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Candlemas 2015 Photopost
We have many great photos from this year's Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (OF)/Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (EF). Thank you to all those who submitted photos from their Masses and...
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Mutual Enrichment
Your translation’s divine,Your preaching melodious;Won’t you beMy Cyril and Methodius? This Valentine’s Day joke is here reproduced by the kind permission of the author, Fr Dominic Holtz, of the Order...
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Ash Wednesday Photopost Request
Our next photopost will be for Ash Wednesday; please send your photos (whether of the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form) to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org for inclusion. We are also always glad to...
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Music for the Eucharistic Sacrifice (Part 2)
Last week I offered some thoughts and questions on how we might evaluate liturgical music (and other aspects of our public worship) by considering the fact that, as Pope Pius XII taught, “the entire...
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Votive Mass of St Teilo Celebrated in the Extraordinary Form in the Historic...
Here are some photos, courtesy of a regular NLM reader, Mr David Woolf, of a Votive Mass of St Teilo that was celebrated on February 7th in the Extraordinary Form in the Church of St Teilo, located at...
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Ash Wednesday 2015
Let us amend for the better the sins we have committed in ignorance; lest suddenly seized by the day of death, we seek time for penance and be not able to find it. * Harken, o Lord, and have mercy, for...
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A New Examination of Conscience for Lent
As one who is generally skeptical of new things, I sympathize with any reader who might be wondering just what might be meant by a "new examination of conscience." Aren't the old ones just fine? Well,...
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Announcing the Apocalypse Art Prize
Artist Gloria Thomas has sent us the following information about the Apocalypse Art Prize, a competition with the book of the Apocalypse as its subject matter. The first rule of art is beauty.” So...
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Reminder: Vespers (EF), Chair of St. Peter
Readers living in or near New York City are reminded that the Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral (263 Mulberry Street, Manhattan) will celebrate its bicentennial with votive Vespers...
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Dominican Chants of the Passion for Holy Week Available
As Lent is now underway and preparations for Holy Week will soon be upon us, I want to remind readers that Dominican Liturgy Publications has made available in attractive hardback format the Dominican...
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Monteverdi Vespers in DC
Last November, Third Practice, directed by Brian Bartoldus, performed Father Claudio Monteverdi’s 1610 Vespro della Beata Vergine in a liturgical celebration of Solemn Vespers and Benediction in...
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Sacra Liturgia USA 2015 - Schedule of Events
The organizers of Sacra Liturgia USA 2015 are very pleased to announce the schedule of events for Sacra Liturgia USA 2015. The conference features beautiful liturgies, prominent speakers on topics of...
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Music for the Eucharistic Sacrifice (Part 3)
Part 1 and Part 2 of this series made use of the profound teaching of Pope Pius XII in Mediator Dei to help articulate how everything we do and make for the liturgy, especially music, must be in full...
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A Roman Pilgrim at the Station Churches 2015 (Part 1)
As she did last year, my friend Agnese is attending the Stational Masses organized by the Vicariate of Rome throughout Lent, and has once again very kindly allowed us to share her photographs of them....
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Harmonious Proportions in Furniture
Here is a video produced by the writers of the book By Hand and Eye, about using harmonious proportion in traditional furniture. Some readers may remember that I featured this book a year ago, to...
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A Roman Pilgrim at the Station Churches 2015 (Part 2)
First Sunday of Lent - Saint John in the Lateran The first two photographs show the cloister attached to the Pope’s cathedral; the third and fourth are of the procession that preceded the Mass.Monday...
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Ash Wednesday 2015 Photospost
Lent is upon us again. As usual, we have a selection of photos sent in by readers from around the world.Holy Innocents in NYCMount Saint Peter ChurchNew Kensington PAParish of the Holy FamilyDiocese of...
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An Icon of the Coptic New Martyrs of Libya
I am sure that all of our readers are aware of the recent massacre in Libya of a group of Egyptian Copts, who were killed for their faith by Islamic terrorists. The Patriarch of Alexandria, His...
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The Byzantine Liturgy in the Basilicas of Rome
Last week, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kiev-Halych, led an “ad limina” visit of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic hierarchy, of which he has been the head since March 2011. In the...
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The Theology of the Offertory - Series to Resume
Last year, between February and September, I posted a series of articles on “The Theology of the Offertory.” The series has been on hold for several months, partly because I encountered a major...
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