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Holy Week Photopost Request 2017
The Triduum is upon us! As we do every year, we will have a whole series of photoposts of your Holy Week liturgies, with individual posts for Tenebrae, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and...
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The Theology of the 1955 Solemn Liturgical Action of Good Friday
This article is the second in a projected series of four, discussing the theology of the Good Friday ceremony of the Missal of St Pius V (part 1), the revised version of Pope Pius XII, and the Novus...
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Palm Sunday Photopost 2017 (Part 2)
Our second of photos of your Palm Sunday liturgies, including three sets from the Philippines, and a procession in Singapore with statues of Christ bearing the Cross and Our Lady of Sorrows. We will...
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The Reconciliation of the Public Penitents on Holy Thursday at Sarum
About a month ago, I published an article about the use of the Penitential Psalms in Lent, in which I mentioned that they were generally said at the beginning of the season, at the ceremony by which...
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Holy Thursday 2017
Communicating, and celebrating the most sacred day, on which Our Lord, Jesus Christ, was betrayed. Thou, o Lord, didst command us to be partakers of Thy Son, sharers of Thy kingdom, dwellers in...
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The Royal Hours of Good Friday
The Royal Hours are a special service which is held three times a year in the Byzantine Rite, on Christmas Eve, Epiphany Eve, and Good Friday. It consists of the Hours of Prime, Terce, Sext and None,...
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Roman Sacrament Altars 2017
One of the most beautiful things about Holy Week in Rome is the long-standing popular custom of visiting the Sacrament Altars (often called “sepolcri - sepulchers” in Italian) of seven churches on the...
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Good Friday Liturgy of the Passion at the London Oratory
Pictures of this afternoon's Liturgy of the Passion at the London Oratory. (Photos: Charles Cole)
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The Dominican Easter Vigil (before 1957)
As most readers know, the old Easter Vigil of the Roman Rite underwent a series of reforms beginning in 1951 and continuing until the introduction of the revised Holy Week Rite of Pope Pius XII in the...
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Maundy Thursday at the London Oratory
Photographs taken yesterday at Solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper at the London Oratory, including the Mandatum and Procession to the Altar of Repose. (Photos: Charles Cole)
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Holy Saturday 2017
Weep not over me, Mother, as Thou beholdest me in the tomb, Thy Son whom Thou didst conceive in the womb without seed; for I shall rise and be glorified, and as God, shall unceasingly exalt in glory...
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Dominican Rite Hand Missal Reprinted
The Title Page of the MissalI have often been asked whether it would be possible to reprint the Saint Dominic Missal, originally printed in 1959 by the Eastern Dominican Province. Some time ago, I...
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Easter Sunday 2017
Scimus Christum surrexisse a mortuis vere; Tu nobis, Victor rex, miserere. Amen. Alleluia! We know that Christ has truly risen from the dead; do Thou, victorious King, have mercy on us. Amen....
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A Tour of the Bernardikapelle in Vienna
In my recent visit to Vienna for a liturgical study day sponsored by Una Voce Austria, I spent a morning walking around the center of the city with an old friend, Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., whose...
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Medieval Paschal Candle Holder
I was pleased to hear recently that as a result of an article last January, Gina Switzer received orders from around the country for just over 30 paschal candles. When she was telling me about this,...
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Mass in Honor of Msgr Schuler At St Agnes This Sunday
This Thursday, April 20th, marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Monsignor Richard Schuler. The church of St Agnes in Minneapolis-St Paul, where he served as pastor from 1969-2001, will have a...
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Resurrection Concert Series of Ukrainian Sacred Music
This April 19th-22nd, over 50 singers from Canada, the United States, and Ukraine will be presenting Resurrection: Music from the Ukrainian Sacred Choral Tradition in Toronto, Rochester, Philadelphia,...
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Bethlehem Icon Centre Featured in Daily Mail, Times of Israel, Yahoo News...
It was with pleasure and surprise that I noticed that an article about the Bethlehem Icon Centre, its founder and director, Ian Knowles, and its patron, the Melkite Byzantine Catholic Bishop of...
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Catching Up With the Artists in the Sacristy
Back in January, we ran a post of photos sent by Fr Jeffrey Keyes, who serves as chaplain to the Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa at the Regina Pacis Convent in Santa Rosa, California. They show a nice...
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