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Drinking with the Saints : Some Excerpts from Dr Michael Foley’s New Book
Peter Kwasniewski just published a review here on NLM of Dr Michael Foley’s new book Drinking with the Saints: The Sinner’s Guide to a Holy Happy Hour (Regnery, 2015). Prof. Foley was kind enough to...
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NYC Procession was 'Religious Experience'
The term, "religious experience" is an oft-used expression in some quarters of our society, usually reserved for some performance or event that is moving to a person or group. It might be an...
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The Feast of St Aloysius Gonzaga in Rome
Each year on June 21st, the Jesuit church of St Ignatius in Rome opens up to the public the rooms where St Aloysius Gonzaga lived and studied while he was at the Roman College. (These rooms can be...
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Classics of the Liturgical Movement: Romano Guardini (2)
Two weeks ago we saw how masterfully Guardini spoke of the objectivity, preeminence, and emotional restraint of the sacred liturgy as the Church’s public prayer, and how tradition has bestowed on it a...
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Chance for NLM Readers to Get Free Scott Hahn Book, and Up to 50% Off Emmaus...
I have just been told about the news that Scott Hahn’s St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology has merged with Emmaus Road Publishing. They are also partnering with Lighthouse Catholic Media, whom many...
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“Historian Uses Lasers to Unlock Mysteries of Gothic Cathedrals” : An...
The website of National Geographic has published just today an article about how an historian of Gothic art and architecture, Vassar College’s Professor Andrew Tallon, is applying laser technology to...
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Liturgical Notes on the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (Reprint)
This was the first in my occasional series of Liturgical Notes for major feasts. It is here reprinted with some adjustments to the original version; I have also added a video with a recording of the...
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Restoration Completed on “The Sistine Chapel of Milan”
Italian tour books and journalists will often call a church which is particularly impressive for its artworks “the Sistine Chapel of ” such-and-such a place, period or artist. The Scuola di San Rocco...
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Book Notice: The Definitive Study of Concelebration
Joseph de Sainte-Marie, OCD. The Holy Eucharist—The World’s Salvation. Studies on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, its Celebration, and its Concelebration. With a Foreword by Dom Alcuin Reid, OSB....
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The Feast of Ss John and Paul, Martyrs
The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Saints John and Paul, as recounted in the pre-Tridentine Breviary according to the Use of the Roman Curia. At Rome, (the passion) of John and Paul, brothers… when the...
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Concelebration Tomorrow - From Dom Alcuin Reid’s Foreword to “The Holy...
Peter Kwasniewski just published a notice and review of “The Holy Eucharist—The World’s Salvation. Studies on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, its Celebration, and its Concelebration,” by Fr. Joseph de...
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The Feast of Ss Peter and Paul 2015
At that time: Jesus saith to Simon Peter: Simon son of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith to him: Yea, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He saith to him: Feed my lambs. He saith to him...
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Two Books for Children — One New and One Classic Reprint
M. Cristina Borges. Of Bells and Cells. Illustrated by Michaela Harrison. N.p.: St. Bonosa Books, 2014. 44 pp., paper. List: $13.50. Purchase at Amazon.com.Maria Montessori. The Mass Explained to...
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The Protomartyrs of the Church of Rome
At Rome, the commemoration of very many holy martyrs, who were falsely accused by the Emperor Nero, to turn away from himself the hatred incurred by having set the city on fire, and were ordered by him...
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A First Mass in Melbourne, Australia
On Saturday, June 27, in Melbourne, Australia, Rev Fr Francis Denton was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Melbourne in the local Cathedral of St Patrick’s. On Monday, Fr Denton celebrated Mass...
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New Commissioner for the FFI
The Italian website Corrispondenza Romana reports that a new Apostolic Commissioner for the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate has been appointed, following the recent death of the first Commissioner,...
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Tuesday at the Colloquium - Mass in the Ordinary Form
For the first public liturgy of the 2015 CMAA Colloquium, Fr. Robert Pasley, the chaplain of the CMAA, celebrated a Mass in English according to the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Keep checking back...
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FSSP: Ordinations in Lindenberg, Bavaria
This last Saturday, June the 27th, Bishop Brouwet, of Tarbes and Lourdes (France), ordained as priests 6 members of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter: Fr Joseph de Castelbajac (France),Fr Louis Le...
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Solemn Mass for the Feast of the Precious Blood - CMAA 2015 Colloquium
Today at the 2015 CMAA Colloquium, Fr. Jeffrey Keyes celebrated a Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite at the Duquesne University Chapel. Don't forget to keep checking back this week...
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Looking for More from the Colloquium?
Looking for more content from this year's CMAA Colloquium? Hoping to get a bit more of a sense of what it's like? You may know that NLM is owned by the Church Music Association of America, but you may...
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