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“Active and Contemplative Participation in the Liturgy” : Lecture in NYC by...
The Catholic Artists Society proudly presents Fr Innocent Smith, O.P., for this season’s final lecture of its Art of the Beautiful lecture series. The talk is entitled “How Can I Keep From Singing?...
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Tenebrae 2018: Photo and Audiopost
We begin our Tenebrae photopost with the mighty Schola Sainte-Cécile, and so I take the opportunity to remind our listeners that the services which they sing at the church of St Eugène in Paris are...
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Ambrosian Chants for Eastertide
Here is a great recording of three Ambrosian chants for the Easter season, sung by the Gruppo di Canto Ambrosiano, many of whose members are also part of the choir of Milan cathedral, and conducted by...
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Holy Saturday 2018 Photopost (Part 1)
Our Holy Week photopost series continues with images of the liturgies of Holy Saturday. How good it is to the return of the triple candle, representing the three Marys coming to the tomb of Christ! We...
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Pontifical Mass with Abp. Sample in Washington DC, April 28
On Saturday, April 28, at 1 pm, Archbishop Alexander Sample will celebrate a Solemn Mass in the traditional rite at the high altar of the upper church of the National Shrine of the Immaculate...
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Blessed Rolando Rivi
On this day in the year 1945, a 14-year old Italian seminarian named Rolando Rivi died as a martyr in a little town called Monchio, in the province of Modena. Rolando was born in 1931, and began...
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Holy Saturday 2018 Photopost (Part 2)
We continue our Holy Week photopost series with more of your Easter vigil ceremonies. I hope our readers will take encouragement in seeing how young both the clergy and servers are in these pictures,...
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New Polyphonic Mass and Motets to Premiere in Denver
The Vittoria Ensemble and its director Rick Wheeler are proud to announce the upcoming premiere, at three concerts in the Denver, Colorado area, of a new polyphonic Mass, the Missa Honorificentia...
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Holy Saturday 2018 Photopost (Part 3)
We finally come to the last of this year’s photoposts of the Triduum! Preparing these almost always involves making some hard choices about which of many beautiful images to publish, and this set was...
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Good Shepherd Sunday 2018
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep,...
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Living the Vita Liturgica: Conditions, Obstacles, Prospects
I have been teaching young adults in college and graduate school for 20 years now, and find it not only endlessly rewarding, but also endlessly provocative. What these young people take for granted,...
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Bearing Witness to the Faith in a Secular Society and Living to Tell the Tale
In the West, we live in a time of steadily increasing hostility towards Christianity. The late and much missed Cardinal George of Chicago, who died of cancer in 2015, famously summed up the situation...
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Easter Sunday 2018 Photopost
Well, we got to the Easter Sunday photopost, the last for this series, much more quickly than we did last year. The total number of photographs published, including eveything from Palm Sunday to this...
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Prominent Catholic Women Announce the Launching of HelenaDaily.com
A Site that Collects the Best Content Available to Fortify the Dignity of Women In Harmony with the Common Good (and So It’s Good for Men Too!)Launched just this week, Helena Daily is the new gathering...
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The Solemnity of St Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church 2018
From the decree of the Sacred Congregation for Rite Inclytus Patriarcha Joseph, dated Sept. 10, 1847, extending the feast of the Patronage of St Joseph to the general calendar. The translation is my...
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Paul VI’s Dislike of the Liturgical Reform
The story has been told many times and in many quarters how Mons. Annibale Bugnini, the secretary of the committee for implementing Sacrosanctum Concilium, would “sell” the items in his program for...
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A New Graduale Parvum to be Launched in England This Saturday
The Introits of the Graduale Parvum, a new work to support the use of Gregorian chant in parish churches, will be launched at St Mary’s College, Oscott, in Birmingham, England, on Saturday, April 21,...
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Tradition is for the Young (Part 12) - OF Mass Ad Orientem in Boston
Our thanks to a reader for sending us these pictures and description of an OF Mass celebrated ad orientem, with evident care for beauty, solemnity and good music. Once again, we should all find it very...
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EF Missa Cantata in the Bronx, April 29
The church of the Holy Rosary in the Bronx, New York, will have a Missa cantata in the Extraordinary Form on April 29th, the Fourth Sunday after Easter, starting at 1 pm, with music by Vincent d’Indy...
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St Agnes of Montepulciano
On the Dominican Calendar, today is the feast of St Agnes of Montepulciano, who predates Catherine of Siena among the great Saints of the Order of Preachers, although she was formally canonized very...
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