Fota X Liturgical Conference in Ireland, July 8-10
St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the Fota X International Liturgy Conference will be held in Cork, Ireland, July 8-10, 2017. The subject of the conference is...
View ArticleVespers in Dominican Chant
Dominican Liturgy Publications is pleased to announce that the volume containing the texts and music for singing Vespers for all the solemnities and Sundnays of the year in Dominican Gregorian chant is...
View ArticleMass for St Joseph in Newark, New Jersey, March 20
The Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Newark, New Jersey, will have an EF Missa Cantata for the transferred Feast of St. Joseph on Monday, March 20th at 7:00 p.m., celebrated by Msgr. Joseph...
View ArticleThe Byzantine Feast of St Benedict in Rome
In the Byzantine Rite, the feast of St Benedict is kept on March 14th, one week before the day of his death, which is his traditional Roman day. The Greek College in Rome honors him as its Patron...
View ArticleThe Feast of St Longinus
On March 15th, the Roman Martyrology commemorates St Longinus, who is traditionally said to be the soldier who pierced the Lord’s side with a lance on the Cross (John 19, 34), as well as the centurion...
View ArticleDominican Formulary of Blessings Reprinted
Dominican Liturgy Publications is pleased to announce the republication of the Forumularium Absolutionum et Benedictionum ad Usum Ordininis Praedicatorum, which contains dozens of blesssings,...
View ArticleCall for Papers - Society for Catholic Liturgy
Call for PapersThe Liturgy and Post-Modernity2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Catholic Liturgy http://liturgysociety.org/The Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul and the Archdiocesan...
View ArticleCatholic Life in the Colonies – A Lecture by Helen Hull Hitchcock
Thanks to Matthew Swaim of the Coming Home Network for bringing to our attention this video of a very interesting lecture by the late Helen Hull Hitchcock on “Catholic Life in the Colonies.” It was...
View ArticleCWR Interview with Dom Alcuin Reid on Upcoming Sacra Liturgia Milan
Yesterday, Catholic World Report published an interview with Dom Alcuin Reid on this year’s Sacra Liturgia Conference, which will take place in Milan from June 6-9, and include a number of celebrations...
View ArticleSome Byzantine Events for Lent
Since it is the ancient custom of the Byzantine Rite to refrain from celebrating the Divine Liturgy on the weekdays of Lent, many Byzantine churches dedicate a lot more time to the Office in this...
View ArticleThe Penitential Psalms in Books of Hours
The seven Penitential Psalms are a standard part of the liturgical material incorporated into Books of Hours, along with the Little Office of the Virgin Mary, the Office of the Dead, and the Litany of...
View ArticleSolemn Mass for St Patrick in Dublin
Thanks once again to our friend Mr John Briody for sending in photos from St Kevin’s Church in Dublin, Ireland, home to the Latin Mass Chaplaincy for the Dublin Archdiocese; this time, they are of Mass...
View ArticlePhotopost Request: St Joseph, Annunciation and Laetare Sunday
This week, we have three major features of the liturgical year within a single week - the feasts of St Joseph and the Annunciation, followed immediately by Laetare Sunday. We will be doing at least one...
View ArticleA Roman Pilgrim at the Station Churches 2017 (Part 3)
Over the last few years, quite a number of people have either written to me or left a note in one of the comboxes to say how much they enjoy this series, so I apologize for letting myself get behind...
View Article“Samuel and Daniel, Though Young, Judged the Elders”: Traditionalism as a...
The progress of centuries has often returned to the Rule of St. Benedict as a repository of timeless wisdom, capable of guiding any community of God-seekers to peace and holiness. One cannot help but...
View ArticleThe Feast of St Benedict 2017
O ! the praiseworthy and glorious merits of Saint Benedict, who, since he spurned his fatherland, and the pomp of the world for Christ’s sake, obtained the fellowship of all the blessed, * and came to...
View ArticlePalestrina Mass for the Annunciation in New York City
The Church of St Agnes in New York City, located at 143 East 43rd Street, will have a Solemn High EF Mass this coming Saturday, the feast of the Annunciation, starting at 10:30 a.m.; the St Mary’s...
View ArticleSt Teilo’s Church, Llandeilo Tal-y-bont
A young seminarian recently mentioned to me that he had been following with interest the discussions on the proposal that the School of St Albans might be an appropriate style to develop in today’s...
View ArticleTwo Articles of Interest, by Martin Mosebach and Stuart Chessman
Here are a couple of recent articles which will certainly be of interest to our readers, and which I think it profitable to read together, as I will explain below. The first is a lengthy piece in First...
View ArticleThe Tomb of Christ Reopened in Jerusalem
This morning, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, presided over the reopening of the shrine over the tomb of Christ within the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, after many months of...
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