Dominican Solemn Mass in Rome, March 7
This coming Monday, March 7th, for the traditional feast day of St Thomas Aquinas, Fr Réginald-Marie Rivoire of the Fraternity of St Vincent Ferrer will celebrate a Solemn Mass in the Dominican Rite at...
View ArticleOrdinariate Use Chrism Mass in Washington, D.C., March 17
On March 17 at 7 pm, Bishop Steven J. Lopes, the recently ordained first bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, will come to Washington, D.C. to celebrate a Chrism Mass, at St....
View ArticleDominican Chants for Holy Week
I remind our readers, especially Dominicans, that the Cantus Passionis Domini Nostri Jesu Christihas been republished by Dominican Liturgy Publications. This book contains the music for singing the...
View Article“Our Fidelity to the See of Peter” : The Ukrainian Hierarchy Celebrates the...
Earlier today, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych and leader of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, celebrated a hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the high altar of the...
View ArticleAnother Excellent Series from Fr Hunwicke
Fr Hunwicke has just published a series of three articles called “A Bluffer’s Guide to Pauline Pseudonomy.” Although the topic is per se tangential to liturgical matters, his articles will certainly be...
View ArticleA New TLM Community in Detroit
We just recently received notice of a new community devoted to the celebrate of the traditional Roman Rite, St Thomas Aquinas House in the Archdiocese of Detroit. As noted on their website, this...
View ArticleThe Story of Susanna in the Liturgy of Lent
In the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, the story of Susanna is read as the epistle of Monday of the fifth week of Lent. This episode is not in the Hebrew text of Daniel, but in the manuscripts of the...
View ArticlePhotopost Request: Laetare Sunday 2016
Our next major photopost will be for Laetare Sunday. Please send your photos (whether of the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form) to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org for inclusion. Photos of Vespers and...
View ArticleA Roman Pilgrim at the Station Churches 2016 (Part 4)
Thursday of the Second Week of Lent - Santa Maria in TrastevereThe beauty of this church today hides well the fact that in when Stations were instituted for the Thursdays of Lent by Pope St. Gregory...
View ArticleMonth-Mind for Justice Scalia in Alexandria, VA, March 12
This coming Saturday, March 12, an EF Sung Requiem Mass will be offered for the repose of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away on February 13, at the Church of St Rita in Alexandria,...
View ArticleMore Photos of Archbishop Shevchuk’s Divine Liturgy in Rome
I recently published some photos of a hierarchical Divine Liturgy celebrated by Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halych and leader of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, at the high altar...
View ArticleOn “Pinpointing” Consecration: A Letter for the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas
I happened recently upon a letter I had sent in 2007 to a priest with whom I was having an amicable disagreement. It is more than likely that some NLM readers are confronted with similar objections or...
View Article“The Noblest Sacred Work in Existence”
These were the words with which Sir Edward Elgar described J.S. Bach’s setting of the St Matthew Passion. This formidable work, also known as the ‘Great’ Passion, is something of a musical Mount...
View ArticleFrancesca Murphy to Speak in the Art of the Beautiful Series in NYC this...
Professor Francesca Murphy is giving a talk entitled Beauty and the Spiritual Senses as part of the series offered by the Catholic Artists Society in Manhattan this coming Saturday. I wish I could go!
View ArticleFota IX Conference Dates and Speakers
St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the ninth Fota International Liturgy Conference will be held at the Clarion Hotel, Cork City, Ireland, 9-11 July 2016.The...
View ArticleDominican Rite Solemn Mass in Rome
For the feast of St Thomas Aquinas, priests of the Fraternity of St Vincent Ferrer were very graciously invited to celebrate a Solemn Mass in the Dominican Rite at the Fraternity of St Peter’s Roman...
View ArticleExcellent Article on Sacred Music by Aurelio Porfiri
The organization Paix Liturgique, which, as many readers will know, publishes a fine newsletter in several languages, often including exclusive interviews (their English website is well worth checking...
View ArticleSolemn Mass for the Feast of St Gregory the Great in St Peter’s
On the feast of St. Gregory the Great, the Father of the Latin Sacred Liturgy, the Association “Amicizia Sacerdotale Summorum Pontificum” has organized a Solemn Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, at the...
View ArticleLaetare Sunday 2016 Photopost
As always, we are very grateful to all those who contributed photographs of their Laetare Sunday liturgies and rose-colored vestments. Our next photopost will be of your Passiontide veils - Evangelize...
View ArticleThe Holy League, in Manchester NH This Coming Friday
Some of you may remember that on November 25th I wrote a short piece publicizing the idea of establishing parish based men’s groups that are part of the Holy League.The idea is that the men’s Holy...
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