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Fota IX Liturgy Conference Program: July 9-11, 2016
The St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy has announced the program for the Fota IX International Liturgy Conference, which will be held at the Clarion Hotel, in Cork City, Ireland from July 9-11,...
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Sacra Liturgia UK Just Two Weeks Away
Sacra Liturgia UK opens in just over two weeks. Thus far, registered participants will be coming to London from over fifteen different countries throughout the world to meet each other and to study and...
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Ugly Churches Win Awards
The website of the Italian Episcopal Conference’s newspaper Avvenirereported Wednesday on the winners of the 6th edition of the International “Frate Sole” prize for sacred architecture. I would...
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Information About Cerecloths
In response to a reader’s request about where to get a cerecloth, the waxed linen cloth which traditionally goes under the altar-cloths, a few suggestions were given in the combox on the original post....
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“The Virgin Mary in Liturgy, Literature and Life” - Conference in France with...
Chavagnes International College, a Catholic boarding school for boys located in Chavagnes-en-Paillers in western France (near Nantes), will host a conference entitled “The Virgin Mary in Liturgy,...
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Classics of the Liturgical Movement: Dom Pius de Hemptinne
Readers of the works of Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B., know firsthand the riches he spreads before us — a veritable banquet of the mystical life, rooted in Sacred Scripture and the Church’s...
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Modern Russian Iconographers Who Break the Rules but Conform to the Principles
Thanks to Gina Switzer (an artist whose decorated Easter candles have been featured on the NLM to great interest) for drawing my attention to this write-up in the Orthodox Arts Journal of an exhibition...
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FSSP Ordinations in Auxerre Cathedral
The website of the Fraternity of St Peter’s European seminary at Wigratzbad, Germany, has posted photographs of the priestly ordinations held this past Saturday in the cathedral of Auxerre, France. His...
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Previously Unavailable - The Unabridged Version of Cardinal Sarah's Sacra...
Sacra Liturgia has now published the full version of the paper that Cardinal Sarah delivered at his inaugural address at Sacra Liturgia 2016. He did not have time to deliver the full text on the day,...
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Liturgical Form Manifested in the Mundane - the Famous K2 Telephone Box
I recently visited the OQ Farm near Woodstock in rural Vermont. It is a retreat center which is connected to The Sword and Spoon Foundation, an ecumenical group interested in promoting a Christian...
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EF Pontifical and Two Processions on the Feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel, NJ...
On Saturday, July 16, starting at 12 noon, the Most Reverend Arthur J. Serratelli, Bishop of Paterson, New Jersey, will celebrate an EF Pontifical Mass for the patronal feast day at the Church of Our...
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A Personal Note of Thanks
I recently attended the ninth edition of the Fota International Liturgical Conference in Cork, Ireland, which is organized each year by the St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy. The theme of the...
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Alcuin Reid Interview on Cardinal Sarah and Sacra Liturgia
Catholic World Report has published an excellent interview with Dom Alcuin Reid, in which inter alia he discusses some of the issues that have arisen from Cardinal Robert Sarah’s proposal, made during...
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A Liturgical Rarity: Asterisks from Portugal
Mr Marco da Vinha, author of the blog Alma Bracarense about the Use of Braga, sent in some pictures of asterisks from three different Portuguese cathedrals, Braga, Lisbon, and Bragança. In the...
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Feast of St. Mary Magdalene at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, NYC
In honor of Pope Francis’s decision to elevate the liturgical rank of St. Mary Magdalene, the Parish of St. Vincent Ferrer and St. Catherine of Siena will host an “Hour of Mercy” and sung Mass for her...
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Fr Hunwicke Weighs In on the Ad Orientem Controversy
Everyone who is interested in the ongoing controversy over Cardinal Sarah’s proposal to begin celebrating ad orientem more generally should betake himself to Fr Hunwicke. The immediate controversy is,...
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“Their Sound Is Gone Out” - The Division of the Apostles
July 15th is the traditional day for the feast known as the “Divisio Apostolorum – the Division (or ‘Dispersion’) of the Apostles”, a feast which was very popular in the Middle Ages, and continued into...
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Patrem Omnipotentem
A leading German theologian was discoursing in learned and abstract fashion on the omnipotence of God when an Ethiopian metropolitan, with huge beard, a kind of black pancake of a headdress and several...
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More Excellent Music from the Fota Liturgical Conference
Dr Ite O’Donovan, the director of the Dublin-based Lassus Scholars, has posted some more videos of the music for the Pontifical High Mass celebrated by Cardinal Raymond Burke for the ninth annual Fota...
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A Reader Laments the Lack of Attention to “Externals” in the Liturgy
A regular NLM reader sent in this letter some weeks ago; it is reproduced below with the author’s permission.***Men being ordained to the Sacred Priesthood in the traditional Roman Rite (2016)I enjoyed...
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