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Follow-Up on a Beautiful New Church in Indiana
Last March, we published a brief article about St Pius X parish in Granger, Indiana, a beautiful new building which was officially dedicated on the feast of the Annunciation by His Excellency Kevin...
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Two Shrines Pilgrimage in Scotland, August 5-7
The second annual Two Shrines Pilgrimage, a three-day walk in the spirit of the Chartres pilgrimage from Edinburgh to St Andrews, with the particular intention of the reconversion of Scotland, will...
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Renaissance Butter Knives Inscribed with Chant Score for Grace!
How about this as a way to encourage the family to pray grace beautifully? The photograph comes from a review of and exhibition of Renaissance Devotionals in Cambridge, Mass. written by Dr Carrie...
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Fota X Venue and Schedule Update
St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy, which organizes Fota International Liturgy Conference every year, has asked me to post the following update. The Clarion Hotel at Lapp’s Quay, Cork City, the...
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The Legal Achievement of Summorum Pontificum
I propose here to consider what Pope Benedict XVI meant, and what he achieved, by categorizing the traditional Roman Mass and the post-conciliar reform of it as two Forms of the same Rite, the one...
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A New Cocktail to Toast Summorum Pontificum
Dr Michael Foley, the author of Drinking with the Saints: The Sinner’s Guide to a Holy Happy Hour, has come up with a new concoction especially to celebrate tomorrow’s tenth anniversary of the motu...
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FSSP Ordinations in Germany with Cardinal Burke
On Saturday, July 1st, the feast of the Precious Blood, His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke ordained seven deacons of the Fraternity of St Peter to the priesthood in the parish church at Lindenberg, a...
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The Glorious Revolution Overthrown: On the Tenth Anniversary of Summorum...
If one reads a lot of Catholic literature from the late sixties and throughout the seventies and eighties, one encounters a peculiar smugness in the authors, a self-satisfaction at the success of what...
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Solemn High Mass of Thanksgiving at the Monastery of Norcia
Today, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the issuance of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, the Benedictine Monks of Norcia celebrated a solemn High Votive Mass of St. Benedict, with prayers...
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Reflections on the Tenth Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum
With today being the tenth anniversary of the issuance of the motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, it has led me to think back a bit on the history of the movement to restore the usus antiquior within...
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Save the Date in Philadelphia: Summorum Pontificum Anniversary Mass, Sept. 14
On September 14th, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, His Excellency Joseph Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, will celebrate a Solemn High Pontifical Mass in the Cathedral Basilica of Ss Peter...
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Tradition is for the Young (Part 8): Dom Alcuin on Summorum Pontificum’s 10th...
The Catholic Herald published yesterday a great essay by Dom Alcuin Reid, with the very well-chosen second headline “On the 10th anniversary of Summorum Pontificum, we can safely say the doomsayers are...
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Fota X Conference, Day 1: Summary of the Lectures
The first day of the Fota Liturgical Conference was held today in Cork, Ireland, with four lectures on the theme “Resourcing the Prayers of the Roman Liturgy: Patristic Sources.”Dr. Markus Büning...
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The Assault on Catholic Language and the Rebellion of the Poets
Let us attempt an Orwellian thought experiment. A new government has taken the reins of power and wishes to alter permanently the character of the people and even the range of their thoughts, the range...
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A Reflection on Acedia, Eros and Christian Joy
In his encyclicals Deus caritas est and Caritas in veritate, Pope Benedict XVI discusses the relationship between two different aspects of love, which he refers to using the Greek terms agape and...
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Procession and Solemn Mass at Norcia for the Summer Feast of St. Benedict
Today the Benedictine monks who live in the mountains above the birthplace of Saints Benedict and Scholastica celebrated the mid-summer (July 11th) feast of their holy patriarch with solemn Terce, an...
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Coptic Catholic Liturgy in New York City
Our thanks to one of our regular photopost contributors, Diana Yuan, for these images of a Coptic liturgy celebrated at the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in New York City, by Abouna...
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ICK to Save Another Historic Church in England
The following is a press release from the Diocese of Lancaster, England, announcing a new apostolate for the Institute of Christ the King. The pictures are reproduced from Bishop Campbell’s blog with...
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Mass of Thanksgiving for Summorum Pontificum in Notre-Dame de Paris
Here are some beautiful photos of a Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit, celebrated in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, in thanksgiving for Pope Benedict’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum on recently...
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Fota X Conference, Day 2: Pontifical Mass with Card. Burke and Presentation...
On Sunday, July 9, His Eminence Raymond Card. Burke celebrated a Pontifical High Mass at the church of Ss Peter and Paul in Cork, Ireland, as part of the tenth annual Fota liturgical conference. As...
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