Third Anniversary Mass for the Anglican Use Community of St Gregory the Great...
The Anglican Ordinariate community of St Gregory the Great will be have a special Mass for its third Feast of Title and Dedication, to be held at St Patrick’s Parish in Stoneham, Massachusetts, on...
View ArticleThe Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary
For a fairly brief period, today was kept by the Franciscans as the feast of the Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary. As an expression of the Seraphic Order’s devotional life, it corresponds to the feast of...
View ArticleThe Carthusian Salve Regina
I just happened to stumble across this recording of the Salve Regina sung by monks of the Grande Chartreuse, the mother house of the Carthusian Order. It is accompanied by a number of pictures,...
View ArticleA Legend of St Augustine
St Augustine Confounds the Devil, by Michael Pacher, 1471-75, in the Alte Pinakothek of Munich.It is also read that while St Augustine was alive in the flesh, and was reading certain things, he saw a...
View ArticleThe Christian Environmentalism that the Media Choose to Ignore
We Need More People in World, Not Fewer...And the Liturgy to Transform ThemWe need more people in the world, not fewer, if we are to solve the world’s problems. And we need more gardeners - I am...
View ArticleThe Calculation of the September Ember Days (Reprint)
This article, which explains the difference between the traditional dating of the September Ember Days, and that currently used in the EF, was originally published in 2010. The discrepancy between the...
View ArticleThe EF Returns to Macau, China
This coming Saturday, a votive Mass of the Virgin Mary will be celebrated in the Chapel of St Joseph Seminary on the island of Macau, with music by a local ensemble, Die Konzertisten, singing the Mass...
View ArticleThoughts on the Abandonment and Recovery of Church Slavonic
I dearly love the Eastern Christian liturgies and have the very fondest memories of the almost 8-year span at the International Theological Institute in Austria when my family and I were able to attend...
View ArticleUpcoming Events at Steubenville ; EF Pontifical with Card. Burke, Conference...
On Tuesday, September 8, the feast of Our Lady’s Nativity, Raymond Cardinal Burke will celebrate a Pontifical High Mass at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, located at 425 N 4th St., in Steubenville, Ohio....
View ArticleMore from the Ars Celebrandi Workshops in Poland
The organizers of the Ars Celebrandi workshops recently held in Poland have produced a nice video highlighting their many different activities, the various liturgies, as well as the seminars and...
View ArticleDominican Rite Absolution for Confessions during a Jubilee
Yesterday, the Holy Father announced the indulgences and other grants of pardon for the coming Jubilee Year of Mercy beginning December 8, 2015. Among the items listed was a grant to all priests of the...
View ArticleMedieval Allegories of the Divine Office
I have often had occasion to quote the medieval canonist and liturgical scholar William Durandus, bishop of Mende in France, who was born in a small town in Provence in 1237, and died at Rome in 1296....
View ArticleHow a Painting of St Gregory the Great Shows Us the Supernatural End of...
Today is the OF feast of one of the four great early Latin Fathers and Doctors of the Church, St Gregory the Great. The others are Ss. Jerome, Ambrose and Augustine.A Benedictine monk, Gregory was...
View ArticleNLM is Now on Instagram
New Liturgical Movement is now on Instagram! If you are on Instagram, check us out! We hope it provides a glimpse of beauty into your feed every day. While this does not replace our photoposts for...
View ArticleThe Asperges in the Ordinary Form?
While preparing my paper for last June’s Sacra Liturgia USA conference, I made a discovery that will perhaps interest some NLM readers. In the traditional Roman Rite, the ceremony of sprinkling the...
View ArticleLatin OF Mass for the Exaltation of the Cross at St Paul’s Cathedral,...
On Monday, September 14, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, at 7:00 p.m., a Mass in the Ordinary Form will be celebrated in Latin, ad orientem, by the Very Rev. Msgr. Robert Johnson, at the...
View ArticleOrdinariate Missal Soon to Be Published
From the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham comes news that the Ordinariate Missal, and an accompanying volume of occasional services, will be published in time for Advent this year. Here...
View ArticleBook Review: David Clayton's The Way of Beauty: Liturgy, Education, and...
Readers of NLM are no strangers to the fine work of David Clayton, as painter and iconographer, teacher and writer, and generally a whirlwind of interesting ideas on all things aesthetic. Over the...
View ArticleDominican Cloistered Nuns Make the New York Times!
My friends and sisters, the Dominican Nuns of Summit NJ have just been featured in the New York Times Style Section.I am not going to summarize the lovely article since you can read it yourself here....
View ArticleA Litany for the Holy Father
With the upcoming Synod, so many needs and crises in the Church, and, in general, out of our piety as Catholics towards the Holy Father, we should be praying for Pope Francis more than ever these...
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