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Pentecost Tuesday 2016
The perennial wisdom of St Augustine, from the homily on the Gospel of Pentecost Tuesday (John 10, 1-10) in the Breviary of St Pius V.“In today’s reading, the Lord set forth a similitude about His...
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Fota IX Speakers and Topics Announced
St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce a list of speakers and topics for the Fota IX International Liturgy Conference to be held in Cork, Ireland, July 9-11, 2016, on the...
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Pentecost Mass on the Chartres Pilgrimage
The annual Chartres Pilgrimage, which our founding editor Shawn Tribe wrote about earlier this week, departs from Notre-Dame de Paris on Saturday, the vigil of Pentecost, and arrives at Notre-Dame de...
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Ember Wednesday of Pentecost 2016
The late 12th-century liturgical commentator Sicard of Cremona explains the texts of the Mass of Ember Wednesday in the Octave of Pentecost, and why the summer Ember Day fasts are united to the...
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Solemn Mass of Corpus Christi in SE Massachusetts
The Catholic faithful in southeastern Massachusetts will have two opportunities of celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi in the older, traditional Roman Rite. Solemn Mass will be offered at Good...
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An Old Parisian Sequence for Thursday in the Octave of Pentecost (Reprint)
This article by Henri de Villiers was originally published in 2014.While in the use of Rome, the prose Veni, Sancte Spiritus is sung on the day of Pentecost and at all the Masses within the octave, the...
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Liturgical Items Restored in Italy
Our Ambrosian correspondent Nicola de’ Grandi provided these photos from a show currently going on at the Gallerie d’Italia in the Piazza della Scala of his native city of Milan. “La Bellezza Ritrovata...
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Ember Friday of Pentecost 2016
Introitus Ps 70 Repleátur os meum laude tua, allelúia: ut possim cantáre, allelúia: gaudébunt labia mea, dum cantávero tibi, allelúia, allelúia. Ps. In te, Dómine, sperávi, non confundar in aeternum:...
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Ember Saturday of Pentecost 2016
The medieval liturgical commentator William Durandus, writing at the end of the 13th century, explains some of the richness of one of the year’s most beautiful and complex Masses, that of the Ember...
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Pentecost Photopost 2016 - Part 1
As always, we wish to thank all our readers who sent in pictures of their Pentecost liturgies from all over the world. We received enough this year that I thought it best to split them up into two...
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Pentecost Photopost 2016 - Part 2
Here is the second part of our Pentecost photopost, as always, with our thanks to the readers who sent them in. Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary - Legnano, ItalyMass in the Ambrosian Rite; as...
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Corpus Christi at Holy Innocents in New York City
The Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City will hold a Solemn Mass for the Feast of Corpus Christi, followed by an outdoor procession in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, May 26, 2016, starting at...
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Worthily Celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Outdoors
Now that we (at least in the Northern Hemisphere) are on the verge of summer and all the outdoor activities and traveling it makes possible, it seems worthwhile to discuss the phenomenon of outdoor...
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Upcoming Lecture and Solemn Mass in NYC: “Musical Life of English Catholics...
The Society of St Hugh of Cluny is sponsoring an event in New York City, (details in poster below), which will explore the riches of English Catholic musical and religious culture under the Tudors. The...
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A Pattern for Catholic Education that Places the Liturgy at Its Heart
When I decided I wanted to be an artist, I started to investigate the training that was traditionally given to artists in the past. This involved the study of a number of things: how the skills of arts...
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Pontifical Vespers in Copenhagen, Denmark
On May 7, Solemn Pontifical Vespers in the usus antiquior were celebrated for the first time in Scandinavia since the liturgical reforms. Bishop Czeslaw Kozon of Copenhagen celebrated First Vespers for...
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EF Corpus Christi in Philadelphia
The Cathedral Basilica of Ss Peter and Paul, located at 1732 Race St. in Philadelphia, will have an EF Mass tomorrow for the feast of Corpus Christ, starting at 7 pm, and followed by a Eucharist...
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Choral Vespers and Benediction This Sunday in Houston
Annunciation Catholic Church in Houston, Texas, will celebrate Vespers and Benediction in the Extraordinary Form this coming Sunday, May 29th, starting at 7 p.m., with choral works of Messiaen,...
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Corpus Christi in Berlin, New Jersey
For the 16th consecutive year, at Mater Ecclesiae, where the Extraordinary Form is celebrated exclusively every day, there will be a Solemn Mass and Procession for the Feast of Corpus Christi on...
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A May Procession in Ireland
Thanks to Mr John Briody for sending in these photographs of a May Procession (followed by Benediction) held in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary at St Kevin’s Church in Dublin, Ireland, home of the...
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