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The Blessing of Herbs on the Feast of the Assumption
According to a fairly ancient tradition, which St. John Damascene (among others) attests in the 8th century, when it came time for the Virgin Mary’s earthly life to end, all of the Apostles, then...
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What Do “the People in the Pews” Deserve?: On the Right of the Faithful to...
In 2004, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments published the Instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum, “On certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the...
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New Adoremus Bulletin out - featuring Adam Bartlett, Joseph O'Brien, Cardinal...
The July edition of the Adoremus Bulletin is now out, produced under the leadership of its new editor Chris Carstens. Articles include translations of public statements by Cardinal Robert Sarah, as...
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Upcoming UK Conference on Dominicans in the Middle Ages
From the website of the Dominican Friars of England and Scotland comes this news of a conference to be held at Oxford from Sept. 10-12, on “The Influences of the Dominican Order in the Middle Ages.”...
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Solemn High Masses in Lander, Wyoming
As many readers know, Wyoming is one of the largest States in the country, vast and beautiful, and yet the least populated of all 50 States. This contributes to Wyoming’s palpable sense of solitude,...
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Professions at Silverstream Priory
Silverstream Monks with guests visit Old Mellifont Abbey. Left to right: D. Basil McCabe, D. Ildebrando Wehbe, the Rt. Rev. Dom Antoine Beauchef, Abbot of Flavigny, D. Mark Kirby, D. Benedict Andersen,...
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Cistercian Chant for the Feast of St Bernard
In honor of the feast of St Bernard of Clairvaux, here are two sets of recordings of Cistercian chants made in the 1960s. The first one has the Salve Regina, the hymn Sanctorum meritis from Vespers of...
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Mater Ecclesiae’s Assumption Mass in Philadelphia
Some choice photos of the Assumption Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, PA.For more photos please go to www.materlatin.org. For a video of the procession please view...
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Solemn EF Mass in Vancouver Cathedral for the Feast of St Augustine
On Friday, August 28th, a Solemn Mass for the feast of St Augustine will be celebrated in Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver, British Columbia, starting at 7:30 p.m. The cathedral is located at 646...
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Bishop Schneider at the “Ars Celebrandi” Workshops in Licheń, Poland
Our thanks to the organizers of the Ars Celebrandi workshops for sending us these photographs and the accompanying press release. I would call our readers’ attention particularly to the report in the...
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The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer Available Again
Quite a number of NLM readers were dismayed when it looked as if the new English translation of Bouyer's Memoirs had gone out of print. Happily, Amazon has the Memoirs back in stock again, ready for...
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A Course on Poetry Inspired by the Mystical Tradition of the Church
This is, as far as I am aware, a new liturgically centered approach to teaching literature, the first in a series offered by Andrew Thornton-Norris, Resident Poet of the Imaginative Conservative and...
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Assumption 2015 Photopost - Part 1
The best of our photoposts are the ones which show not only the beauty, but also the variety and the great richness of our liturgical practice, and the many submissions which we received for the...
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Assumption 2015 Photopost - Part 2
Here is the second part of our Assumption photopost, with our renewed thanks to all those who sent in images of their liturgies.The next to last set comes from the Hermitage of Our Lady of the Garden...
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On the Participation of the Clergy in a Non-Concelebrated Mass
Some time ago, a reader and I corresponded about a question that may be of interest to NLM readers more generally. The reader was a priest who had recently learned to offer Mass in the Extraordinary...
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A Talk on John Singer Sargent in Manchester, NH, Thursday, August 27
Paul Ingbretson is opening up his painting school, the Ingbretson Studios, this Thursday, to give a talk on one of the great artists of the naturalistic tradition, John Singer Sargent, and the movement...
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Assumption 2015 - Final Photpost
As is often the case, we’ve had a enough late submissions for the feast of the Assumption to make a third and final photopost. I am also including a video of a procession in honor of the Virgin Mary’s...
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Society of St. Dominic Announces Concert with Victoria Requiem
The Society of St. Dominic, based in Winnipeg, is pleased to announce a major undertaking in connection with the Camerata Nova. If you are anywhere near Winnipeg, make sure you get this in your...
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In Memoriam
Today, August 26, marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Professor László Dobszay (1935-2011), a true Catholic gentleman and scholar. Many, perhaps most, readers of NLM will have heard of him and...
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Summorum Pontificum Conference in Santiago de Chile
The first International Summorum Pontificum Conference in Chile was recently held in the city of Santiago from July 21-23 at the Nuestra Señora de La Dehesa retreat house, focused mainly on the...
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