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Easter Sunday 2016 Photopost
To finish our Holy Week photoposts for this year, we finally bring you photos from Easter Sunday. Thanks to those who sent them in! St. Stephen, Portland, ORSt. Peter, Steubenville, OHChrist The King,...
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More on the Relics of St Charbel
The relics of St Charbel Maklouf, the famous Maronite monk, will be at St Basil’s Melkite Greek Catholic Seminary in Methuen, Massachusetts, from Monday Aptil 25th to the following Wednesday. See the...
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The Omission that Haunts the Church — 1 Corinthians 11:27-29
In all the discussion that is happening over the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, undoubtedly the question of who may or may not receive Holy Communion will remain at the forefront....
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Way of Beauty Weekend in June in Rural Vermont
I have been invited by the OQ Farm in beautiful farmland close to Woodstock, Vermont, to lead a weekend study centered around the traditional formation that would been given to the great Catholic...
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“It Is Right and Just” - A New Book on the Responses of the Mass
Newman House Press has just published a work by Fr John Cunningham, a Dominican priest from Ireland, called “It Is Right and Just - Responses of the Roman Missal”, an analysis of and reflection on the...
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Catharsis and the Rhetoric of the Gospel
Eduard Bendemann (1811-1889), Die trauernden Juden im ExilGood drama makes us feel good. We experience deep satisfaction when bad guys get their just deserts, and good guys emerge victorious despite...
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The Solemnity of St Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church 2016
Regarding the various graces conferred upon a rational creature, it is the general rule that whenever the divine grace chooses someone for a particular grace, or for a particular exalted state, it also...
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Call for Icon Painters for the Ukrainian National Shrine of the Holy Family
A former student of mine, a graduate of Thomas More College in New Hampshire, who is now studying at CUA and attends the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in Washington DC has...
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St. Thomas Aquinas and Pope Francis on 1 Corinthians 11:27–29
In his great encyclical on Sacred Scripture, Providentissimus Deus, Pope Leo XIII writes:With the age of the scholastics came fresh and welcome progress in the study of the Bible. … The valuable work...
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Book Notice - Index Lectionum: A Comparative Table of Readings for the OF and EF
Matthew Hazell & Peter Kwasniewski (foreword), Index Lectionum: A Comparative Table of Readings for the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite (Lectionary Study Aids, vol. 1),...
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Third Annual Catholic Literature Conference; Concord, New Hampshire, April 30th
This is an annual conference that grew out the a one-off event organized speculatively two years ago. To the surprise and delight of all involved, it attracted a large and engaged crowd of people...
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Guest Article on Liturgical Law, Tradition, and Culture
A university student in the American Midwest sent in this guest article to NLM, which we are happy to share with our readership.A Conceptual Tripod: Liturgical Law, Tradition, and Cultureby Aelredus...
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Pilgrimage and TLM at Newark Cathedral, This Saturday, April 23
On Saturday, April 23, the Oratory of Christ the King Sovereign Priest at Saint Anthony of Padua, West Orange, New Jersey, invites you to a pilgrimage through the Holy Doors of the Cathedral Basilica...
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15th Anniversary of the Hong Kong Tridentine Liturgy Community
This was sent in by a reader from Hong Kong, a video made by Father Cyril Law, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Hong Kong Tridentine Liturgy Community. Father Law, a diocesan priest of Macau...
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St. John Vianney's Preaching on Unworthy Communions
Two Miracles of the Host (tapestry, French?, between 1505 and 1518)In my article last week, I spoke about one of the most glaring lacunae of the modern Roman Liturgy, namely, its deliberate suppression...
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Latin and Greek Summer Immersion Program at Ave Maria University
Ave Maria University in Florida has been offering interested students a unique opportunity for the past five years: summer courses in beginning and intermediate Latin and Greek, teaching students to...
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Ancient Christian Artifacts at the Louvre
Our Ambrosian correspondent Nicola de’ Grandi was recently in Paris, and took these photographs of some of the ancient Christian artworks kept at the Louvre Museum.A gilded piece of glass of the type...
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Christian Wisdom from the Anglican Tradition
A devout Anglican reader of this blog send me the following texts from the Book of Common Prayer, as evidence that the points made by St. Paul, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. John Vianney, and, well, the...
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Not Your Average Campus Chapel (Krems, Austria)
Since January 1st of this year, the Catholic university chaplain of Krems, Austria, has his seat at the Piarist Church of that city, which has become the center of the Campus Ministry. There are over...
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The Ghent Altarpiece - What Makes it So Suited for the Liturgy?
One of the greatest masterpieces ever painted, the Ghent Altarpiece (also known as the “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb”) was created in the 15th century by Flemish brothers Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. While...
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