Event Notice: Corpus Christi With a New FSSP Priest in Campbellford, Ontario
On Sunday, June 7, the church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Campbellford, Ontario, will welcome Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP, for a Solemn High Mass on the external solemnity of Corpus Christi. Fr...
View ArticlePentecost 2015 Photopost
Thank you to all the readers who sent in their pictures from Pentecost. I’ll also remind you that another photopost will be created for the feast of Corpus Christi coming up next week. Evangelize...
View ArticleCardinal Burke celebrates St Philip's Day at the Oxford Oratory
Cardinal Burke celebrated a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the feast of St Philip Neri at the Oxford Oratory, in the 5th centenary of the Saint's birth. The pictures below appear courtesy of the Oxford...
View ArticleTrinity Sunday 2015
In illo tempore: Dixit Jesus discipulis suis: Data est mihi omnis potestas in caelo et in terra: euntes ergo docete omnes gentes, baptizantes eos in nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti,...
View ArticleCorpus Christi Photopost Request
Our next major photopost will be for Corpus Christi, this coming Thursday/Sunday, June 4/7; please send your photos (whether of the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form) to...
View ArticleCorpus Christi Thursday: Pontifical Mass at the Throne and Procession
This Thursday, at 7pm at the Bishop O'Connor Center in Madison, WI, Bishop Robert C. Morlino will be celebrating a pontifical Mass at the throne, followed by a Eucharistic procession. All those in the...
View ArticleGoing Up to Heaven with the Blessed Sacrament (Part I)
(Co-authored with Dr. Jeremy Holmes)St. Thomas AquinasThe mystery of the Eucharist is so unlike anything else we experience that we struggle to find language to describe it. A venerable tradition...
View ArticleMasses of Thanksgiving in the Dominican and Extraordinary Form Roman Rites,...
Fr. Gabriel with Archbishop CordileoneI have great joy inform our readers that Brother Gabriel Mosher, O.P., of the Western Dominican Province, who regulary served as a deacon in Dominican Rite Masses...
View ArticleA New Home for the TLM in Philadelphia
The Traditional Mass Community in Philadelphia, which hitherto has been using Holy Trinity parish in Center City, will be relocating to St. Edmund church in South Philadelphia beginning Sunday, June...
View ArticleEF Confirmations in Rome on Trinity Sunday
On Trinity Sunday, His Excellency François Bacqué, Titular Archbishop of Gradisca and Apostolic Nuncio, celebrated Confirmations at the F.S.S.P.’s Roman parish, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini,...
View ArticlePope Francis to Card. Sarah : “Continue the Good Work in the Liturgy Begun by...
The facebook page of the Sacra Liturgia Conference, now underway in New York City, is live-blogging the conference, and has posted a message sent to it by His Eminence Robert Card. Sarah, Prefect of...
View ArticleAn Ivory Situla from the Basilica of St Ambrose in Milan
From the website of the Museum of the Cathedral of Milan:This carved ivory bucket for holy water, or “situla”, was commissioned by Gotofredo, Archbishop of Milan, for the blessing of the Emperor Otto...
View ArticleDominican Rite Sung Mass of Thanksgiving, Berkeley CA
On June 3, 2015, the newly-ordained Fr. Gabriel Thomas Mosher, O.P. celebrated a Missa Cantata in the Dominican Rite, Votive Mass of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at the Carmel of the Holy Family in...
View ArticleOrdinations and First Masses in the Dominican Central Province
From the central Province of the Dominican Friars come these photos of the recent ordination of three priests, and the first Masses of two of them, Fr James Dominic Rooney and Fr Raymond-Marie Stephen...
View ArticleCorpus Christi 2015
Unus panis, et unum corpus multi sumus, * omnes qui de uno pane, uno calice participamus. V. Parasti in dulcedine tua pauperi, Deus, qui habitare facis unanimes in domo. Omnes qui. Gloria Patri, Omnes...
View ArticleGoing Up to Heaven with the Blessed Sacrament (Part II)
(Co-authored with Dr. Jeremy Holmes)In the first part, we looked at how the Roman Canon and St. Thomas alike seem to bear out the claim that the Eucharist is more our being brought to God than God...
View ArticleCorpus Christi: Historical Images from Ireland and Milan
My thanks to a reader for sending me notice of the following video from the youtube channel of British Pathé, showing a Corpus Christi procession held in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, in 1941.From the...
View ArticleTwo Corpus Christi Processions in Central London
This afternoon there were two Corpus Christi Processions in central London. The first took place at the London Oratory with Solemn Benediction at the Stational Altar in the courtyard beside the church...
View ArticleClassics of the Liturgical Movement: Romano Guardini (1)
Last year, I started an open-ended series, which I introduced with these words:I have decided to start a new series here, introducing readers to older and newer authors who have a valid claim to be...
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