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The Raising of Lazarus in the Liturgy of Lent
Until the first part of the eighth century, the Thursdays of Lent were “aliturgical” days in the Roman Rite, days on which no ferial Mass was celebrated. A similar custom prevails to this day in the...
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Laetare Sunday Photopost 2018 (Part 2)
We finish up with your photos of Laetare Sunday liturgies just in time for Passion Sunday and the putting up of the veils; a request for the latter will be posted later today. Many thanks to everyone...
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Photopost Request: Passiontide Veils 2018
Our next photopost series will be of your churches with the Crosses, statues and paintings veiled for Passiontide; please send your pictures to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org for inclusion. Be...
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Passion Sunday 2018
The Vespers hymn for Passiontide Vexilla Regis, in alternating Gregorian chant, according to a different melody than the classic Roman one, and polyphony by Tomás Luis de Victoria.
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Instruction Sheet for Clergy Assisting with Distribution of Communion at the EF
In the ever-growing number of places where the traditional Roman Rite of the Mass is being offered, a situation often arises where a priest who is not already trained in the usus antiquior is...
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Guardini's Spirit of the Liturgy Centenary - Call for Papers of the Society...
Call for Papers Centenary of the Publication of The Spirit of the Liturgy by Romano Guardini September 27–29, 2018 Cathedral of St. Mary Miami, Florida A touchstone of the twentieth-century Liturgical...
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Christ Becomes the Mystagogical Catechist through the Mass
Book review: A Devotional Journey into the Mass - How Mass Can Become A Time of Grace, Nourishment, and Devotion, by Christopher Carstens (pub. Sophia Institute Press).In this book (available here),...
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Roman Pilgrims at the Station Churches (Part 8)
Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent - St EusebiusIn the historical lectionary of the Roman Rite, this was the day on which the Gospel of the Raising of Lazarus (John 11, 1-45) was read; the station was...
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Fostering Young Vocations (Part 7) - Who’s Afraid of the Cassock?
From the French Catholic blog Le Salon Beige comes this item. The southern French dioceses of Perpignan, Montpellier, Nimes and Carcassonne made the following video for a joint collection appeal, in...
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The Feast of St Benedict 2018
Listen carefully, my child, to the master’s precepts, and incline the ear of your heart; willingly receive and effectively fulfill the admonition of your loving father, that by the labor of obedience...
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Passiontide Photopost 2018 (Part 1)
As was the case last year, the response to our request for pictures of your churches with veils for Passiontide was tremendous; we will therefore have at least two more posts of them, possibly three,...
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Triduum and Easter Schedule at St Agnes in St Paul, Minnesota
Here is the schedule of services for the Triduum and Easter Sunday at the church of St Agnes in St Paul, Minnesota, where the legacy of the great Mons Richard Schuler lives on.
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Follow-Up on Tuesday’s Cassock Post
On Tuesday, I reposted an item from the French blog Le Salon Beige about a fund-raising poster produced by four French dioceses, in which the cassock of a young priest was photoshopped out, very...
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Passiontide Photopost 2018 (Part 2)
Exactly as happened last year, in the single day since we posted the first part of this year’s photopost of Passiontide veils, we have received enough new submissions that we will now plan on four...
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The History of the Folded Chasuble, by Henri de Villiers (Part 1)
We are much obliged to Henri de Villiers and the Schola Sainte Cécile for permission to publish this translation by Mr Gerhard Eger of the article “Les chasubles pliés: Histoire et liturgie”, which is...
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Passiontide Photopost 2018 (Part 3)
For the third part of our Passiontide photopost, we begin with something we rarely see nowadays, but which was very common in the Middle Ages. The doors of this triptych are closed to hide the images...
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Photopost Request: Palm Sunday 2018
We are not quite finished with our photos of Passiontide veils (I will do the last of the four posts later today), and Holy Week is already upon us! Please send photos of your Palm Sunday services,...
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Holy Week Schedule for Westminster Cathedral, 1939
I have seen this several times on social media, but somehow, we’ve never got around to sharing it here on NLM. His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop (Arthur Hinsley) had a very busy week. Note that in...
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Holy Week Schedule for the St Ann Choir in Palo Alto, California
Here is the Holy Week schedule for services in Palo Alto, California, which will be sung by the St Ann Choir, featuring the music Byrd, Tallis, Palestrina, Victoria, di Lasso and others, and Gregorian...
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Passiontide Photopost 2018 (Part 4)
We finally come to the conclusion of our four-part series of churches with veils for Passiontide; I believe we have even surpassed last year’s bumper crop, in terms of the number of individual...
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