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Photopost Request: Gaudete Sunday and Rorate Masses
We will be doing a photopost of Gaudete Sunday Masses, featuring your rose-colored vestments, and any Rorate Masses celebrated at any point this Advent, in either Form of the Roman Rite. We will be...
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New Organ Recording: Influences, by Jonathan Ryan
This article by Janet Gorbitz is cross-posted from The Chant Café.CMAA Board Member and Colloquium Faculty member Jonathan Ryan announces the release of a new solo organ recording available...
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Card. Burke to Celebrate Christmas Eve at Trinità dei Pellegrini
On Christmas Eve, His Eminence the Most Reverend Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, will attend Matins and celebrate Pontifical Midnight Mass Priestly...
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The Golden Mass of Ember Wednesday (Reprint from 2009)
When examined as a group, the Gospels for the Masses of Advent may seem to be ordered in a rather peculiar way. They are in fact arranged chronologically backwards. On the First Sunday of Advent, the...
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Missa Cantata for Ember Friday in, Alexandria, VA
A Missa Cantata for the Ember Friday in Advent will be sung tomorrow at 7:30 pm, at Saint Mary’s in Old Town, located at 310 South Royal St in Alexandria, Virginia. The parish hosts an Extraordinary...
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Advent Stations in Washington DC
Guest post from Mr William Newton.On Saturday, December 19th at 7 pm, the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph will be holding their second annual Advent Stations at St. Dominic’s Church in...
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A Crying Shame: the Irony is Lost on Some
Irony is a delightful juxtaposition of one’s expectations and the reality of what actually occurs. Usually the two parts of the juxtaposition are opposites. To quote Alanis Morissette, it’s “ten...
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O Sapientia 2015
O Sapientia, quae ex ore Altissimi prodiisti, attingens a fine usque ad finem, fortiter suaviterque disponens omnia: veni ad docendum nos viam prudentiae.O Wisdom, that comest from the mouth of the...
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A video of Advent Lessons & Carols from St Luke's DC
On the Third Sunday of Advent, Saint Luke’s in Washington DC, a personal parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, hosted its annual service of Lessons and Carols for Advent. The...
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Videos of a Byzantine Ordination and First Divine Liturgy
This past Saturday, Bishop John Kudrick of the Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Parma, Ohio, ordained Deacon Andrew Summerson to the priesthood at the Church of St Stephen in nearby Euclid. The following...
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One More Christmas Gift Idea — a New Book from Angelico
On December 1st, NLM published a list of Christmas gift ideas culled from our authors. More recently, OnePeterFive got into the act with its own list. So, it's true we are practically drowning in...
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O Adonai 2015
O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel, qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti, et ei in Sina legem dedisti: veni ad redimendum nos in brachio extento.O Adonai, and Ruler of the house of Israel, who appeared...
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Dominican Rite Solemn Mass of Christmas Day, Berkeley CA
Cloister Garden of the Carmel of the Holy FamilyI am pleased to announce that the friars of the Western Dominican Province House of Studies will celebrate a Dominican Rite Solemn Mass at 11:30 a.m. on...
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The Neo-Gallican Preface for Advent
The term ‘Neo-Gallican’ is applied to the liturgical books used by a large number of French dioceses between 1667 and 1875, instead of the Roman liturgical books issued under the authority of Pope St....
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O Radix Jesse 2015
O Radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum, super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem gentes deprecabuntur: veni ad liberandum nos, jam noli tardare. O Root of Jesse, which standest as a sign to the...
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Meditations on the 'O Antiphons' by Mgr Charles Pope
Deacon Sabatino of the Institute of Catholic Culture has brought to my attention the recent talk about the O antiphons for the last week of Advent. As well as the talk, which is available on audio and...
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Advent Stations
A statio or station was the post at which a Roman soldier would keep watch, and from this was derived the Lenten practice of having the Church in Rome keep watch at various churches in the city,...
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The Fourth Sunday of Advent - O Clavis David 2015
Introit Isa. 45 Rorate, caeli, désuper, et nubes pluant justum: aperiátur terra, et gérminet Salvatórem. V. ibid. Et justitia oriátur simul; ego Dóminus creávi eum. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spirítui...
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Learning from the Trees
During Advent, many families and parishes have the custom of the Jesse Tree (go here for a beautiful description of what it is and how it works). And, of course, in Christian homes all over the world,...
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O Oriens 2015
O Oriens, splendor lucis aeternae, et sol justitiae: veni, et illumina sedentes in tenebris, et umbra mortis.O Morning Star, splendor of eternal light and sun of righteousness: Come and enlighten those...
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