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In Memory of Mons. Angelo Amodeo
Today marks the fourth anniversary of the passing of Monsignor Angelo Amodeo, a canon of the cathedral of Milan who dedicated much of his life to preserving the traditional Ambrosian liturgy, and the...
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Music for the Exaltation of the Cross
O Crux, splendidior cunctis astris, mundo celebris, hominibus multum amabilis, sanctior universis: quae sola fuisti digna portare talentum mundi: dulce lignum, dulces clavos, dulcia ferens pondera:...
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Regular Sunday Vespers with the Dominicans in Manhattan
The Dominican parish of Ss Vincent Ferrer and Catherine of Siena in New York City is beginning an excellent new initiative to promote what should be one of the most important aspects of the Catholic...
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Liturgical Notes on The Feasts of the Seven Sorrows
From 1814 until 1960, the General Calendar of the Roman Rite contained two different feasts of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary. The older of these is the one long celebrated on the Friday of...
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Rubrics for Dominican Mass after 1962
I have been asked to summarize the use of the Gloria and Credo at Mass in the Dominican Rite according to the rubrcs in force in 1962. This means under the new ranking system of feasts and the new...
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Italian Greek-Catholics Celebrate the Exaltation of the Cross
In the Byzantine Rite, the Exaltation of the Precious And Life-Giving Cross is one of the twelve Great Feasts, as they are called, celebrated with a fore-feast and after-feast, roughly the equivalent...
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Candlelight Missa Cantata at Wyoming Catholic College for the Seven Sorrows...
In honor of the feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a candlelight Missa cantata was celebrated last night at Wyoming Catholic College. The collegiate Schola sang the Propers of the...
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Votive Mass of San Gennaro Saturday
The month-long feast of San Gennaro in New York City's Little Italy is an iconic representation of the cultures Catholic immigrants brought from their native lands to the New World. Unfortunately, this...
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Pre-Tridentine Ambrosian Breviary Online
Here is a very important discovery in the department of online liturgical resources: an Ambrosian Breviary printed at Venice in 1539 from archive.org. A couple of pages at the beginning are damaged,...
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Other Miracles of St Januarius
Today is the feast of St Januarius, who is also widely known by the Italian form of his name “San Gennaro”, as emigrants from Naples, of which he is the principle Patron, have brought devotion to him...
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Reclaiming St. Josemaría Escrivá for the New Liturgical Movement
St. Josemaría Escrivá (1902-1975), the founder of Opus Dei, celebrated the traditional Latin Mass all his life as a priest. He had mystical experiences in connection with it. He loved it so much that...
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Juventutem Event in DC for the Feast of the Rosary
If you are in the vicinity of Washington, D.C. you may be interested in this event organised by ‘Juventutem DC.’ There will be a Low Mass in the Dominican rite at the Lourdes chapel in the Basilica of...
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How an Artist Creates the Illusion of Depth with Paint Alone
In good sacred art, even the look of the negative space around the figures is carefully controlled by the artist.The iconographic tradition portrays the heavenly realm, which is outside time, and...
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Upcoming TLM Events in Seoul, South Korea
The Traditional Latin Mass Community in Seoul, South Korea, has asked us to announce that on the weekend of October 1-2, they will host a special series of events with a visiting priest, including a...
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Guadalupe Chasuble Ex Voto
In thanksgiving to God on the fifth anniversary of my Ordination to the Priesthood, I celebrated a Low Mass in the Dominican rite. The vestment worn for the first time on this occasion, at a Saturday...
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Historical Recreation of a 15th Century Mass
Ben stumbled across this very interesting video which was published a bit less than two weeks ago, an historical reenactment of Mass as would it have been celebrated in a parish church in Sweden on...
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Ambrosian Solemn Mass for the Exaltation of the Cross
Last Wednesday, the church of Santa Maria della Consolazione in Milan welcomed Mons. Luigi Magnanini, emeritus Archpriest of the Cathedral Chapter, for a Solemn Mass in the traditional Ambrosian Rite...
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Thomas Merton on the Liturgical Reform
The Religion and Ethics section of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s website has posted a very interesting article by Gregory K Hillis, an Associate Professor of Theology at Bellarmine Univ.,...
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Eucharistic Procession in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 8
The Holy Name Society of St. Antoninus Parish in Cincinnati, Ohio, together with the Community-in-Formation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in Cincinnati and Old St. Mary’s Church will hold a men’s...
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A Great New Recording of the Requiem Chants
For some years, Massachusetts-based hymn expert Peter Meggison has been working to keep classic devotional hymns alive by commissioning new recordings of them. Having made over a dozen sessions with...
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