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Denis McNamara on Sacred Architecture, Part 10: The Documents of Vatican II
This is the tenth and concluding video of the series. Throughout, Prof. McNamara has been referring to the documents of the Second Vatican Council, but in this he recaps and spells out the directives...
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Gaudete Sunday Photopost 2015
We received such a large number of photographs in response to our most recent request that I am going to split them up into two separate posts. Today we will have those from Gaudete Sunday, tomorrow...
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Rationale Worn by the Bishop of Eichstätt
The website of the Passionist Fathers of southern Germany and Austria has recently posted some photographs of the opening of the Holy Door in the Diocese of Eichstätt, Germany, which are reproduced...
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O Rex Gentium 2015
O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum, lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum: veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti.O King of the nations, and desire thereof, and cornerstone that makest of...
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Fota IX Conference Dates Announced for July 2016
St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the Fota IX International Liturgy Conference will be held in Cork, Ireland, 9-11 July 2016. The subject of the conference is...
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Tonsure and Minor Orders in Toulon, France
On Saturday, December 19, H.E. Dominique Rey, Bishop de Fréjus-Toulon conferred the tonsure and minor orders on seminarians of the diocese and the Fraternity of St Joseph the Guardian, at the basilica...
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Recording of Advent Lessons and Carols at the Pontifical Institute for Sacred...
Good news from the Eternal City. Last week there was an Advent Lessons and Carols concert in Rome, with a choir made up of students from the Pontifical Institute for Sacred Music, as well as a number...
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Advent Photopost - Rorate Masses
Here is our photopost of Rorate Masses and various other celebrations in Advent. A few of these are not Rorate Masses properly so-called, which is to say, the Advent votive Mass of the Virgin Mary, but...
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O Emmanuel 2015
O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster.O Emmanuel, our king and lawgiver, longing of the nations and Savior thereof: Come...
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Dominican Rite Solemn Mass for Christmas Day, SF Bay Area
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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Midwives to the Truth: A Sacred Conversation about Christmas
Something worth talking about: Sacra Conversatione (Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588)Parishes do their very best on Christmas. As no doubt Garrison Keillor would relate about Lutherans and Catholics in Lake...
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The New Rite Prefaces for Advent
The Second Vatican Council’s constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, says precisely nothing about the Preface of the Mass. However, there can be no doubt that its revision was on...
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Photopost Request for Christmas 2015
Out next major photopost will be for liturgies celebrated on Christmas and during the Octave, whether of the OF or the EF, or any of the Eastern Rites; and as always, we will also be very glad to...
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Photographs of Midnight Mass 2015 at the London Oratory
Here are some photographs of Midnight Mass at the London Oratory this evening. A Merry Christmas to all! [Photos: Charles Cole]
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Merry Christmas!
Best wishes for a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all of our readers, from all of the writers and staff of the NLM. Pray for peace, and may the birth of Christ bring peace to you and all...
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Fota IX Conference Dates Announced for July 2016
St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the Fota IX International Liturgy Conference will be held in Cork, Ireland, 9-11 July 2016. The subject of the conference is...
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St Stephen the First Martyr
The gates of heaven were laid open to Christ’s blessed martyr Stephen, who was the first found in the company of the martyrs; * and therefore he triumpheth crowned in heaven. V. For he was the first to...
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St John the Evangelist
This is John, who at the supper rested upon the breast of the Lord; * blessed is the Apostle, to whom the secrets of heaven were revealed. V. He drank in the running waters of the Gospel directly from...
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Fr Hunwicke Needs Your Help - A Linguistic Challenge
Since today is the OF feast of the Holy Family, the Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, the great Fr Hunwicke, with his usual wit and erudition, has put up a bit of commentary on one of the hymns...
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