Clik here to view.
The Ember Saturday of Lent at Sarum and St. Peter's
In the Roman Missal, the fifth prophecy is the same on all four Ember Saturdays, Daniel 3, 47-51, with a few of the verses re-ordered. The words that follow in the Biblical text (verses 52-57) are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
AWN Pugin Bicentenary: Varia (including Solemn Mass in EF at St. Augustine,...
This past March 1st was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of the great gothic revivalists, and NLM has a few things to note about this occasion. First, BBC have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Christe Qui Lux es et Dies - An Ancient Hymn for Compline during Lent
The Gospel of the Transfiguration, which was read this past Saturday, the Ember Saturday of Lent, and resumed yesterday at the Mass of the second Sunday of Lent gives me the opportunity to present an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
Review: The Roman Breviary in English and Latin, Baronius Press
As previously announced, the Baronius Press edition of the Roman Breviary has now been released and I wanted to present a quick review. At its most basic, what we are speaking about here is a parallel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If A Commission Spoke, What Should It Say?
Valentín Miserachs, head of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, has repeated his call for a Vatican commission to pronounce on the problem of music in Catholic liturgy. Like many others, he has...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The New FSSP Church in Ottawa?
Below is a photo of St. Clement's, the present church of the FSSP in Ottawa; a church built in 1957 and of not terribly great architectural merit if we were to be bluntly honest about the matter: Below...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cardinal Cañizares on Moderating the Use of Concelebration
On March 5th, Cardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera gave a paper at the pontifical university of Santa Croce, presenting Msgr. Guillaume Derville's work, La concélébration eucharistique. Du symbole à la...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Liturgical Developments in the Anglican Ordinariate
The following press release was issued yesterday by the communications offices of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham: Holy See approves first liturgical resources for Ordinariate The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NLM Quiz no. 12: What Are They Carrying On Their Shoulders?
Can you guess what these deacons are carrying on their shoulders and why? Please give your answer in the comments, and give whatever detail you can about the context. To make this more interesting,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Choir of Westminter Abbey and Sistine Choir on the Feast of Ss. Peter and Paul
Many of our readers have often commented on the differences between the choral music as seen within the English (Anglican or Catholic) tradition, and what is often heard within the Holy See. In view of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Holy Coat Pilgrimage 2012
In the year 1512 Emperor Maximilian I demanded to see the greatest relic of Trier Cathedral, which had heretofore been enclosed invisbly in the cathedral's high altar: the Holy Coat, the seamless...
View ArticleClik here to view.
New Edition of Les Heures Grégoriennes
A little over two years ago we spoke to readers about the Communauté Saint-Martin and their publication, Les Heures Grégoriennes (The Gregorian Hours) -- a Latin-French edition of the Liturgia Horarum...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Chapel and Cloister at Visitation School and Convent, Frederick,...
Here are some photographs of the well preserved 19th century chapel of the Visitation Academy in Frederick, Maryland. Sitting on three-acres the Chapel and monastery were completed in 1852 and and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
Dominican Rite at St. Vincent Ferrer, New York City
From the Dominican Province of St. Joseph: ...a Missa Cantata in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas that was celebrated according to the traditional Dominican Rite at Saint Vincent Ferrer Church in New York...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Brief Meditation on the Importance of the Vocation of the Catholic Artisan
The proper sphere of a Catholic craftsman who is responsive to the appeal of the liturgical movement is to translate its doctrine into terms of form and color, and so help in presenting it to his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pastoral Visit of Archbishop of Seattle to FSSP Community
[From a reader:] On Wednesday, March 7, North American Martyrs Parish (FSSP) hosted Archbishop J. Peter Sartain of Seattle for a pastoral visit to commemorate the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Solemn Pontifical Mass in Libreville, Gabon
I am always rather interested in showing images of the usus antiquior from outside the context of the usual North American and European venues; not because of any lack of interest in seeing these...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Musical Shape of the Liturgy
Over the week, I was on the faculty at another parish workshop on music, this one for what I think of as a conventional parish. The singers are all volunteers. There is someone paid (too little) to...
View Article