Sacra Liturgia UK, July 5-8 - Registration Now Open
Registrations are now open for the Sacra Liturgia conference, which will take place in London this summer from July 5-8. Full information is available at the following link on their website:...
View ArticleThe Monastery of Saint Benedict at Subiaco
After seeing yesterday’s post about St Benedict’s disciple St Maurus, reader Jordan Hainsey very kindly sent in these beautiful photographs of the monastery at Subiaco, Italy, where the famous miracle...
View ArticleEpiphany in Munich
Thanks to reader Dawid Patryk Szmigielski for sending in these photos and description of the Epiphany celebrations at the church of St Peter in Munich, Germany.Epiphany was a packed day of liturgical...
View ArticleFourth Annual Nellie Gray Mass
The Paulus Institute for the Propagation of Sacred Liturgy, Washington, DC, has announced that the Fourth Annual Nellie Gray Mass will take place after the 43rd March for Life, Friday, January 22,...
View ArticleThe Balance Scale: Nineteen to One
In an article here at NLM, Gregory DiPippo beautifully summed up the fundamental difference between the original Liturgical Movement and its increasingly revolutionary successor prior to, during, and...
View ArticlePaschal Candles
Here are some examples of Paschal candles created by Gina Switzer of Columbus, Ohio. Her parish is St Patrick’s in Columbus, the Dominican church in the city.I give you this information for two...
View Article“Why Don't You Put the Circumcision Back on the Calendar?”
From the Facebook page of TV2000, the television channel of the Italian Episcopal Conference, comes this video of a brief encounter between an elderly Jewish man and the Pope during His Holiness’...
View ArticleWorld Premier of Major Choral Work, and Conference for Musicians and Artists
I have just received early notice of the premier of a new major work by composer Frank La Rocca, which will take place in Dallas, Texas on Saturday, May 21, 2016 at 8:00 pm. It is an oratorio called A...
View ArticleNuptial Mass at the Throne - Madison, Wisconsin
On January 2nd, I was blessed to be united in the Sacrament of Matrimony to my amazing wife. Not only that, but we were also doubly blessed by Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison being the celebrant at...
View ArticleJosep Obiols, An “Other Modern” Artist from Catalonia
From time to time, the New Liturgical Movement will cover the work of artists and architects from recent history, whose work, while “modern,” nonetheless took a different and more traditional path than...
View ArticleWashing of the Feet Officially Opened to Women
By a letter to Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Pope Francis has officially ordered the modification the rubric of the Roman...
View ArticleThe Blessing of the Lambs on the Feast of St Agnes 2016
Our Roman pilgrim-on-the-scene, Agnese Bazzucchi, once again celebrated her name-day (tanti auguri!) with a visit to the church of Saint Agnes Outside-the-Walls, the original site of the martyr’s...
View ArticleLenten Retreat in Allentown, NJ, Feb. 19-21
Father Carlos Hamel of the Fraternity of Saint Joseph the Guardian will preach a retreat based on the Ignatian Exercises, at the Church of Saint John the Baptist, 1282 Yardville-Allentown Road,...
View ArticleNellie Gray Mass in DC NOT Cancelled
Just a brief note to all our readers who may be in the Washington D.C. area for the March for Life: contrary to what I just posted a few minutes ago, Fr Z writes that the Fourth Annual Nellie Gray Mass...
View ArticleA Note on Catalan Romanesque Painting and Church Furniture in the Museo...
One of the great pleasures of visiting Spain is that, despite the violence that has been visited on her churches and abbeys from time to time, by and large its ecclesiastical heritage has remained far...
View ArticleAn Essay on Beauty, Culture and the Liturgy in the Latest Antiphon Journal
I would like to draw your attention to the latest edition of the Antiphon Journal. As usual, all the writers are worth reading, and their names will be recognizable to NLM readers. I mention it...
View ArticleSummer Theology Program in Norcia with Dr. Kwasniewski, Fr. Crean, and the...
Since 2012, the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies, in cooperation with the Benedictine Monks of Norcia, has offered a two-week summer theology program at the birthplace of SS. Benedict and...
View ArticleSeptuagesima Sunday: Burying the Alleluia
I am sure that many of our readers are familiar with the various customs related to the removal of the Alleluia from the liturgy on Septuagesima Sunday. In the Roman liturgical books, this is done in...
View ArticleCard. Zen to Offer EF Pontifical at Eucharistic Congress in the Philippines
His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Zen Ze-kiun, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong, will celebrate a Pontifical Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament in the Extraordinary Form, as part of the 51st International...
View ArticleThe Conversion of St Paul
Called by Christ from heaven, and laid low upon the earth, from a persecutor, he became a chosen vessel, and, laboring more than all others, sowed the grace of the Word more broadly among all, * and...
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