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Ambrogio Lorenzetti Exhibition in Siena
The Italian city of Siena is currently hosting a wonderful show of works by one of her great native sons, the painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti (ca. 1290-1348). The younger brother of another very talented...
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EF Solemn Mass to be Offered at National Catholic Youth Conference on Friday
Every two years, over 25,000 young people attend the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), which for the past three years has been held in Indianapolis at Lucas Oil Stadium and the Convention...
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Bishop Serratelli’s Recent Pontifical Mass
On October 14th, His Excellency Arthur Serratelli, bishop of Paterson, New Jersey, celebrated a solemn Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form in the cathedral of St John the Baptist. I must confess...
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More from the Lorenzetti Show in Siena
Following up on a post from yesterday, here is some more of the splendid work of the painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti (ca. 1290-1348), currently being shown at an exhibition in his native city of...
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St Gregory the Wonderworker
On the calendar of the Extraordinary Form, today is the feast of St Gregory the Wonderworker, bishop of Neo-Caesarea in Pontus, his native city, the modern Niksar in north-central Turkey. Born around...
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Lectio brevior and the Parable of the Talents
The General Introduction to the Lectionary (GIL) has this to say about lectio brevior, or short forms of readings:In the case of certain rather long texts, longer and shorter versions are provided to...
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Mass for Fr Magin Catala in Santa Clara, California, Nov. 22
On Wednesday, November 22, the ninth annual traditional Latin Mass will be held at the tomb of the Servant of God Father Magin Catala O.F.M., known as “The Holy Man of Santa Clara”, in Mission Santa...
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Confronting the Heresy of Activism with the Primacy of Prayer
In Henri de Lubac’s Vatican Council Notebooks — a resource already put to good use here at New Liturgical Movement in discussions of splendor and Latin— we find the following summary of a speech by...
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Saints of the Roman Canon: St Cecilia, November 22nd
Tomorrow is the commemoration of St Cecilia, one of the saints mentioned in the Roman Canon. Although she was martyred in the 3rd century AD, and devotion to her remained continuous from that time, the...
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The Difficult Life of the MC
We have posted a number of videos from the old newsreel maker British Pathé from 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, and especially those of Papal events from that era. I would say that this one, a small part of...
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Bishop of Copenhagen to Lead Next Year’s Populus Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage
The organisers of the Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage have announced the dates of next year’s pilgrimage to Rome, October 26-28, 2018, and that it will be led by His Excellency Czeslaw Kozon,...
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Finishing the St Paul Center at UW Madison
Just as a quick follow up to last week’s post about the rebuilding of the St Paul Catholic Student Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Matthew Alderman has shared with us some pictures of...
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The Feast of St Cecilia in Rome
Like many of the old Roman basilicas, the church of St Cecilia in Trastevere brings out some very nice decorations for its patronal feast day. The church had a lot of visitors this evening leading up...
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Christ the King with the St Ann Choir in Palo Alto, California
On Sunday, November 26, the Solemnity of Christ the King, the St Ann Choir will sing an Ordinary Form Latin Mass with Gregorian chant and the Missa Nisi Dominus by Ludwig Senfl (1485-1543 ca). at St...
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An Italian Documentary on the Carthusians, 1972
Another great discovery on Youtube, a documentary filmed in the Charterhouse of Vedana in northern Italy (close to Belluno, in the province of the Veneto) by Italian television in 1972. The narration...
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EF Solemn Mass In Toledo This Sunday with Bishop Thomas
St Joseph Parish and the Latin Mass Community of Toledo, Ohio, have organized a diocesan celebration of the 10th Anniversary of Summorum Pontificum at the request of His Excellency Daniel Thomas, the...
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Photopost Catchup from the Philippines
We have recently received two photo submissions from Cebu City in the Philippine Islands, the first being of the funeral rites of Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, who passed away on October 18th, and the second...
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St Catherine of Alexandria 2017
Let Holy Mother the Church gladly receive the glorious solemnity of the Virgin Saint Catherine. Hail, o virgin, worthy of God, hail, sweet and kindly one, obtain for us the joy which you possess with...
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Lux Fulgebit: A CD for the Christmas Season
As we approach the Advent and Christmas seasons, we remind New Liturgical Movement readers of the CD Lux Fulgebit: The Mass at Dawn of Christmas Day. Produced by the Schola Cantorum of St Mary’s Church...
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King of Kings and Lord of Lords
Kevin Williamson sums up very nicely the spirit in which the feast of Christ the King was instituted in 1925; click here to read the whole article at National Review Online.To the encroaching and...
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