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Sacred Concert in Rome, Wednesday, April 27
This coming Wednesday, April 27, the Rome-based St Cecilia Women’s Schola will present the latest in its ongoing series of concerts of Gregorian chant and polyphony at the Church of the Visitation, via...
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Month-Mind Traditional Requiem for Mother Angelica, April 28th
The Latin Mass Community of Jersey City announces the celebration of a Month’s Mind Requiem Mass for Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, who died on Easter Sunday. The Month’s Mind Mass will take...
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On the Inclusion of 1 Corinthians 11:27-29 in the Ordinary Form
In his recent NLM article The Omission that Haunts the Church, Dr Peter Kwasniewski rightly observes that the omission of 1 Corinthians 11:27-29 from multiple points in the usus recentior has...
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The Office of Vespers as Sacrifice - Guest Article
Skyler Neberman is a student of Theology and Philosophy at Benedictine College, and hopes to continue on to graduate studies in Systematic Theology and the Liturgy. He is interested in the restoration...
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Paul Jernberg's Music to Be Sung at Masses in Milwaukee, Pittsburg and...
The liturgical music of composer Paul Jernberg is deservedly beginning to catch attention. In the next few weeks his Mass of St Philip Neri, which is written for the Ordinary Form celebrated in...
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Sacra Liturgia UK Program Announced for July 2016
The full conference programme for Sacra Liturgia UK, which will be held in London, from July 5-9 this year has now been published on the conference website and may be consulted through the link on this...
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Liturgical Notes on the Feast of St George
St George has the distinction of being one of the earliest examples of a Saint whose biography was recognized to be historically doubtful. A document of the early 6th century known as the Gelasian...
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Gregorian Chant Workshop in Amenia, NY, June 21-24
A four day workshop-retreat for those who want to learn how to sing and lead Gregorian chant will take place from Tuesday, June 21, through Friday, June 24, at the Wethersfield Estate in Amenia, New...
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Newly Republished: Cantus Mariales — Rare 1903 Book of Marian Chants
Choirs and scholas often like to have a selection of devotional chants for ad libitum use. Books like The Parish Book of Chant have done an admirable job in this regard, but I often find there is a...
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Catholic Artists Conference and Faces of Christ Exhibition: Sept 12-13,...
Here is early notice of a conference that will take place in the fall. The Catholic Artists’ Conference is intended to encourage and guide Catholic artists and patrons. The central theme and title of...
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“Behold the Bridegroom Cometh” - A Beautiful Chant for Julian Holy Week
This post has been updated with a more accurate description of the use of the chant in question, and a video posted yesterday of a live recording of it at the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Cathedral of St...
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Solemn Masses for Pentecost at Shreveport LA Cathedral, OF and EF
The Cathedral of St. John Berchmans in Shreveport, Louisiana, located at 939 Jordan Street, will have Masses with the music of William Byrd and Franz Schubert inter alios (the latter with an orchestra)...
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A Note on External Solemnities in the EF
Since the feast of the Ascension is coming up next week, it seems a good idea to address the following matter which was brought to my attention by a regular reader, regarding the concept of the...
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Sacred Choral Works and Other Liturgical Resources from Peter Kwasniewski
In addition to rescuing the forgotten treasures of our Catholic musical tradition from the dust-heap of history, our regular contributor Dr Peter Kwasniewski somehow finds the time to make his own...
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Our Lady of the Mount Anjara, Jordan - New Icons of the Mysteries of the...
It is funny how one story leads to another, or in this case two others. On my blog thewayofbeauty.org, I recently posted an article about my visit to the seminary of the Argentinian order Institute of...
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A Mozart Mass in Tribute to Mother Angelica
Join the Twin Cities Catholic Chorale for a tribute to Mother Angelica, a performance of Mozart’s Spatzenmesse during a Latin High Mass, at St. Agnes Parish in St. Paul, Minnsota, Sunday, May 8,...
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“The moment has come to normalize the situation of the Society”
In February of this year Fr. Franz Schmidberger, rector of the SSPX seminary in Zaitzkofen, Germany, wrote a short essay expressing his reasons, from a personal point of view, for members of the...
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Relic of the Curé d'Ars to Visit St Mary’s Church in Greenwich, Connecticut
St Mary’s Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, will host the relic of the incorruptible heart of St Jean-Marie Vianney, the patron Saint of parish priests, this coming week, from Tuesday May 3rd until...
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Ancient Churches in Northern Italy
Our Ambrosian correspondent Nicola de’ Grandi recently paid a visit to the archeological zone of Castelseprio, about 30 miles to the northwest of Milan. This was a Roman military outpost which became a...
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Happy Easter!
To all our fellow Christians who on this day celebrate the Lord’s Resurrection on the Julian Calendar, we wish a blessed and joyful Easter! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Христóсъ воскрéсе!The Resurrection; fresco in...
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