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Trucks, Trees, and Missalettes
Infographics from giamusic.comThe suburban parish where I serve has just received renewal notices in the mail for our hymnal-missalette subscription. Would we like to renew for next year, with a 10%...
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St Martha Kills a Dragon
At that time, there was in a certain grove by the Rhone, between Arles and Avignon, a dragon, half beast and half fish, bigger than a cow, longer than a horse, having teeth like swords that were as...
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A Virtual Reconstruction of the Old St Peter’s Basilica
I just stumbled across this very interesting video, which gives a virtual reconstruction of the Constantinian Basilica of St Peter in the Vatican, as it would have been roughly at the end of the first...
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An EF Requiem Mass for Fr Jacques Hamel
Yesterday, the Fraternity of St Joseph the Guardian celebrated a Requiem Mass for Fr Jacques Hamel in their church in La-Londe-Les-Maures, France. I am sure all our readers know that Fr Hamel, an...
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NLM’s 11th Anniversary
Today is the eleventh anniversary of the New Liturgical Movement, and the first time I celebrate this anniversary as editor. We cannot let the day pass without a word of thanks to our founder Shawn...
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What Makes a Family Holy?
If the goal of the individual Christian is to become a saint, the goal of a married Christian couple is to become saints together, with one another’s aid, and the goal of a Christian family is to...
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Chartres Cathedral and the Liberal Arts Personified, by Carrie Gress
Here is an interesting nugget of a blog post by Carrie Gress, which first appeared on the blog Beauty of Catholicism. (blog.pontifex.university.)In it, she contrasts a traditional approach to...
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Pope Appoints Commission to Study Matter Exhaustively Studied by Earlier...
I suspect most of our readers have already seen elsewhere that the Holy See has announced the formation of a commission to study the question of women deacons. A member of Fr Zuhlsdorf’s commentariat...
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Radio Maria Interview with Dom Alcuin Reid
The American branch of Radio Maria has posted an excellent interview with Dom Alcuin Reid, in which he discusses inter alia Cardinal Robert Sarah’s keynote address at the recent Sacra Liturgia...
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Mother Angelica’s Funeral Mass, the Triumph of Latin, Chant, and Ad Orientem...
This guest article comes to us from writer Roseanne Sullivan, who has shared other items with us previously, for this interesting article which, as she writes below “vividly illustrates some pervasive...
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Eparchy Created for Syro-Malabar Catholics in Great Britain
The following is a press release from the Roman Catholic diocese of Lancaster.At noon on 28 July 2016, the Vatican announced the news that His Holiness Pope Francis has formally established a new...
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Dominican Rite Mass in Youngstown, Ohio, August 19
To commemorate the 800th anniversary of the Dominican Order, St Dominic’s Church in Youngstown, Ohio, has celebrated a special series of Masses in the traditional Dominican rite. The last of these will...
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The History, Development and Symbolism of the Antependium, Altar Frontal, or...
This article by Shawn Tribe was originally published in October of 2008, and republished in 2013. He and I recently noticed that all of the photographs, which were originally linked from an external...
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Tempo: What's the right pace for liturgy?
We’ve all been there, in those academic lectures that turn into unattended monologues, peppered with dust motes and baked in slow afternoon light. The head bobs, and water leaks from the eyes into the...
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The Dedication of St Mary Major 2016
The Roman basilica of Saint Mary Major, whose dedication is celebrated today, is also known by several other titles, among them, “the Liberian Basilica”, after its putative founder, Pope Liberius...
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A Byzantine Combination Breviary and Hand-Missal
I fully realize that the terms “breviary” and “hand-missal” are not the proper name for this liturgical book, of which I was lucky enough to recently acquire a copy. In Greek it is called Συνέκδημος...
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The Psalms of the Transfiguration
The feast of the Transfiguration was adopted into the Roman Rite from the Byzantine in the reign of Pope Callixtus III (1455-58), in thanksgiving for the Christian victory against the Turks at the...
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Book Sale - Chant, Liturgy, Liturgical Arts, Rare Historic Items
This sale includes books in the areas of chant, liturgy, and theology, as well as some rare historic items. Several are in German and Latin. Many are out-of-print. I will start with a list of titles,...
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ICC Workshop on the Prayer Life Described in the Little Oratory Book
I have written in the past about the Institute of Catholic Culture instituteofcatholicculture.org/ and the great work it is doing. It is worth mentioning the ICC again, if only to bring to your...
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Miracles: A new film from St Anthony Communications
A new film has been released by St Anthony Communications. Available on DVD, the film is presented by Fr Marcus Holden and Fr Andrew Pinsent and also features Jamie and Joanna Bogle. From the DVD: What...
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