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Event Notice: Eucharistic Procession on the Virginia Beach Boardwalk This Sunday
This Sunday, October 12th, Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Virgina Beach, Virginia, will hold a its third annual Eucharistic Procession on the ocean boardwalk, with the particular intention of...
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Christ on the Flat Screen: The Renovation of the Crystal Cathedral, Orange,...
Some time ago, as part of the media buzz surrounding the purchase of the Crystal Cathedral, the Catholic Diocese of Orange opened the floor to online suggestions as to what the new church should be...
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Lead Kindly Light
Today, the Feast Day of Blessed John Henry Newman, is a fitting day to announce Lead Kindly Light, a beautiful new DVD produced by St Anthony Communications. Presented by Fr Marcus Holden and Fr...
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The Anniversary of the Death of Pope Pius XII
From the archives of British Pathé, a remarkable tribute to Pope Pius XII at the time of his death (October 9, 1958), accompanied with some rare and beautiful footage of the Papal Mass.“Cardinal...
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Lecture on Church Architecture since Vatican II
The School of Canon Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, has announced that this year's Frederick R. McManus Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Duncan Stroik on the...
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Liturgical Notes on the Maternity of the Virgin Mary
The traditional observance of October as the month of the Holy Rosary begins, of course, with the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, and the institution of the feast of the Holy Rosary, also called the feast...
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Fortune Favors the Brave
The reader of Annibale Bugnini’s Memoirs comes upon a passage early on concerning a questionnaire sent around in 1948 to “almost a hundred liturgical experts in all parts of the world” by the editors...
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Photos of a Italian Sculpture of the Mother of God and Our Lord as a Child by...
Thanks to reader Ciro Lamonte in Italy for bringing to our notice the sculpture of Cody Swanson. I know little of him, but it seems from his commissions he is well known to others and I am guessing...
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The Order for a Synod, from the 1595 Pontifical of Clement VIII (First Day)
It occurred to me that, with the Extraordinary Synod currently going on, and making headlines almost on an hourly basis, our readers might find interesting the traditional order for holding a synod,...
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Pontifical Requiem Mass in Madison - November 3
On November 3rd, Bishop Robert Morlino will be celebrating a Pontifical Requiem for All Souls Day at 7pm at the Bishop O'Connor Center in Madison, WI. Victoria's Requiem a4 will be sung. I hope those...
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Monks of Norcia 2015 Calendar
I recently received in the mail a copy of the new calendar of the Monks of Norcia. This 2015 edition is just as magnificent as last year's. Most readers of NLM probably need no introduction to these...
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The Order for a Synod, from the 1595 Pontifical of Clement VIII (Second Day)
The second day of the synod begins with the same ceremony as the first, although it is not specifically stated in the rubrics that the Mass of the day is to be the Mass of the Holy Spirit. When this is...
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RIP Jacques and Simone Wach, Parents of the Prior General of the ICK
Via the blogs Notions Romaines and Sancta Trinitas Unus Deus, I learned today that the parents of Msgr. Gilles Wach, Prior General of the Institute of Christ the King, both passed away very recently,...
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Program of Events for "Populus Summorum Pontificum" Next Weekend in Rome and...
The Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage will take place next weekend in Rome and Norcia, with a large number of liturgical events scheduled from October 23-26. A flyer with all the information in...
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“Fearless Heralds of the Truth” - The Third Day of a Synod, from the 1595...
The third day of the synod begins as the first two. After Mass, a faldstool is placed before the altar, and the bishop, in cope and precious miter, accompanied by deacon and subdeacon, kneels before...
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The Feast of St Luke the Evangelist
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a narration of the things that have been accomplished among us, according as they have delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were...
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Photopost: Reader Photographs of Recent Events
We are always very glad to receive photographs of your liturgical events, apart from those which we specifically request for major feasts, be they OF, EF, or Eastern Rite. Here are some from three...
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A Marian Pilgrimage in Hungary
On October 11th, His Excellency Lajos Varga, auxiliary bishop of the diocese of Vác in Hungary, celebrated a Pontifical High Mass for the 5th time at Hungary’s Franciscan-run national Marian shrine,...
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Classics of the Liturgical Movement: The Soul of the Apostolate
One of my all-time favorite spiritual books is The Soul of the Apostolate by Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, O.C.S.O. It was St. Pius X’s bedside reading, which already tells you a lot about the quality of...
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