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Byzantine New Year
Although the First Sunday of Advent is generally considered the start of the liturgical year in the Roman Rite, this is purely a matter of logic and convention, and is in no way formally indicated in...
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How Michelangelo Influenced Caravaggio
I reproduce here the latest in a developing series of blog posts which are appearing on Beauty of Catholicism website by Martinho Correia, about the work of Michelangelo and Caravaggio.He calls it The...
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Video of a Greek-Catholic Episcopal Ordination
I just happened to stumble across this video of the episcopal ordination of Giorgio Demetrio Gallaro, eparch of the Greek-Catholic community in Piana degli Albanesi in Sicily. This took place on June...
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Men's Holy League, St Stephen's Catholic Church, Portland, Oregon; Wed,...
Thanks to Shawn Nola and Fr Eric Andersen for sending me details of another Men’s Holy League, this time on the West Coast. www.holyleague.comUnder the patronage of Cardinal Burke, the mission of the...
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Music from the Book of Job
When Job heard the words of the messengers, he suffered it patiently, and said: If we have received good from the hand of the Lord, why should we not receive evil? In all these things, Job did not sin...
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Completing the Gothic Aesthetic of a Parish Church
Sometimes at NLM we feature the work of new artists and architects doing projects from scratch. At other times we have featured marvelous examples of renovations that have undone some or all of the...
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An Answer to a Mystery in the Lindisfarne Gospels...Perhaps
Some time ago I wrote a piece about the St Matthew of the Lindisfarne Gospels, which was painted by one Brother Eadrith in the 8th century.At the time, I was unsure as to who the figure peeping from...
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An Excellent New Video on Ad Orientem Worship
I think our readers will all find this video of interest, and perhaps worth sharing with people they know who may not be convinced of the virtues of celebrating Mass ad orientem. Among those who here...
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Three Fascinating New Books from Angelico Press
Angelico Press continues to build its empire as the premiere publisher of imaginative and intellectually rigorous traditional Catholic books, both new titles and reprints of old ones. (If you go...
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Pilgrimage in Honor of Our Lady This Saturday in Wisconsin
The Romanian Greek-Catholic Monastery of the Holy Resurrection, located at 300 S. 2nd Avenue in St Nazianz, Wisconsin, will have its annual pilgrimage in honor of Our Lady, Searcher for the Lost, this...
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Photopost Request: Birth of the Virgin Mary and Exaltation of the Cross 2016
Our next major photopost will be for both the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, which is celebrated tomorrow, and the Exaltation of the Cross, this coming Wednesday, September 14th; please send your photos...
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Bishop Morlino to Switch to Ad Orientem in His Cathedral
In October, I will start to offer the 11am Mass at the Cathedral Parish ad orientem.”His Excellency Bishop Robert Morlino of the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin, announced that beginning in October, his...
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The Nativity of the Virgin Mary 2016
Look, o man, up the counsel of God, know the counsel of wisdom, the counsel of holiness. When He was to water the ground with heavenly dew, first He poured it upon the whole fleece (Judges 6, 37-40);...
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Traditional Ordinations to Take Place in England Next Year
The Catholic Herald reported yesterday that ordinations will be celebrated in the traditional rite on June 17th of next year at the Fraternity of St Peter’s church in Warrington, England, St Mary’s...
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Glagolitic Mass Celebrated in Zagreb, Croatia
As some of our readers may remember from previous articles, there was a long-standing custom in parts of Croatia that the Roman Rite be celebrated in the Croatian recension of Old Church Slavonic,...
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Nothing Superfluous — A Masterful Spiritual Guide to the Traditional Mass
Nothing Superfluous: An Explanation of the Symbolism of the Rite of St. Gregory the Great [i.e., the traditional Latin Mass]. By the Rev. James W. Jackson, FSSP. Lincoln, NE: Redbrush, 2016. $17.95....
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New Catholic University Aims to Renew Culture of Beauty
The following press release comes to us from Pontifex University, and is reproduced from their website.Pontifex University offers a unique approach to higher Catholic education by forming students in...
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Juventutem at WYD Krakow - Official Report
The Juventutem International Federation has just recently published on its website an official report of their participation in the World Youth Day held in Krakow, Poland from July 26th-31st, written...
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A Call for Papers on “Music: Its Theologies and Spiritualities—A Global...
The online journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions) is currently running a Special Issue titled “Music: Its Theologies and Spiritualities—A Global Perspective”, which...
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Card. Levada to Preach at Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage Mass in St Peter’s
From the Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum:On the ninth anniversary of the entry into force of Pope Benedict’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, we are glad to announce the participation of...
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