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The Ordinariate: A Gift to be Shared from Benedict XVI - An Upcoming Talk in...
On August 5th, at 7:30 PM, Holy Rosary Church in Portland, Oregon, 375 NE Clackamas St., (known to many for its use of the Dominican Rite for important feasts), will be hosting a Dominican Forum talk...
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Conforming Our Secular Selves to Sacred Signs
In the movie Into Great Silence there is a great moment when a group of monks are talking and one of them mentions that another monastery has dropped a bunch of its practices in order to adapt to the...
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A 21st Century Knight, a Model of Chivalry
As NLM readers will know, my friend Stratford Caldecott died very recently of cancer. I heard the news at a time that I was was reading his newly published book, Not as the World Gives: the Way of...
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Latin Mass Society Day of Recollection at St Edmund's College, Ware, England
Joseph Shaw of the Latin Mass Society has posted to his flickr account some great photographs from a day of Eucharistic Recollection held at St Edmund’s College in Ware, Hertfordshire, England, led by...
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The Theology of the Offertory - Part 7.2 - The Missals of the Monastic Orders
The Cistercians, like the Premonstratensians, changed their Offertory in the middle of the 17th century, abandoning the traditional form of their Use and replacing it with that of the Missal of St Pius...
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Juventutem Social in St. Louis - August 4
Young people! Join Juventutem on August 4th for a solemn Mass (EF, of course) and social following. A reader provides all the details below. This is a bit closer to me than most of their events, though...
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Mater Ecclesiae's 14th Annual Assumption Mass
Mater Ecclesiae Roman Catholic Church, Berlin, NJ, Diocese of Camden, welcomes you to attend the 14th Annual Assumption Mass. The Mass, in the Extraordinary Form, will take place on Friday, August 15,...
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The CDW Reins in the Sign of Peace
Many years ago, a friend of mine was studying at a prominent Catholic university, where every dorm has its own chapel, and every chapel has at least one Mass a day. Explaining why he never attended...
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Repost and Reminder - August 1st Day of Prayer, Adoration, and Solidarity for...
I am reposting this notice which Dr Kwasniewski put up several days ago, as a reminder of the FSSP’s initiative to keep today, August 1st, as a day or prayer especially for persecuted Christians in the...
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NLM's 9th Anniversary - Meet Some of Our New Writers
Today marks the ninth anniversary of the beginning of this website; I would like to take this occasion to thank our editor Jeffrey Tucker, our founder Shawn Tribe, and all of our writers and guest...
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Photos of the Vigil for Christians in Iraq held at the DC Oratory in...
Last Monday at St Thomas the Apostle, Washington DC, there was a Prayer Vigil for persecuted Christians in Iraq. Holy Mass was followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament culminating in Benediction...
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St Alphonsus on the Need for Reverence in the Liturgy
When he was appointed bishop of the small town of St Agata dei Goti in 1762, St Alphonsus de’ Liguori (OF feast day August 1, EF August 2) began his episcopal ministry by sending missioners out to...
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Quarant'ore at St Martin of Tours, St Louis MO
Forty Hours Devotion will be held at St Martin of Tours, St Louis, Missouri on 14, 15 & 16 August. The schedule will be as follows:Thursday, August 14, 2014:8:00 a.m. – Mass, followed by...
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A reminder: Gregorian Institute of Canada colloquium August 22-23
Various publications in the past few years attest to a growing interest in the office of Compline, including Kenneth Peterson’s Prayer as Night Falls: Experiencing Compline and The Song of Prayer: A...
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Transcending Oppositions: Liturgy as the Synthesis of Faith and Reason
Philipp Rosemann argues that the very incompleteness of the Summa theologiae, which Saint Thomas could not bring himself to complete at the end of his life, should be taken as a sign, a gesture on the...
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Diploma in the New Evangelisation launched by the School of the Annunciation,...
Consideration of the liturgy and beauty is central to evangelization. Visual art in particular has a role to play - it teaches and informs us through its content, it's beauty helps to direct and deepen...
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Liturgical Notes on the Feast of Saint Dominic
Saint Dominic died on the evening of August 6, 1221, and was canonized in 1234 by Pope Gregory IX (1227-41) who had known him personally and declared that he no more doubted his sanctity than he did...
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Fighting Desecration with Prayer
Today is the feast of the Transfiguration. In the each of the Synoptic Gospels, this event is followed by the account of a father whose child is possessed by a devil; he had already brought the child...
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A First Mass and Some New Vestments in the Diocese of Charlotte, NC
We are very pleased to offer our congratulations to Fr. Noah Carter, who was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 28th. The following day, the feast of Ss....
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Transfiguration of the Lord: Blessing of the Grapes
Four years ago, there was a post on NLM about the Byzantine tradition of blessing grapes on the feast of the Transfiguration, and it included the text for the blessing. Yesterday, Fr. Z had a post...
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