Is the Current Communion Fast Really Enough?
A few months ago I walked into my parish, and I was a little tired. I had spent a few hours in the middle of the night praying at our local abortion clinic for an end to abortion, as a part of our...
View ArticleMusic for the Eucharistic Sacrifice (Part 1)
The most common argument I’ve heard over the years for why we should allow Christian “pop” music in Church is the consequentialist or utilitarian argument: “Look how well it works. It gets people to...
View ArticleSome Notes on the Suppression of Septuagesima, by Amy Welborn
We are just about half-way through the brief but liturgically rich period of Septuagesima; today I happened to stumble across an excellent series of considerations of the season by Amy Welborn on her...
View ArticleSnow Drops for the Feast of the Presentation
Snow drops are the flower for the Feast of the Presentation, so here are some photos. They were snapped on the feast day, February 2nd, and that is why they appear a little later - it took me a few...
View ArticleFota VIII Conference Speakers Announced
St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce a provisional list of speakers and topics for the Fota VIII International Liturgy Conference to be held in Cork, Ireland, July 4-6,...
View ArticleA Visit to the Monastery of Camaldoli
As a follow-up to my recent piece on the feast of St Romuald, our own Nicola de’ Grandi sent me some photos he took during a recent visit to the Monastery and Hermitage of Camaldoli, the mother house...
View ArticleVotive Vespers (EF), Chair of St. Peter
Readers living in or near New York City may be interested to know that the Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral (263 Mulberry Street, Manhattan) will celebrate its bicentennial with votive Vespers...
View ArticleMusic from the Golden Age of Spain
San Lorenzo de El EscorialAs a chorister at Westminster Cathedral during the 1980s, I was fortunate enough to be involved in a number of recordings of some of the most wonderful liturgical music in the...
View ArticleMusic for the Eucharistic Sacrifice (Part 1)
The most common argument I’ve heard over the years for why we should allow Christian “pop” music in Church is the consequentialist or utilitarian argument: “Look how well it works. It gets people to...
View ArticleSome Notes on the Suppression of Septuagesima, by Amy Welborn
We are just about half-way through the brief but liturgically rich period of Septuagesima; today I happened to stumble across an excellent series of considerations of the season by Amy Welborn on her...
View ArticleSnow Drops for the Feast of the Presentation
Snow drops are the flower for the Feast of the Presentation, so here are some photos. They were snapped on the feast day, February 2nd, and that is why they appear a little later - it took me a few...
View ArticleFota VIII Conference Speakers Announced
St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce a provisional list of speakers and topics for the Fota VIII International Liturgy Conference to be held in Cork, Ireland, July 4-6,...
View ArticleA Visit to the Monastery of Camaldoli
As a follow-up to my recent piece on the feast of St Romuald, our own Nicola de’ Grandi sent me some photos he took during a recent visit to the Monastery and Hermitage of Camaldoli, the mother house...
View ArticleVotive Vespers (EF), Chair of St. Peter
Readers living in or near New York City may be interested to know that the Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral (263 Mulberry Street, Manhattan) will celebrate its bicentennial with votive Vespers...
View ArticleMusic from the Golden Age of Spain
San Lorenzo de El EscorialAs a chorister at Westminster Cathedral during the 1980s, I was fortunate enough to be involved in a number of recordings of some of the most wonderful liturgical music in the...
View ArticleBishop Schneider To Visit Washington D.C. for Lecture and Mass This Weekend
We have received word of the following event from the Paulus Institute and Juventutem D.C.The Paulus Institute for the Propagation of the Sacred Liturgy is very pleased to announced that Bishop...
View ArticlePictures of the Recent Missa Cantata at Princeton University Chapel
On February 3rd, the feast of St Blaise, Fr Carlos Hamel celebrated the first public traditional Latin Mass at the Princeton University Chapel. In attendance were Fr Bryan Page, the University...
View ArticleJuventutem NYC Inaugural Event
On Saturday, January 31, Juventutem New York held its inaugural Mass and talk at the Church of the Holy Innocents on W 37th St. The Missa Cantata was celebrated by Juventutem NY's chaplain and new...
View Article6-Week Summer Latin Course
The Philology Institute in Wilmore, Kentucky will offer an intensive, six-week summer course in Latin from June 15 to July 24, 2015. The cost of the course is $2500 (for the equivalent of 2 or more...
View ArticleSacra Liturgia Summer School, July 4-19, 2015
This coming July, Sacra Liturgia will once again hold a two week (three Sunday) English-language liturgical summer school, following on from the international conference Sacra Liturgia 2013 and the...
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