Victoria’s Requiem for 4 Voices on All Souls in Littleton, Colorado4
The FSSP parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Littleton, Colorado will celebrate High Mass on All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, both starting at 7 pm. On All Saints, the music will include Mass II,...
View Article“What Were They Smoking?”: On Liturgical Art from the 1970s
My liturgical library contains two types of books: ones that I look at because they are beautiful, edifying, or full of wisdom and piety; and ones that I keep precisely because they are the opposite....
View ArticleDominican Rite Sung Mass, SF Bay Area, November 4
The next First Saturday Dominican Rite Missa Cantata at the Priory of St. Albert the Great, the house of studies of the Western Dominican Province in Oakland, CA, will occur on Saturday, November 4, at...
View ArticleAll Saints and All Souls Announcements: O. Praem. in California; St John...
Here are a couple of other announcements about liturgies for tomorrow’s solemnity of All Saints and the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed on Thursday.Premonstratensian Rite in Wilmington,...
View ArticleSt Wolfgang of Regensburg
Traditionally, the vigil of All Saints was kept in much of Germany as the feast of St Wolfgang, who died on October 31st of the year 994. Our thanks to our friend Jordan Hainsey for providing us with...
View ArticlePhotopost Request: All Saints and All Souls 2017
Our next photopost will be for the feast of All Saints and the Commemoration of All Souls, tomorrow and Thursday. We welcome pictures of Mass in either Form, as well as celebrations of the Divine...
View ArticleThe Feast of All Saints 2017
From the Roman Breviary of 1529, the beginning of the sermon for the feast of All Saints.We read in the histories of the Church that Saint Boniface, who was the fourth bishop of Rome after the blessed...
View ArticleLiturgical Arts Journal: A New Endeavor from Shawn Tribe
Our founding editor, Shawn Tribe, has just officially launched a new website, Liturgical Arts Journal.“It is with great pleasure that I announce to you today the launch of a new site dedicated...
View ArticleThe Feast of All Saints 2017: God the Creator
From the Roman Breviary of 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the feast of All Saints.Now therefore, dearest brethren, at the origin of all the Saints, we must name, praise and glorify Him who...
View ArticleThe Dominican Libera me, Domine
One of the most beautiful and beloved pieces of the Gregorian chant repertoire is the last responsory of Matins of the Dead, Libera me, Domine, which is also sung during the Absolution at the...
View ArticleThe Origin of All Saints’ Day
In the course of research on All Saints’ Day for a planned piece in the Liturgical Notes series, I have come to believe that the traditional story about the feast’s origin may be either incorrect, or...
View ArticleThe Feast of All Saints 2017: the Virgin Mary, Model of the Saints
From the Roman Breviary of 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the feast of All Saints.We must certainly believe that the blessed Mother of God and ever-Virgin Mary, the temple of God, the shrine...
View Article“What Were They Smoking?”: Liturgical Reform Edition
Earlier this week, Dr Peter Kwasniewski shared some examples of liturgical art from the 1970s, rightly saying that: blockquote.tr_bq { padding: 0 15px; width: 100%;} You need to know what people were...
View ArticleEucharistic Procession for All Saints’ Day at Wyoming Catholic College
A few years ago, students at Wyoming Catholic College decided to ask if they could do a Eucharistic Procession on the Solemnity of All Saints, in honor of Christ, the King of all the Saints. Since...
View ArticleThe Feast of All Saints 2017: The Angels
From the Roman Breviary of 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the feast of All Saints. It is God who placed the supernal kingdoms of the Heavens for the angelic spirits, to the praise and glory...
View ArticleRelics of St Charles Borromeo
Our thanks once again to Fr Adrian Hilton of the Cincinnati Oratory for sharing with us these photos from his relic collection, this time of St Charles Borromeo, whose feast is today. It is a letter...
View ArticleDom Mark Kirby on “Ten Fruits of Summorum Pontificum”
As part of the tenth anniversary celebrations of Summorum Pontificum (which ought to continue throughout the year!), I am happy to share with NLM readers a wonderful reflection on the motu proprio by...
View ArticleThe Feast of All Saints 2017: The Patriarchs and Prophets
From the Roman Breviary of 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the feast of All Saints. This is also the feast of all the Saints who have been begotten in honor upon the earth from the beginning...
View ArticleThe Overemphasis on “New” and “Renewed”
Liturgiam Authenticamdefended the principle that the substantial unity of the Roman Rite must prevail, plainly and evidently, in and through the plurality of expressions of it allowed by Church...
View ArticleThe Feast of All Saints 2017: The Apostles
From the Roman Breviary of 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the feast of All Saints. From among all those whom the world contains, divine providence chose the twelve Apostles… to lay down the...
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