Forthcoming Issue of Sacred Music
Sacred Music vol. 143 no. 3 will soon be arriving in mailboxes. The articles contained therein are:Editorial Melisma by William MahrtArticlesShunning the Hermeneutic of Discontinuity and Rupture:...
View ArticleThe Scandal of the Missing Haloes! A Case of Chronic Halo-tosis?
Observant readers will have noticed that in a recent post, I showed an icon of the Transfiguration in which the three Apostles do not have haloes, both as they are led up to and down from the...
View ArticleEF Sung Mass for Immaculate Conception in British Columbia
Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, will have a Sung Latin Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Thursday December 8, at 7 p.m. The church is located at...
View ArticleFostering Young Vocations (Part 4)
And I will go unto the altar of God, to God who giveth joy to my youth.
View ArticleMelkite Liturgy on Campus of UC Berkeley, This Saturday 5pm
Fr Sebastian Carnazzo of St Elias Melkite Catholic Church, Los Gatos, California (http://www.steliasmelkite.org/), has instituted an Outreach Divine Liturgy on the campus of University of California,...
View ArticleThe Relics of St Andrew
In the traditional Roman Breviary, the life of St Andrew the Apostle ends with the statement that “When Pius II was Pope, his head was brought to Rome, and placed in the basilica of St Peter.” This...
View ArticleWonderful New Icons by Maxim Sheshukov
Thanks to the Orthodox Arts Journal for bringing to my notice the icons of contemporary Russian icon painter, Maxim Sheshukov.Here is a modern style that works within the icongraphic prototype. I...
View ArticleSolemn High Mass with Monks of Norcia at Wyoming Catholic College for the...
On November 30, the students, faculty, and staff of Wyoming Catholic College enjoyed the privilege of hosting a visit from two of the monks of the monastery of Norcia, Fr. Benedict Nivakoff, the Prior,...
View Article“Fisher of Men” - A Paulist Vocation Video from the 1960s
Here’s an interesting thing which a friend pointed out to me, a vocation video from the Paulist Fathers. Their Youtube account describes it as from the early 1960s, but I think it must just a bit...
View ArticleBook Notice: St. Thomas Aquinas's Commentary on Job
Back in November 2013, I offered NLM readers an update on the progress of the Aquinas Institute's massive project of producing a first-ever complete bilingual (Latin/English) hardcover edition of the...
View ArticleA First Mass in Ireland
Thanks to our friend Mr John Briody for sending in these photos of the First Mass of Canon John O’Connor of the Institute of Christ the King, celebrated this past Sunday at St. Kevin’s Church,...
View ArticleAd Orientem - How’s It Going?
Two weeks ago, I received the following message from a priest friend who runs two parishes: “Today was the last Sunday with versus populum Novus Ordo Masses at our parishes ... . From next week on, all...
View ArticleCatholic Artist Society Lecture, Dec. 10 in NYC, with Jennifer Donelson
Here is a talk that cuts right to heart of what Catholic education is about. The New Liturgical Movement’s own Jennifer Donelson is giving the next Catholic Artists Society lecture in New York City on...
View ArticleWhere Can “Mutual Enrichment” Really Take Us?
The reason liberals hate Summorum Pontificum is that they understand perfectly well that the revival of the old liturgy constitutes a challenge to key principles behind the liturgical reform and to...
View ArticleEF Mass and '24 Hours for the Lord' at St Stephen's, Portland, OR - December...
St Stephen’s parish in Portland, Oregon, is hosting a 24 Hours for the Lord as an Advent penance service, beginning at 6 pm on Friday the 9th with supper, followed by all-night adoration, and an EF...
View ArticlePlease! A Simple Version of the Anglican Ordinariate Office for Lay People
Here is a both a request and proposal for the Anglican Ordinariate, if I may be so bold.Can you produce a version that can be reduced to a short booklet containing the Psalter and the unchanging...
View ArticleVideo of the Installation of a Boy-Bishop
The archives of British Pathé never fail to turn up all kinds of interesting things; here is a video of the installation of a boy bishop at a small church in England on St Nicholas’ day in 1935.From...
View ArticleArt Commentaries and Essays on the Blessed Virgin: A New Book by Fr Michael...
I am delighted to hear that a book containing essays and art commentaries by the late Fr Michael Morris will be released on December 8th. It is published by Magnificat, for whom he wrote for many...
View ArticleImmaculate Conception Mass Announcements: Palo Alto and Philadelphia
The St. Ann Choir will sing the Latin Mass for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, Thursday, December 8, 2016, at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Palo Alto, California, (751 Waverly St. at Homer)...
View ArticlePhotopost Request : Immaculate Conception 2016
Our next major photopost will be for tomorrow’s feast of the Immaculate Conception. Please send your photos (whether of the Ordinary or Extraordinary Form) to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org for...
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