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Looking for Accessible English Polyphony? Check Out English Motets for the...
Every choir director knows the problem. You have a number of people of good will but they are not music majors or professional singers. They need to hear their part many times before they get it. And...
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The Feasts of St Lawrence (Reprint from 2011)
This article was originally published on the feast of St Lawrence five years ago. I have made a number of small changes and corrected a small factual error.Since the earliest times, St Lawrence has...
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Guest Article — Monasterboice and the Grace of the Divine Office
Monasterboice and the Grace of the Divine OfficeClarissa KwasniewskiWe went to Ireland. . . . No, we did not go to Ireland . . . we went to Heaven. We kept going to Heaven, we were invited again and...
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Miracles of St Clare of Assisi
St Clare died on this day in the year 1253 at the age of 59. The pope at the time, Alexander IV, had known her personally for many years, and had even come with his court to the church of San Damiano...
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Photopost Request: Assumption 2016
Our next major photopost will be for the feast of the Assumption, this coming Monday, August 15th; please send your photos (whether of the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form) to...
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Bp. Caggiano Presides at St. Mary's Feast
The Patronal Feast of St. Mary's Church in Norwalk, Connecticut, will be celebrated with more than the usual solemnity, pomp and fun this Sunday afternoon, as the Most Rev. Frank Caggiano, Bishop of...
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Pontifical Vespers and Confirmations at the Fota Conference
The annual Fota Liturgical Conference in Cork, Ireland, is not only an important scholarly gathering, but includes a number of ceremonies celebrated at the highest level of our Catholic liturgical...
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A Dominican Mass in the Philippines
Our thanks to Mr Maurice Joseph Almadrones for sharing with us these photos of a Dominican Rite Mass celebrated in Manila by our ow Fr. Lawrence Lew, O.P, at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in Quezon City....
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The Feast of the Assumption 2016
When thou departed to Him Who was born of thee ineffably, o Virgin Mother of God, there were present James, the brother of God and first hierarch, and Peter, the honored head and leader of theologians,...
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Mater Ecclesiae Assumption Mass
The 16th Annual Assumption Mass, sponsored by Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, New Jersey, will take place at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, located at Logan Circle in Philadelphia, at 7:00...
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The 50th Anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s Sacrificium Laudis
There are a number of papal documents that seem utterly bizarre to read nowadays because of our retrospective knowledge of how totally and absolutely they were ignored and contradicted after their...
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Assumption Photopost Request
We will be doing a photopost for today's Feast of the Assumption. Please send your photos to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org by Wednesday evening for inclusion. Photos could include Masses in...
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The Sculpture of Thomas Marsh
I recently read an interview of with Catholic sculptor Thomas Marsh recently, and was thrilled to be introduced to his work. The interview is by Dr Carrie Gress and you can read it here.As he tells Dr...
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A Wedding According to the Philippine Rituale
The Church has always embraced a wide variety of proper customs and rituals attached to the celebration of the Sacrament of Matrimony; as we have noted previously, the Philippine Islands has preserved...
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Postscript to Yesterday's Post: Sketches of Thomas Marsh's Rosary Walk
Thomas Marsh, the sculptor, was kind enough to get in touch with me to tell me a little more about the Rosary Walk referred to in yesterday's post about his work. He even sent me some sketches he has...
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Society for Catholic Liturgy Conference 2016 - Los Angeles Cathedral - Sept...
The Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce its 2016 annual conference, to be held at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles.September 29 – October 1, 2016www.liturgysociety.orgWe...
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American Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer Make Perpetual Vows
Two days ago, on the feast of the Assumption, two American members of the Sons of the Divine Redeemer, Brothers Peter Mary (on the left in the first photo) and Seelos Maria (on the right), made their...
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Polyphony Summer School in Ireland
We choir directors have a duty to pass on the REAL treasures of church music to the next generation ... and impart the musical skills which will enable them to continue this wonderful tradition... It...
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St Sebaldus of Nuremberg
Today is the feast day of St Sebaldus, a rather obscure character who lived as a hermit in a forest west of Nuremburg, in the Franconia region of south central Germany. Various versions of his life put...
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Providence Diocese Soon to Have Another Parish Offering TLM Every Sunday
Solemn Mass, Feast of the Assumption, 2014Holy Ghost Church, Tiverton, R.I.For many years, the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus in Providence, Rhode Island, has offered Holy Mass in both the ordinary...
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