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The Theology of the Offertory - Part 7.5 - The Use of Toledo
The Iberian peninsula was the last part of Western Europe to adopt the Roman Rite; a detailed history of how its ancient Mozarabic liturgy was gradually replaced by the Roman, starting in the later...
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A Roman Pilgrim at the Station Churches 2015 (Part 3)
Ember Wednesday in the First Week of Lent - Station at Saint Mary MajorI have written previously about the Station Churches on the Ember Days of Lent, and their relationship to the Scriptural readings...
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Cantantibus Organis 2015-16
Once again we are delighted to announce the annual Cantantibus Organis course to be held at the Abbey of St Cecilia in Rome. The "Cantantibus Organis" music school was founded to offer training in ars...
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A Symposium on the Architect Patrick Charles Keely
Holy Innocents New York, designed by KeelyOn Friday, March 20, 2015, The Monuments Conservancy will present its 25th Annual Symposium at the New York Marriott East Side, 525 Lexington Avenue, 8:30 a.m....
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Ex ore infantium: Children and the Traditional Latin Mass
A subject that deserves much more attention than it has received (at least, so far as I know) is how children relate to the traditional Latin Mass. One thing seems very clear to me from my experience...
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Start an Alpha and Omega Group!
Meet for Vespers and Compline; plus a meal and conversation...and if you have a Dominican from the Western Province to hand all the better! I remember that the Anglican Church in England designated the...
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Dominican Rite Solemn Mass of St. Thomas Aquinas, March 7, 2015, SF Bay Area
The Elevation at Dominican Solemn MassI am pleased to announce that this month the First Saturday Devotion Mass at Saint Albert the Great Priory in Oakland CA will be a Solemn High Mass of St. Thomas...
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Fostering Young Vocations (Part 3)
Speaking of children and the Traditional Latin Mass...The reader who sent us this picture of himself, taken in the late 1950s, tells me that his mom also made him a Lenten set in violet.
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The Theology of the Offertory - Part 7.6 - Two Prayers from the 1551 Missal...
The prayers of the Offertory emerged as a feature of the Roman Rite in the post-Carolingian period, which is to say, the middle to late decades of the 9th century. The most widely used among them,...
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A Roman Pilgrim at the Station Churches 2015 (Part 4)
The Second Sunday of Lent - Santa Maria in DomnicaOver the 16th century, this church became the titular church of four different Cardinals of the Medici family, the ruling family of Florence, including...
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Program for the Fourth "Summorum Pontificum" Conference in Rome.
The Italian organizations “Amicizia Sacerdotale Summorum Pontificum” and “Giovani e Tradizione”have announced the program of their Fourth Conference on the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, to be held...
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A Few Words on the Roman Stational Processions
In response to a recent question from a reader, our pilgrim-on-the-scene Agnese has sent me some information about the processions held before the Lenten stational Masses at the Roman basilicas, a...
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Help the FSSP Expand into Mexico
We have received the following information from Fr Daniel Heenan of the Fraternity of St Peter, concerning their plans to open a new house of formation in Guadalajara, Mexico. I would like to take this...
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Dominican Rite Masses: Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas (Mar. 7), Salt Lake City...
A note to our readers that the Western Dominicans of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, will celebrate the traditional feast of St Thomas Aquinas with a Dominican Rite Mass at 9:30 a.m. For more...
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Dom Alcuin Reid on the 50th Anniversary of Mass in the Vernacular
Once again, we are very grateful indeed to Dom Alcuin Reid for sharing his work with our readers. He writes here about the 50th anniversary of the first Mass celebrated by a Pope in the vernacular, and...
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Two Different Treasure Chests
The response to my earlier article, “How the Traditional Latin Mass Fosters More Active Participation than the Ordinary Form,” was overwhelming, in a way that took me by surprise. It was viewed by a...
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The Feast of the Forty Martyrs
The Forty Martyrs were a group of soldiers from the Roman Twelfth Legion, who died for the Faith at Sebaste in Armenia in the year 320. This is seven years after the Edict of Milan and the Peace of the...
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Laetare Sunday Solemn Vespers (Extraordinary Form) in Virginia
Join the Institute of Catholic Culture for Laetare Sunday Solemn Vespers!For their annual Laetare Sunday Vespers, they welcome newly ordained Rev. Daniel Heenan, FSSP and the choir Chorus Sine Nomine....
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A Roman Pilgrim at the Station Churches 2015 (Part 5)
I apologize for the delay in posting these, but I thought it was important to give Dom Alcuin’s recent piece some extra time as our top story. We’ll get caught up with Agnese’s visits to the Station...
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Event Notice: Feast of St Joseph in the Cathedral of Worcester, Mass.
On the Solemnity of St. Joseph, Thursday, March 19, a Pontifical Mass in the Ordinary Form will be celebrated in Latin, ad orientem, by the Most Rev. Robert McManus, Bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts....
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