Society for Catholic Liturgy - October in NYC - Call for Proposals
The Liturgy: It is Right and JustOctober 1-3, 2015New York CityKeynote speaker: Archbishop Salvatore J. CordileoneThe Society for Catholic Liturgy will celebrate its twentieth anniversary at the...
View Article“Advertising” the Lectionary - An Insight into its Reform
Dom Adrian Nocent, O.S.B. (1913-96), was a liturgist and monk of Maredsous Abbey in Belgium. He was drafted as an additional member into Coetus XI, the group of the Consilium responsible for the reform...
View ArticleCorpus Christi at Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini
This year’s coverage of the Corpus Christi Mass and procession at the FSSP’s Roman parish comes from our good friend Agnese, who also provides the photographs of the stational processions and Masses in...
View ArticleAbp. Sample to Participate in 2016 Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage to Rome
From the Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum, organizers of the annual Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage to Rome:In 2016, the fifth pilgrimage of the Populus Summorum Pontificum to the Tomb of the...
View Article“Golden Gloves” Chaplain Floors 3 Berlin Thieves - Historical Headline from 1947
A few days ago I posted a photograph of Mass celebrated on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. A reader then sent me this scan from the June 28, 1947, issue of the American military newspaper Star and...
View ArticleWho’s Afraid of Pomp and Splendor?
Obviously, not the zealous Catholics who participated in the Sacra Liturgia 2015 conference and its liturgies. According to some left-leaning news reports, the conference was an esoteric gathering of a...
View Article“Mediator Dei? Never heard of it!” Sacrosanctum Concilium's Disappearing...
[T]he idea that the council was a continuation of work already begun was obscured by numerous commentaries that treated SC as a departure from the past, the beginning of a “new” liturgy for the “new”...
View ArticleCorpus Christ 2015 - First Photopost
Feliciter! As was also the case last year, we received a very large number of submissions of your Corpus Christi celebrations, enough for a few photoposts. Thank you very much for sending them in; they...
View ArticleCorpus Christi 2015 - Second Photopost
As always, many thanks to our readers who sent in these photographs! (There are six other sets of photographs below the break, including some from Paris sent in by our own Henri de Villiers.)Madison,...
View ArticleDionysius Alive and Well: On Hierarchical Incensation
At the Solemn Vespers held on the opening day of the Sacra Liturgia conference, June 1, 2015, I witnessed a memorable sign of the true nature of the Church and of the cosmos: the elaborate incensation...
View ArticleThe Hermeneutic of Continuity in Sacred Art - A Lecture by Clemens Fuchs in...
Clemens Fuchs, the Austrian artist who works in the baroque tradition, will be giving a lecture at the Catholic Center at New York University, 238 Thompson Street, New York City, on June 27th at 6pm.I...
View ArticleA Mass of Thanksgiving for Ordination, Sunday June 21, in Louisville, Kentucky
From the local Juventutem chapter: Fr Jason Stone will celebrate an EF Mass at the Church of St Martin of Tours in Lousiville, Kentucky, this coming Sunday, in thanksgiving for his recent ordination to...
View ArticleRecent Masses of Thanksgiving in the San Francisco Bay Area
The newly-ordained Fr. Gabriel Thomas Mosher, O.P., a priest of the Western Dominican Province, celebrated three Masses of Thanksgiving around the Bay Area over the past few days. Chanting the Gospel,...
View ArticleRegular Weekly TLM Announced for the Diocese of Nashville, TN
Beginning on August 9, a regular celebration of the Mass according to the Missal of St John XXIII will be held every Sunday at 8:30 a.m., at the Church of the Assumption in Nashville, Tennessee,...
View ArticleCorpus Christi 2015 - Third Photopost, from Sacra Liturgia in New York
Once again, we are grateful to Mr Arrys Ortanez for sharing some of his great photographs with us, this time from the celebration of Corpus Christi as part of the recent Sacra Liturgia conference in...
View ArticleA Show in Florence on the Oldest Codex of the Vulgate
From June 29 until October 3, the Laurentian Library in Florence will have a special show on one of its most important manuscripts, the Codex Amiatinus, the oldest complete text of St Jerome’s...
View ArticleBook Review: Michael Foley's Drinking with the Saints
Michael P. Foley. Drinking with the Saints: The Sinner's Guide to a Holy Happy Hour. Washington, DC: Regnery History, 2015. Hardback. xx + 487 pp. List: $26.99. Available at Amazon.com. Also available...
View ArticleFirst Solemn Mass of Fr. David Franco, FSSP – St Kevin’s, Warwick, R.I.
On Thursday, June 11 (Feast of St. Barnabas), newly ordained Father David Franco, FSSP, celebrated his first Solemn Mass at St. Kevin’s Church in Warwick, Rhode Island (his home parish). These photos...
View ArticlePhotopost Follow-Up
As a follow-up to various photoposts, here are some photographs covering some of the recent liturgical seasons and events: Ascension, Corpus Christi and Sacred Heart, along with Confirmations and...
View ArticleThe CMAA Comes to Pittsburgh
The CMAA, the Church Music Association of America, will invade Duquesne University and Saint Paul Cathedral, Pittsburgh, PA, for the next two weeks. A Chant Intensive will be held June 23rd through...
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