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Sacred Liturgy Conference in Portland, Oregon, Oct. 29 - Nov. 2
St Stephan Catholic Church in Portland, Oregon, will be hosting a Sacred Liturgy Conference from October 29th to November 2nd. Latin Masses will be celebrated daily in both the Ordinary and...
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EF Pontifical Mass with Archbishop Cordileone, Oct. 2
Full details given in the poster below: click to enlarge. Please note that there will also be Pontifical Vespers in the evening of the same day.
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The Communion of St Jerome by Domenichino
It is to be expected that the Renaissance would greatly admire the figure of St Jerome, second only to St Augustine as the most prolific writer among the Latin Fathers. Augustine himself describes...
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Death and Confession - A Beautiful Commentary in the Catholic Herald
The online Catholic Herald has just published a very moving commentary by an English doctor (written under a pseudonym), telling of his experience in treating patients dying of cancer, first as a...
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The Importance of Latin in the Life of the Church - A Guest Article by Andrew...
This guest article comes to us from Mr Andrew Meszaros, moderator of the Miami Chapter of the Familia Sancti Hieronymi, an organization which seeks to cultivate the use of Latin as a sacred and...
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More about the Art in the Newman Center, Lincoln, Nebraska
A good approach to re-establishing a cultural traditionIn my recent posting about newest edition of the Adoremus Bulletin, I showed the cover photo of the publication, which is of a beautiful wall...
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Dominican Compline - A Video by Fr Lawrence Lew
Fr Lawrence Lew, a long-time contributor to NLM and a diligent photographer and videographer, has just posted this video which he made to youtube. It has the singing of the antiphons at the end of...
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Vesper Hymn for the Feast of the Guardian Angels
A very nice alternation of chant and polyphony, by the Ensemble Venance Fortunat. 1. Custodes hominum psallimus angelos,Naturae fragili quos Pater addiditCoelestis comites, insidiantibusNe succumberet...
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A New Image of the Coptic Martyrs of Libya, by Nikola Sarić
I recently stumbled across this interesting new piece of work by Mr Nikola Sarić, a Serbian artist currently living in Hannover, Germany. (Reproduced here with his kind permission.) It represents the...
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The Order of a Synod in the Traditional Pontifical - First Day (Reprint from...
Since we are now in the midst of the second round of sessions of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, our readers might find interesting the traditional order for holding a synod, according to the...
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Solemn High Mass of Bl. Karl of Austria, Oct. 21 in Washington, D.C.
A Solemn Mass will be celebrated in honor of Blessed Karl, Emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-19; died 1922, beatified 2004), at Old St Mary’s Church in Washington, D.C. (Chinatown), on Wednesday,...
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Solemn Music for a Wedding
Probably more than a few of our readers have experienced an important life event like a wedding or an ordination which, if not ruined, was at least diminished by bad music in the liturgy. I recently...
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Dominican Rite Calendar for 2016 Available
I am pleased to announce that the 2016 Liturgical Calendar for the Dominican Rite is now available on the left sidebar of Dominican Liturgy under "Dominican Rite Texts---Downloadable. This calendar is...
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Denis McNamara on the Theology of Sacred Architecture
Here is the first of a series of 10 short videos (about six minutes each) presented by the architectural historian Denis McNamara of the Liturgical Institute in Mundelein. I had the pleasure of meeting...
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The Greek Mass of St Denys of Paris
Through most of the Middle Ages, knowledge of the Greek language was extremely limited in Western Europe. It is well-known, for example, that St Thomas Aquinas frequently cites the writings of...
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The Order of a Synod in the Traditional Pontifical - Second Day (Reprint from...
For the second round of sessions of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family, we are reprinting from last year the traditional order for holding a synod, according to the 1595 Pontifical of Clement VIII,...
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How is the Marriage of Joseph and Mary a True Marriage?
For those communities availing themselves of the 1962 Missale Romanum, October 11 is the modern feastday of the Divine Maternity or Motherhood of Our Lady. I say “modern” because it was instituted by...
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A Medieval Portable Shrine
The website of the British Museum has just posted this video about an absolutely extraordinary devotional object, a tiny portable shrine carved of boxwood, made in the northern Netherlands around 1510,...
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“Fearless Heralds of the Truth” - The Order of a Synod in the Traditional...
This is the final part of the order of a synod according to the 1595 Pontifical of Pope Clement VIII; here are the link to part 1 and part 2. These were originally posted last year during the first...
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A Great Chant Resource : Putting the Whole Gradual on Youtube
Yesterday I just happened to stumble across a chant website called Gregoriana, the work of Mr Marek Klein from Slovakia. Among various other activities, one section of the site is called the Graduale...
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