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EF Pontifical Mass with Card. Burke for Epiphany in Rome
On the feast of the Epiphany, Saturday, January 6, His Eminence the Most Reverend Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke will celebrate a Pontifical Mass at the Roman parish of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter...
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EF Mass in Ste Genevieve to Commemorate the Diocese’s 200th Anniversary
We received the following from Fr Edward Nemeth of St Genevieve Catholic Church in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. This parish was founded in 1759 in the oldest settlement in the state of Missouri, also...
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The Epiphany of the Lord 2018
There are three precious gifts which the wise men offered to the Lord on this day, and they have within them divine mysteries: * in the gold, that the power of a King may be shown; in the frankincense,...
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An Ambrosian Chant for Epiphany: “Omnes Patriarchae”
Although the Ambrosian Office shares many features with that of the Roman Rite, its structure is different in almost every respect. Vespers begins not with psalmody, but with a Lucernarium, a...
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Two Attitudes toward Ordinary Form Rubrics: Kantian Duty and Aristotelian...
Over the years at NLM, various authors have published articles concerning how the Ordinary Form might be “enriched” or “improved,” usually by way of adapting or importing practices of the traditional...
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The Other Modern in Music: Videntes Stellam by Francis Poulenc
A musician friend, Mr Ján Janovčík of the Netherlands-based Early Music ensemble Cantores Sancti Gregorii, recommended this motet by the French composter Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) as a good example...
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Epiphany 2018 Photopost (Part 1)
Last year, the number of submissions for Epiphany was small enough to cover everything in a single post; this year, we have received twice as many, so will definitely be doing a second one, and will be...
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Fota XI Liturgical Conference in Cork Ireland, July 7-9, 2018
St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the Fota XI International Liturgy Conference will be held in Cork, Ireland, from July 7-9, 2018. The subject of the conference is...
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The Parisian Sequence for Epiphany
The Schola Sainte Cecilé has just published on their Youtube channel a recording of the sequence for Epiphany from the Parisian Missal of 1685, Ad Jesum accurrite; this was made during the Mass of...
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Epiphany 2018 Phtopost (Part 2)
As promised, the Byzantine Rite arrives in force for our second Epiphany photopost, including some photos from a church we have never shown before, the Greek-Catholic cathedral of Athens. Our thanks as...
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Bishop of Salford Offers Church to Anglican Ordinariate
It was with great excitement that a reader of my blog thewayofbeauty.org contacted me recently, to tell me the that the Bishop of Salford, John Arnold, has very generously offered the Anglican...
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Address by Dom Karl Wallner: “The Profanation of the Sacred and the...
Extracts from a major (and fascinating) address given by Dom Karl Wallner, O. Cist., Rector of the Pontifical University of Heiligenkreuz and national director of Missio for Austria, have been...
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The Basilica of Our Lady in Fribourg, Switzerland
The subject of our most recent quiz was an item from the Basilica of Our Lady in Fribourg, Switzerland, which was entrusted to the care of the Fraternity of St Peter in 2012 by His Excellency Charles...
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A Powerful Novel Set in Reformation France
I’ve been wanting to mention this book to NLM readers for a long time, but with one thing and another, it's taken me a while to get to it. Angelico Press has recently republished a splendid Catholic...
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When Does the Christmas Season End?
A friend has just brought to my attention an article by Jennifer Miller on CatholicCulture.org, which discusses the question of when the Christmas season officially ends; I have also seen a few similar...
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The Baptism of the Lord 2018
Seeing our enlightenment, that enlightened every man, come to be baptized, the Forerunner rejoices in spirit, and trembles with his hand: he shows Him, and says to the people “Behold Him that ransoms...
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How Typical Lector Praxis Transmits a Pelagian and Protestant Message
When I attended Thomas Aquinas College in California from 1990 to 1994, one of the first things I noticed about their Novus Ordo liturgies — apart from the startling fact that the unchanging parts were...
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A Premonstratensian Mass of the Epiphany
We received a late submission of Epiphany photos, but one which deserves its own separate post, since it gives us a chance to enjoy something a little unusual, a Solemn Mass celebrated in the...
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A New Regular EF Mass in the Bronx
We are happy to share with our readers news that the church of the Holy Rosary in the Bronx, New York, is adding a monthly Mass in Extraordinary Form to its Sunday schedule, beginning this month. The...
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St Peter’s Square, 1956
Our thanks once again to Fr Alex Schrenk, a priest of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, this time for sharing with us this marvelous photo of seminarians of the North American College having a snowball fight...
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