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Some Calendar Notes for Mid-July
In the Missal and Breviary of St Pius V, July 13th is the feast of Pope St Anacletus, which was carried over from the pre-Tridentine editions. The 14th is that of St Bonaventure, who died in 1274,...
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The Antepreparatory and Preparatory Documents of Vatican II (1959-1962)
Some time ago, I started on a project to make the primary sources of the Second Vatican Council more accessible to the general public. The Acta Synodalia of both the first session and second session of...
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A Visit to Innsbruck (1): The "Mariahilf" Icon of Cranach: A Protestant's...
Right at the end of June and the beginning of July, I had the pleasure of spending a few days with a friend in the city of Innsbruck, Austria, where I had never been before. He wanted to share with me...
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Third Annual Summorum Pontificum Congress in Santiago, Chile, July 27-29
Magnificat-Una Voce Chile will hold its third annual Summorum Pontificum Conference in Santiago, Chile, to commemorate 10 years of the motu proprio, July 27-29, at the church of Nuestra Señora de la...
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TLM Pilgrimage in New York City This Saturday
The sixth annual Traditional Latin Mass Pilgrimage to the Pontifical Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, located at 448 East 116th St. in East Harlem, New York City, will be held this Saturday, July...
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Fota X Conference Papers Day 3, and Photos of Card. Burke’s Mass
On Monday, July 10th, the following papers were presented at the tenth annual Fota Liturgical Conference, focusing this year on the Church Fathers and the sources of the Roman Rite. Fr Kevin Zilverberg...
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EF Mass in Detroit for Beatification of Ven. Solanus Casey
There will be a special High Mass in the Extraordinary Form in honor of the beatification of Ven. Solanus Casey this Sunday, July 23, at 2:00 pm at one of Detroit’s grandest historic churches, Most...
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Photos of Cardinal Meisner’s Funeral
This past Saturday, the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany, celebrated the funeral rites of His Eminence Joachim Cardinal Meisner, who held that see for over 25 years, from December of 1988 until his...
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More Details on the Pilgrimage from Burgundy to Pluscarden Abbey
Fr Dunstan Robertson has reminded me of the pilgrimage being organised by Pluscarden Abbey, the Benedictine house in northeast Scotland. It started in June, and is going on now, but people can still...
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Patronal Feast of the St Ann Choir in Palo Alto
Celebrate the patronal feast of the St Ann Choir next Wednesday, July 26 at 8:00 p.m. They will sing the Missa Sesquialtera of Orlando di Lasso and the Gregorian chants for the day at St Thomas Aquinas...
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The Feast of St Elijah the Prophet
A few years ago, Shawn Tribe published an article about the presence of Saints of the Old Testament in the Eastern liturgies, and their almost total absence from those of the West. Although a large...
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Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage and Conference in Rome, Sept. 14-17
The celebrations for the tenth anniversary of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum are an initiative of the Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum, the organizers since 2012 of the annual Populus...
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When Can Mutual Enrichment Begin?
Card. Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, recently had an article in the French magazine La Nef; in it, he discusses among other things the mutual enrichment of the two Forms...
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"Liturgical Obedience, the Imitation of Christ, and the Seductions of...
At the kind invitation of Dom Mark Kirby, O.S.B., I delivered a lecture this past Tuesday, July 18, at Silverstream Priory in Ireland, entitled "Liturgical Obedience, the Imitation of Christ, and the...
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The Feast of St Mary Magdalene 2017
O happy Mary of happy merit, that first among mortals did merit to see the Son of God rising from the dead; for whose love thou disdained the blandishments of the world: * by thy prayer, we ask thee,...
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A Visit to Innsbruck (2): The Jesuit Church of Jungmann and Rahner
In the old city of Innsbruck one finds the rather impressive Jesuit church dedicated to the Most Holy Trinity, adjacent to the Theology Faculty. This is and has long been a major center for Jesuit...
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PCED Issue Clarification on Bishop’s Missa Cantata
In response to a query from the Cappella Gregoriana Sanctae Cæciliae, a traditional rite choir based in the Philippines, the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei has issued a clarification on the subject...
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St James the Greater, the Son of Zebedee
I wrote recently about some ideas for guiding principles by which we might create a canon of art for Roman Rite churches, and a schema that would guide the placement of such images in a church.I now...
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Dominican Rite Solemn Mass, July 26, 2017, Portland OR
Solemn Dominican Mass at Holy RosaryOn Thursday, July 26, the Feast of St. Anne, Mother of Our Lady, Fr. Gabriel Mosher, O.P., will celebrate a Solemn High Mass in the Dominican Rite, assisted by Frs....
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A Famous Medieval Relic of St James the Greater
All Catholics know that the church of Santiago di Compostella in Spain is one of the most important pilgrimage shrines in the world. Far less well known today is the fact that the Tuscan city of...
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