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Dostoyevsky on Prayer for the Dead
Young man, be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that...
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The Feast of All Saints 2016 - The Patriarchs and Prophets
From the Breviary according to the use of the Roman Curia, 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the seventh day in the Octave of All Saints. In like manner, brethren, let us look upon the...
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The Feast of All Saints 2016 - The Apostles
From the Breviary according to the use of the Roman Curia, 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the seventh day in the Octave of All Saints.After (the Patriarchs and Prophets) follows the venerable...
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All Saints and All Souls Photopost 2016
As always, we wish to thank all of our readers who sent in these photos of liturgies celebrated on the Feast of All Saints and the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed. There are a number of...
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Book Review: T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy
T&T Clark Companion to Liturgy. Ed. Alcuin Reid. London/New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2016. 561 + xix. $166.84 (at Amazon; see here for the publisher’s page).I was having a conversation with...
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The Feast of All Saints 2016 - The Martyrs
From the Breviary according to the use of the Roman Curia, 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the seventh day in the Octave of All Saints.The reddened drops of sweat that came forth from all of...
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Should It Be Curtains for the Rood Screen?
I hope so! But in a good way. Two commentators have brought to my notice the fact that there were probably curtains on the rood screen. As one reader, DW, noted (you know who you are!):If you consult...
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Dominican Rite Calendar for 2017 Available
I am pleased to announce that the Dominican Rite Calendar for 2017 is now available on the left sidebar at Dominican Liturgy. You can now download it at the link called "Dominican Rite Calendar 2017."...
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The Octave of All Saints 2016
From the Breviary according to the use of the Roman Curia, 1529, the conclusion of the sermon for the seventh day in the Octave of All Saints.Into these joys of the heavenly fatherland shall enter all...
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Eucharistic Procession for All Saints and Mass for All Souls at Wyoming...
This past November 1, the students of Wyoming Catholic College organized a beautiful Eucharistic Procession through the downtown of the city of Lander and up to the parish church of Holy Rosary (where...
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CMAA Sacred Music Workshop for Winter 2017
The Church Music Association of America will hold its Winter 2017 Sacred Music Workshop in Birmingham, Alabama, from January 2 to the 6th. This five-day workshop offers participants the opportunity to...
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In Memoriam: Norcia's Co-Cathedral and Madonna Addolorata
The co-cathedral of Norcia (no longer with us)A week ago, I spoke of the Basilica in Norcia and how much we will miss it. (If this is true even for laypeople who visit only now and again, how much more...
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Thomas Aquinas on the Rite of Mass: Lecture Coming Up in NYC
On Saturday, December 3, at the Catholic Center at New York University, Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P. will give a set of lectures titled: “The Rest is Said in Praise to God: Thomas Aquinas on the Rites of...
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First Weeks of St Joseph Oratory, Detroit
One of our regular readers and guest contributors, Teresa Chisholm, has sent in a bit of good news from Detroit about the new ICK Oratory getting off the ground there. “In the first three weeks of...
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Tradition is for the Young
Many years ago, I read an interview with a famous “dissenting” theologian, as they are sometimes euphemistically called, (one who has now passed to his reward, and shall therefore remain nameless), in...
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Is Traditionalism a Spiritual Malady?
Judging from the number of readers and comments, my article from a while back, “On Needlessly Problematizing Our Situation,” seems to have struck a nerve. One commenter in particular raised what I...
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Can Small-Scale Illumination Be Adapted for Large-Scale Liturgical Art?
In response to a recent article in which I proposed the English Gothic style of the School of St Albans as a possible model for today, one reader asked what I felt was a perceptive question. He...
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Catholic Artists Society Lecture in New York, November 19
The Catholic Artists Society is presenting a lecture by James Patrick Reid, T.O.P., entitled “Art and Transformation.” The presentation demonstrates, through the examination of paintings by Giotto,...
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EF Confirmations in Ireland and England
We have recently received photos of two different EF Confirmation ceremonies, one from Ireland and one from England. On Tuesday, November 3, His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke conferred the Sacrament...
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Tradition is for the Young (Part 2)
On Saturday, the church of the Immaculate Heart in Glasgow hosted the Una Voce Scotland annual Requiem Mass and general meeting. The Solemn Mass was offered by Fr Ninian Doohan (whose ordination we...
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