, has written a warm article on our architecture contributor Matthew Alderman, appearing June 19 on the web...
View ArticleCorpus Christi 2014
Qui manducat meam carnem et bibit meum sanguinem, * In me manet, et ego in eo. V. Non est alia natio tam grandis, quæ habeat deos appropinquantes sibi, sicut Deus noster adest nobis. In me manet. He...
View ArticleSaint Wandrille and a Brief Note on Catholic Art Deco
As some of our readers may remember from days past, Art Deco, particularly in its more obscure ecclesiastical manifestations, is an area of particular interest to me. It frequently cropped up in our...
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