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Tradition is for the Young (Part 10) : Pontifical Mass in Louisiana
On the feast of Ss Peter and Paul, His Excellency Glen Provost, bishop of Lake Charles, Louisiana, celebrated a Pontifical Mass in the traditional rite in the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception....
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Good News in Norwalk, Connecticut: Daily Traditional Mass
(Cross-posted from the Society of St. Hugh of Cluny.) Starting September 5th, at St. Mary’s Church the daily morning Mass will be a Traditional low Mass. The time will be changed to 7:30 am, Monday to...
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Returning to Beauty in Church Design: Article on NCR
The National Catholic Register recently published a good article by Trent Beattie on the ever growing trend back towards more traditional and more beautiful designs in churches, and some of the firms...
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NLM Quiz no. 20: What is This Object’s Liturgical Function?
The liturgical function of this piece of furniture can be perfectly described with exactly two words; if only one of those words is given, that is insufficient for the answer to be deemed correct....
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The Priest at Eucharistic Adoration
My favorite book of spiritual reading, hands down, has become In Sinu Jesu: The Journal of a Priest at Prayer (Angelico Press, 2016). Although NLM has not run a proper review of the book (see here,...
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Aidan Hart on How To Make a Mosaic
The English iconographer, Aidan Hart, has completed a series of wonderful mosaics for St George's Orthodox Church in Houston Texas. I have just read this long article in the Orthodox Arts Journal about...
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A Noble Family’s Private Chapel
The subject of our most recent quiz was a portable chapel from the Casa Rocca Piccola in the city of Valletta, Malta. The house, which is still privately owned by an old family of Maltese nobility, the...
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Investitures and Professions of Eight Benedictine Sisters in Missouri —...
On Sunday, August 20th, 2017, at St. James Catholic Church in St. Joseph, Missouri, six women were invested with the holy habit of St. Benedict and two sisters made their simple professions at the...
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The Feast of Bl. Ildephonse Schuster 2017
We never let August 30th pass without remembering the Blessed Cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster, who went to his eternal reward on this day in 1954, after serving as Archbishop of Milan for just over...
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Upcoming Masses and Parish Study on Sacred Art at St Vincent Ferrer, NYC
On Friday, September 8th, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mass will be celebrated in the Dominican Rite at the Church of St Vincent Ferrer in New York City, starting at 7 pm. The...
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The Eucharist, Sacred Pledge of Civilization: Guest Article by Zachary Thomas
Our thanks to one of our most diligent guest contributors, Mr Zachary Thomas, for this interesting account of the 6th Italian National Eucharistic Congress, which was held in the Lombard city of...
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“Irreversible” Round-Up
For a variety of reasons, I thought it best to wait a while before saying anything about the now famous (or infamous) “irreversible” speech which the Holy Father recently gave to the participants in...
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Andrea Gabrieli’s Caro Mea Sung by the Schola Sainte Cécile
I had been planning to post this video along with still pictures of the Mass during which it was taken, and the beautiful church of St Dominic in Valletta, Malta, where it was celebrated....
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Relics of Pope St Pius X
Today is the EF feast day of Pope St Pius X, who died on August 20, the feast of St Bernard of Clairvaux, in 1914. When he was canonized in 1954, his feast was assigned to September 3rd, the first free...
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On Liturgical Memory
As priests know better than anyone else, the smooth celebration of the usus antiquior requires the memorization of a significant number of prayers ahead of time, so that one need not be festooned with...
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John Paul II Foundation for Sacred Arts - An Innovative Answer to Paying...
Here is an exciting and innovative approach to financing original works of sacred art, which comes from the recently formed John Paul II Foundation for Sacred Arts.It is a free market approach by which...
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Sacred Music Workshop in Allentown, NJ, This Saturday
St John the Baptist Catholic Church in Allentown, New Jersey, will hold a sacred music workshop this coming Saturday, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the instruction Musicam Sacram. The...
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A Few Notes on Readings from Job
In the traditional form of the Divine Office, the Matins readings for the first two weeks of September are taken from the book of Job. The system of Scriptural readings assigned to the Office goes back...
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Gothic Boxwood Miniatures
Here is something that can be an inspiration for artists today: exquisite miniature 15th century carvings, which would have been used as personal devotional holy images.The scenes inside are the...
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EF Mass for the Exaltation of the Cross in Sleepy Eye, MN
St Mary, Help of Christians Catholic Church in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, will have an EF Missa cantata on September 14th, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, which is also the 10th anniversary of...
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