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A Proper Hymn for St Anthony the Abbot
Here is an interesting and very typically medieval hymn for the feast of St Anthony the Abbot, composed in the 14th century. I stumbled across this in the Breviary according to the Use of Passau,...
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More Earthquakes in Italy - The Monks are Safe
Central Italy was rocked by earthquakes once again today, three of them within an hour. The first took place at 10:25 a.m. local time, 5.1 on the Richter scale, the second at 11:14, a 5.4, and the...
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Dominican Rite Candlemas in Youngstown, Ohio
St. Dominic’s Church in Youngstown, Ohio, will have the blessing of candles, procession and sung Mass in the Dominican Rite on the feast of the Purification, Thursday, February 2, starting at at 7 p.m....
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The Two Feasts of St Peter’s Chair
The feast of St Peter’s Chair was originally kept on one of two dates. Some sources, going back to the fourth century, attest to it on January 18th, among them, an ancient Martyrology formerly...
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Latin and the Latin Mass in Singapore
A regular reader from Singapore brought to my attention this article from the Straits Times (named for the strait that separates the island from the Malay Peninsula) about the TLM community there, and...
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Tradition is for the Young (Part 5) : More from the FSSP’s German Seminary
On Sunday, I published some photos of the Fraternity of St Peter’s German seminary visiting Buxheim Charterhouse, and celebrating Mass there for the feast of the Immaculate Conception. That same day,...
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Ordinariate Evensong in the Philadelphia Area
On Friday, February 3rd, at 8 p.m., the church of St John the Baptist in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania, a parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter, will begin a series of celebrations of...
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Blessing of the Waters on Julian Epiphany
Yesterday was the feast of the Holy Theophany on the Julian Calendar, the commemoration of the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan. It is a tradition of the Byzantine Rite to bless not just water in...
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Ignatian Retreat in Allentown, NJ, Feb. 17-19
Father Carlos Hamel of the Fraternity of Saint Joseph the Guardian will preach a retreat based on the Ignatian Exercises, at the church of Saint John the Baptist, 1282 Yardville-Allentown Road,...
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The “Apocrypha” and the Liturgy
At yesterday’s presidential inauguration, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, read as a prayer a selection of verses from the ninth chapter of the Book of Wisdom. In the original, this...
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The Fixity of Liturgical Forms as an Incentive to Prayer and Lectio Divina
Catholics who assist at the traditional liturgy of the Church quickly come to love one monumental fact about it: its stability, regularity, constancy. With a few exceptions due to local calendars or...
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My Own Meeting With Fr Joe, the Man Who Saved Tony Hendra’s Soul
My last posting was about a monastic chant forum at Quarr Abbey on the Isle of Wight, which of course I encourage you again to attend! This reminded my of my own visits to Quarr in the years just after...
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The Chapel of St Theodelinda at Monza Cathedral
This past Sunday, January 22, was the feast of St Theodolinda, queen of the Lombards, who died in the year 627. A daughter of the duke of Bavaria, she was married in 589 to the Lombard King Authari....
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Melkite Divine Liturgy, This Saturday at 5pm, in Berkeley, CA - Chants Now...
At 5pm this Saturday (1/28), there will be a celebration of the Divine Liturgy at Gesu Chapel of the Jesuit School of Theology, located at 1735 Le Roy Ave., Berkeley, California. Dinner will provided...
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Sacra Liturgia This Summer: Conference in Milan, and Summer School
Sacra Liturgia has announced its major activities for this coming summer, a conference to be held in June in Milan, from June 6-9, and the annual liturgical summer school, from August 5-17.The...
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Review of Index Lectionum by Roseanne Sullivan
This article was originally published in Homiletic and Pastoral Review (http://www.hprweb.com/2017/01/index-lectionum-scripture-usage-in-roman-catholic-masses-before-and-after-vatican-ii) on January...
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Why Does Facing Ad Orientem Matter Ecumenically? - Guest Article by Prof....
Our thanks to Dr Ines Murzaku, Professor of Church History at Seton Hall Univerity, for sharing this article with us.The theme for this year’s Week for Christian Unity (January 18-25) is...
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The Feast of St Polycarp
Among the group of early Christian writers known as the Apostolic Fathers, St Polycarp, whose feast is kept today on the traditional Roman calendar, is the one about whom we know the most. He was a...
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Monza Cathedral
As a follow-up on Tuesday’s post about the chapel of St Theodelinda in the Cathedral of Monza, Italy, here are some photos of the cathedral itself, also taken by Nicola de’ Grandi. Like many Italian...
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Actual Apocrypha in the Liturgy
This article is a follow-up on an article published last Saturday about the Deuterocanonical books and their use in the liturgy.There is no law, either human or divine, which positively requires that...
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