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Dominican Chants for Holy Week Available
Dominican Liturgy Publications is pleased to announce that the volume Hedomada Sancta Pro Liturgia Horarum Iuxta Usum Ordinis Praedicatorum is now available in time for Holy Week. This volume contains...
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Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi: Bishop Conley Reflects on Liturgiam authenticam
His Excellency James Conley is the Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska. This article first appeared on March 31st as his column in the Southern Nebraska Register. He writes: Because we are Catholic, sacred...
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Passiontide Photopost 2017 (Part 1) - Zeal for Tradition
Our request for pictures of your churches with veils for Passiontide received an overwhelming response, more than twice as big as it was last year; we will therefore have at least two posts of them,...
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Speaking in Louisville, Kentucky, This Coming Saturday
Just in case there are readers who are within striking distance of Louisville, Kentucky, and are interested in attending, I will be speaking at the Immaculata Classical Academy this coming Saturday at...
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Ecclesia Dei Commission Decree on Fatima Centenary
This year the Church will mark on May 13th the centenary of the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fátima, and see the canonization of Blessed Jacinta and Francisco Marto, two of the children to whom...
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An Ancient Pallium Displayed at the Vatican Museums
From March 24th until June 25th, the Vatican Museums is hosting a small but very interesting show about St Caesarius of Arles (470-542), an important figure in the early Merovingian church. After...
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Passiontide Photopost 2017 (Part 2) - Zeal for Tradition Continues!
In the 40 hours since we published the first set of photos of your churches with the crosses and statues veiled for Passiontide, we have received quite a few more. In part one, I stated that we would...
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Holy Week Processions in Portugal
Thanks to our friend Marco da Vinha, author of the blog Alma Bracarense, for letting us know about these videos of a traditional Holy Week procession in the little town of Óbidos, Portugal. (Click here...
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The Theology of the Mass of the Presanctified
This article is the first in a projected series of four, which will discuss the theology of the Good Friday ceremony of the Missal of St Pius V, the revised version of Pope Pius XII, and the Novus...
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Passiontide Photopost 2017 (Part 3)
We continue with our third of four posts showing your photos of Passiontide veils, starting with something rather unique (once again) from our good friends at the FSSP’s church in Lyon: the Mass of...
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Photopost Request: Palm Sunday 2017
We are not quite finished with our photos of Passiontide veils (I will do the last of the four posts later today), and Holy Week is already upon us! Please send photos of your Palm Sunday services,...
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St Ann Choir Holy Week Schedule, Palo Alto, California
As always, the St Ann Choir will be singing Gregorian chant and the finest of Renaissance polyphony for the services of Holy Week and Easter Sunday, at the churches of St Thomas Aquinas and the chapel...
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Passiontide Photopost 2017 (Part 4)
We finally come to the conclusion of our four-part series of churches with veils for Passiontide, which as I mentioned earlier, is the biggest response we have ever had to any photopost request. We...
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Palm Sunday 2017
The Son and Word of the Father, like Him without beginning or end, seated on a dumb beast, the foal of an ass, hath come today to the city of Jerusalem, even He whom the cherubim cannot gaze upon from...
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Photos of Pontifical Mass at Rolduc with Archbishop Sample
The 18th Liturgische-Tagung in Herzogenrath, Germany — now rather well-known in the news, due to Cardinal Sarah's remarkably impassioned address that was read aloud to the participants — featured as...
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The Apostolic Blueprint for a Parish, the Model of Christian Community in the...
There is a lot of discussion today about the loss of community and how parishes, even those that seem well attended, don’t seem to be the center or the community any more. This is not only a response...
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Tenebrae and Triduum Services at St Anthony of Padua in Jersey City, New Jersey
Here are the schedules for Tenebrae and the services of the Sacred Triduum in the Extraordinary Form, at the church of St Anthony of Padua, in Jersey City, New Jersey. The church is located at Monmouth...
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Triduum Schedule for St Mary Moorfield, London
The Latin Mass Society will be celebrating Holy Week with a wealth of traditional liturgy and exquisite sacred music at St Mary Moorfields in the heart of the City of London. Beginning on Spy Wednesday...
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Palm Sunday Photopost 2017 (Part 1)
As always, thanks to all of our readers who sent in photographs of their Palm Sunday liturgies! Once again, we have a good mix of many different aspects of our Catholic liturgical rites, OF and EF, the...
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Holy Week Schedule for St. Mary’s in Norwalk, Connecticut
St Mary’s Church in Norwalk, Connecticut, has scheduled its entire Holy Week Triduum in the Extraordinary Form for the sixth year in a row. The Rev. Richard Cipolla, pastor, is the celebrant of all the...
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