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Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise
Back in 2008, the NLM published this essay by Fr Aidan Nichols OP on the "Archi-Liturgical Culture Wars". Readers of the NLM may thus be interested to learn that this essay has now been published as...
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NLM Reprint: Some Notes on the Origins and Character of Pre-Lent...
When you have been running for a number of years as NLM has, eventually one comes to the conclusion that there is not necessarily always a need to 'reinvent the wheel' and because of that, I thought it...
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Is the Job Market Improving for Catholic Musicians?
Church Music Transgressed is a book on the Catholic music scene published in 1977. It is by Msgr. Francis P. Schmitt, former director of the Boys Town Choir, one-time editor of Sacred Music, major...
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Reflections on Singing a Polyphonic Kyrie During Lent
by Jeff Ostrowski, President of Corpus Christi Watershed The following quote has been attributed to St. Augustine: "The only thing you can take with you to Heaven is music." Whether St. Augustine spoke...
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A Liturgical Curiosity from Monte Cassino
In the traditional Pontifical liturgy, the bishop possesses three different sorts of mitre, used on various occasions during the year and at different moments in the liturgy--the simple white mitre...
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NLM Reprint: The Station Churches of Septuagesima
Continuing (and probably concluding) our Septuagesima reprints is the following article, published in 2010, on the station churches of Septuagesimatide * * * The institution of the three Sundays before...
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Manifestations of Lived Continuity: A.D 1000 to A.D. 2012
I quite enjoyed this post from the Transalpine Redemptorists recently, which looks at the antiquity of one of the proper chants for Septuagesima Sunday (we are referring to the liturgical books of the...
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Book Notice For German Readers: Helmut Hoping, Mein Leib Für Euch Gegeben
Dr. Helmut Hoping is a professor of Dogmatics and Liturgical Theology at the University of Freiburg in Germany. I have had the pleasure to meet him back in 2008 at a liturgical conference organized by...
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St Scholastica at Quarr Abbey
Today is the feast of St Scholastica, who is depicted here in a painted retable in the crypt of Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight. The retable shows influences of the School of Beuron, and the saint is...
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Interpreting the Content of Rembrandt's Holy Family
This short posting, which focusses on the symbolic content in a painting is written by Dr Caroline Farey of the Maryvale Institute. She and I work as a double team, teaching in July at the residential...
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Simple English Propers, 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Simple English Propers, which are being used in so many seminaries now that I can no longer keep up.
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Candlemas at Holy Rosary in Portland OR: Dominican Rite
Fr. Vincent Kelber, O.P., parochial vicar of Holy Rosary Church, Portland OR, sends this report on the celebration of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin and Blessing of Candles in the Dominican...
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Book Notice: Holy Week Gregorian Chants
Many have already heard, from here and otherwise, about the reprinting of the Liber Brevior by Preserving Christian Publications -- which provided a much more economical way for most communities to...
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The Ecclesiastical Work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), the virtual inventor of Glasgow Art Nouveau, is principally known for his domestic architecture and furnishing. He nonetheless made several forays into public...
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Usus Antiquior in Seville
UUna Voce Sevilla informs NLM that Septuagesima Sunday saw the advent of a new celebration of the usus antiquior in Seville (Spain) at the church of San Jorge (Santa Caridad). The Mass is celebrated...
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"Ecclesiastical Treasures Saved" - Pugin and Recusant Items Kept in Catholic...
Some of you may have been following this story on British blogs, in particular Fr. Ray Blake's. I see this welcome news accouncement came out today from the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and...
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St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow
The See of Glasgow traces its roots to St Kentigern, who died c.614, but it wasn't until 1175 that Pope Alexander III granted the See of Glasgow the title of 'filia specialis Romanæ ecclesiæ',...
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February 14: St. Valentine
Relics of St. Valentine in the church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome, decorated for February 14th (Photo by Br. Lawrence Lew, O.P.) At Rome, on the Via Flaminia, the birthday of St. Valentine,...
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Mass of Installation of the First Ordinary of the Ordinariate in the USA
By way of Fr. Dwight Longenecker, news of the installation of Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson, the first ordinary of the (Anglican) Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter in the United States. The Mass of...
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Bishop Athanasius Schneider Ordains New IBP Priest
By way of Le Forum Catholique comes news of an ordination of a new priest for the Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP) in Courtalain, Fr. Sergiusz Orzeszko of Poland. The Mass of ordination was...
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