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Reader Question: Mass During Exposition
A priestly reader sends in the following questions. Perhaps some of our ceremoniere can be of assistance. Please use the comments: I wonder if I might ask whether you or any of your readers know the...
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Book Notice: Singing the Mass, by the Monks of Solesmes
Our readers may be interested to know of the following new offerings from the Abbey of Solesmes (which is being available in North America through Paraclete Press): Singing the Mass: Sung Order of Mass...
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A Young Man's Labours
With Laetare Sunday coming up, I am provided with an opportunity not only to show another rose vestment we have not shown here before, but also to show some new vestment work. This particular set is...
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Fr. Armand de Malleray: Clergy Pilgrimage to Catholic Bavaria
Father Armand de Malleray, FSSP, is leading a "Clergy pilgrimage to Catholic Bavaria" this May, and as that is coming up rather quickly, I thought I had better let some of our clergy know sooner rather...
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Pugin’s Church Becomes Official Shrine of St Augustine
This press release was issued yesterday by the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales: Pugin’s Church becomes Official Shrine of St Augustine Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark has formally...
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Practice Resources for the Exsultet (New English Translation)
The Easter Vigil is coming up more quickly than one might think, and so I thought some of our readers might be interested to know (for the sake of knowing and practicing), that Corpus Christi Watershed...
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Looking Again at the Monastère Saint-Benoît, Fréjus-Toulon
It was just about a month ago that we published an interview with the prior of the a new monastery attached to the usus antiquior in the diocese of Fréjus-Toulon, France, the Monastère Saint-Benoît....
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The Samaritan Woman in the Liturgy of Lent
In the lectionaries of the various Latin rites, one of the most prominent Gospels of the Lenten season is that of the Samaritan woman who spoke to Christ at the well of Jacob (St. John 4, 5-42)....
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Nina Somerset at St Silas the Martyr, London
The following works of art were brought to my attention by a reader. They are by a lady who was otherwise unknown to me (though NLM has featured her altar card work here before); she died in 1982: Nina...
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Laetare Sunday, Graduale Romanum
Yes, the Sunday gets its name from the Introit. The rest of the propers are just as amazing.
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Laetare, Simple English Propers
If you aren't prepared to sing the Gregorian originals, at least offer music that helps account for why this is called Laetare Sunday.
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More New Vestment Work (And Some Laetare Sunday Photos)
Further to our recent post showing the work of a young Italian man on a new rose vestment, I wanted to share with you another new rose vestment set, this time, executed by the Canons Regular of the New...
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Laetare in Genoa, Italy
A reader sends in the following photos which show the Mass of Laetare Sunday from the chapel of the Turchine nuns in Genoa, Italy. The celebrant was Don Massimo Moroncelli, chaplain. Photos courtesy of...
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Sights and Sounds from the Abbey of Le Barroux
For those of you who, like myself, share a passion for monasticism, I would encourage you to watch the following video which incorporates chants from the Abbey of Le Barroux along with a photo montage...
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Usus Antiquior in Japan
I have noted before how interested I am to hear from Catholics attached to the usus antiquior in parts of the world within the Eastern hemisphere, and so I was particularly pleased to recently be...
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The Chinese Work of Dom Adelbert Gresnigt, OSB
Further to our look earlier today at the usus antiquior in Japan, another item of interest came our way recently from this region of the world, this time in relation to Catholic China. It is work that...
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Gammarelli's Launches Website
By way of John Sonnen I learned that the famed Roman ecclesiastical tailors, Gammarelli's, now have a web presence: Here is a little sampling of some of the vestments their site shows (and, perhaps a...
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Don Nicola Bux Personally Appeals to the SSPX: "This is the appropriate...
As many of you have no doubt heard already, last week the Holy See issued a communique around the talks with the Society of St. Pius X, wherein it was noted that "moved by concern to avoid an ecclesial...
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Pax Inter Spinas
On this day c. 542, St Benedict of Nursia, father of Western monasticism, was called home to God. His feast is kept on this day in the Extraordinary Form, but in the Ordinary Form it is kept on 11...
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The Church of St. John's Abbey, Collegeville: Before
Many will doubtless be familiar with St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota including its present, very 'industrial' abbey church architecture. However what many of you may not be so familiar with...
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