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The Monastery of the Assumption in Diessen, Germany
The subject of our recent quiz is the baptistery of the Marienmuenster in Diessen, Bavaria, a remarkable Baroque church dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It was built for a community of...
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The Feast of St Anthony the Abbot
St Athanasius of Alexandria is best known as the great champion of the Nicene Faith, for which he was exiled five times over the course of an episcopate of 45 years (328-373); for his witness to the...
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An Antique Monstrance from the Duomo of Milan
The website of the Milan Cathedral Museum has just posted this photograph of a beautiful 15th-century monstrance.The Italian version of the article is titled “Un antico intreccio di preziosità”, which...
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Announcing a New Children’s Book: The Life of Saint Benedict
As father of a family and an oblate of the Benedictine monastery of Norcia, I am truly delighted to be able to announce to NLM readers the publication of a new children’s book on the life of St....
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The Pope Creates a New Sui Juris Church in Eritrea
It was announced yesterday on the Bulletin of the Holy See that the Holy Father has erected the Eritrean Catholic Church to sui juris status as a Metropolitan Church, separating its territory from that...
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Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage to Rome, October 22-25, 2015
From the Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum: The fourth annual pilgrimage to Rome for supporters of Summorum Pontificum will take place from Thursday, October 22nd through Sunday, October 25th...
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A New Setting for the Salve Regina
My last article about the music of Paul Jernberg and Roman Hurko provoked such a positive response I thought that readers might enjoy listening to this recording and video of Paul Jernberg’s sublime...
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The Dedication of a New Church in Aiken, SC, February 2, 2015
On February 2nd, the feast of Candlemas, His Excellency Robert Guglielmone, Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina, will dedicate the church of St Mary, Help of Christians, in the city of Aiken. The...
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The Blessing of the Lambs on the Feast of St Agnes
Over the course of Lent last year, I did a series of twelve posts of photographs from the Station Churches, taken by a Roman friend, Agnese Bazzucchi. Agnese celebrated her name-day today (tanti...
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An Upcoming Missa Cantata at Princeton University
On February 3rd, the Princeton University Chapel will have a Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite at 9 p.m., sponsored by the Aquinas Institute. The Mass will celebrated by Fr....
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Earliest Known Piece of Polyphonic Music Discovered
This news dates back over a month, but was just brought to my attention today. The website of the University of Cambridge published a report last December on the discovery of a manuscript fragment...
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A Sermon by Cardinal Burke: On the Marriage of the Virgin Mary with St Joseph
January 23rd is the traditional day of the feast called “The Espousal of the Virgin Mary with St Joseph.” Although never on the general Calendar, it was kept by many religious orders, especially those...
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Vintage Missa Solemnis Videos from England
A reader recently send in some videos of fascinating historical interest from Ushaw College in England. I found them interesting, and I hope you do as well. In the first video, Mass begins around the 8...
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How You Can Help - Scholarship Fund for Seminarians and Religious to Sacra...
Are you interested in improving the liturgy in your diocese or parish but unable to come to Sacra Liturgia USA 2015 this June?Please consider donating to the scholarship fund for seminarians and...
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Fr Richard McBrien RIP
I have just seen a report that Fr Richard McBrien has died after a lengthy illness. (Also here, at the website of Notre Dame University, where he formerly taught.) Fr McBrien was a prominent presence...
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Snow Altars in the Grand Tetons
Each January, Wyoming Catholic College freshmen spend a week in the vicinity of the Grand Teton mountains near Jackson, learning how to live in the wintry outdoors, cross-country skiing with backpacks,...
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The Feast of St John Chrysostom, and Mozart’s Birthday
Although the Christian names most commonly used in reference to Mozart are “Wolfgang Amadeus”, he was actually baptized as “Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart.” The first two of these...
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Anthony Visco's Sacred Art Summer School in Florence, June 22nd to July 10th
In a juxtaposition between old and new, I heard of Anthony Visco’s summer school in Florence when I was invited to like the page on Facebook. So, via blog posting, I happily pass on the information to...
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“Balance Instead of Harmony” : A Guest Article by Paweł Milcarek on the...
We are very pleased to offer to our readers this excellent article by Paweł Milcarek, an account of some important aspects of the Liturgical Reform before Vatican II. Dr. Milcarek is a Polish...
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Candlemas Photopost Request
Our next major photopost will be for the feast of Candlemas; please send your photos (whether of the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form) to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org for inclusion. We are also...
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