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The Feast of St Benedict 2015
Gloriosus Confessor Domini, orationem faciens, benedictionem dedit; et lapis, super quem antiquus hostis sedebat, subito levatus est. (3rd antiphon of Vespers on the Solemnity of St Benedict.)The...
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Is the Youth of Today Necessarily “Modern Man”?
One of many choirs at this year's ColloquiumRecently my son and I participated in the Sacred Music Colloquium XXV of the Church Music Association of America, held at Dusquesne University in Pittsburgh....
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The Feast of St Camillus de Lellis
Today is the anniversary of the death in 1614 of St Camillus de Lellis, and his feast day in the Calendar of the Ordinary Form. Born in the Abruzzi region of Italy, he served in youth as a soldier of...
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A First Mass in Slovenia
Our thanks to a reader who sent in some pictures from the facebook page of the parish church of St Peter in Radovljica, Slovenia, where newly ordained Fr Gašper Mauko recently celebrated his first...
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St Vladimir the Great
Today marks the 1000th anniversary of the death of St Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev, who is honored by the Byzantine churches as one of the most important figures in the Christianization of...
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A New Polyphonic Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
The FSSP church in Littleton, Colorado, dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, will celebrate its patronal feast this evening with a polyphonic Mass newly composed for the occasion. The composer, Mr J...
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Liturgical Colors and Vesting Prayers: A Radio Talk by Fr Eric Andersen
The website of Mater Dei radio, based in Portland Oregon, has made available another interview with Fr Eric Ansdersen, a priest of the diocese of Portland, this time talking about (inter alia) the...
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From the Fota Conference: Presentation of Last Year’s Proceedings
As a final note from the Eighth Fota Liturgical Conference recently concluded in Cork, Ireland, the proceedings of last year’s conference, were launched by His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke. In...
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Good News and Bad from the Dominican Order
By an interesting coincidence, two items about the Dominican order popped up on facebook today. The bad-news item comes from Sandro Magister, who reports that for lack of vocations, the central Italian...
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A First Mass in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Our thanks and congratulations to Fr Royce Gregerson of the diocese of Fort Wayne - South Bend, Indiana, for sending in these photos from the Solemn High Mass which he celebrated on Corpus Christi, the...
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A Relic of St Camillus de Lellis
After seeing our post about St Camillus de Lellis, the founder of the congregation of Clerks Regular known as the Ministers of the Sick, on his OF feast day (July 14), a reader sent in this photograph...
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St. Thomas Aquinas’s Early Commentary on the Mass
St. Thomas Aquinas discusses at some length the place, time, location, words, and ceremonies of the Mass and their fittingness in the Summa theologiae, Tertia Pars, question 83. This text is, of...
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An Icon of the Prophet Elijah
In the liturgical Calendar of the Byzantine Rite, and in the two Carmelite Orders, July 20th is the feast of the Prophet Elijah. The Eastern tradition keeps almost all of the Prophets as Saints, and...
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Sacred Music Workshop
There will be a Summer Sacred Music Workshop in Georgia, to be be held at Our Lady of the Mountains Roman Catholic Church in Jasper, GA, on August 15, 2015. This one-day workshop is open to anyone who...
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St John XXIII on St Lawrence of Brindisi
Today is the feast of St Lawrence of Brindisi, who was born on the feast of St Mary Magdalene in 1559, and died on the same day at the age of sixty in 1619. Although his family was Venetian, he was...
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Fifth Centenary of the Birth of St Philip Neri
Just a brief notice that today, July 21, 2015, is the 500th anniversary of the birth of St Philip Neri. Although St Philip spent most of his life in Rome, moving there when he was 18, and there founded...
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A New Black Vestment Set
An old friend, Fr Joseph Langan of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, sent us these photos of a new set of black vestments which he commissioned from the famous Gammarelli firm in Rome. The floral...
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The Feast of St Mary Magdalene 2015
From the Grandes Heures d’Anne de Bretagne (The Great Hours of Anne of Brittany), made by Jean Bourdichon, 1503-8, for Anne, Duchess of Brittany and Queen of France (1477-1514), and considered to be...
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“We Sing of God Alone and for God Alone, Through the Traditional Liturgy.” -...
Those who plan on participating in the Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage to Rome this year, from October 22-25, will not only be able to attend the traditional liturgy in St Peter’s Basilica and...
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Iconoclasm in New York City
One of the many lovely churches in the city of New York, The Church of Our Savior, had a number of beautiful icons ornamenting the sanctuary, placed there by a previous pastor, Father George Rutler,...
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