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Why Create New Art or Music When There's Plenty of Good Old Stuff Around?
For me a living tradition in art (and the argument would apply equally to music), is not simply one that preserves and hands on the great work past, it is one also that reapplies its core principles to...
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16th Sunday, Simple English Propers
In most parishes, people will sing songs of some sort. At a growing number of parishes, you will heard the actually words of the liturgy sung with Gregorian modes.
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New Calvary Chapel at the London Oratory
This past Friday, the Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain, the Most Reverend Archbishop Antonio Mennini, visited the London Oratory for the purpose of the blessing of the new Calvary Chapel, which has...
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Fifth Anniversary Mass, San Tommaso Apostolo, Dolcedo, Italy
Don Emanuele Caccia of the diocese of Albenga Imperia celebrated the 5th anniversary of his priestly ordination with a Mass in the usus antiquior on Saturday at the church of San Tommaso Apostolo in...
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Details: Cecchini Chasuble
Detail from chasuble showing the arms of the Roman-born Domenico Cardinal Cecchini (1589-1656), Cardinal Deacon of S. Sisto
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Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, East Harlem, New York
A reader sends in photos of a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in East Harlem, New York, on Saturday, July 21.
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Dominican Rite in Columbus, Ohio
One of our Dominican readers let us know of the following event taking place in Columbus, Ohio on August 4th, the celebration of the Dominican rite (Missa Canata) at St. Patrick's Church. The...
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Patriarch of Lisbon
It has been a little while since we have shown our readers any archival photographs of liturgical ceremonial, and so I thought I would share these showing the Patriarch of Lisbon. Amongst the items of...
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Clonfert Diocesan Museum: Treasure Trove of Liturgical Arts
[The following short piece was sent into us by the author, Mr. William Thomas. Readers of course know my own interest in showing vestments of various stripes and forms, including those which are in...
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Student Design for a Proposed Benedictine Monastery
One of our readers, George Logusch, a graduate student from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, sent in some watercolours and drawings of a project he worked on under Thomas Gordon...
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A Reader Challenge (Readers in Spain Take Particular Note)
I know that many of our readers are interested in older historical photographs and video of the sacred liturgy. Over the years we have presented a number of such things, including some rather rare...
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Sacred Liturgy (OF, EF, Divine Office), Fr. Aidan Nichols Feature at...
As always, NLM is very interested in liturgical activities involving both forms of the Roman liturgy, especially when this also includes the Divine Office. When one further places this within the...
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Change in the World of Catholic Music
I am receiving wonderful reports from the annual meeting of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. There is more talk of chant, more emphasis on Mass propers, a greater degree of willingness...
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Details: 19th Century Staffordshire Chasuble
Detail from an 19th-century chasuble made by the Dominican sisters at Stone, Staffordshire. Photo by Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP.
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Newly Ordained Jesuit's First EF Mass
A reader sends in the following news: Fr. William V. Blazek, S.J., newly ordained for the Jesuit Chicago-Detroit province, celebrated his first Solemn High Mass (Extraordinary Form) on June 24...
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Recently Completed Sacred Art
Here are two recently completed works of my own. The first is my own version of a Western iconography. It is Christ in Majesty and will go into the chapel at Thomas More College in Merrimack. I have...
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Statement by the U.S. Ordinariate Around the Extraordinary Form
Very recently there has been some debate and controversy around some positions attributed to the Ordinary of the American Ordinariate, Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson. Particularly, the question circulates...
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The "Lundberry Cope"
One of our readers, seeing one of our "details" series which showed a detail of a chasuble embroidered by the Dominican Sisters of the Stone Convent in Staffordshire, sends in the following bit of...
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Charlotte: Solemn Mass in the Presence of a Greater Prelate
By way of the Momentum Studio, I came across the following photos of the celebration of the Feast of St. Anne at St. Anne Parish in Charlotte; a Solemn Mass in the Presence of a Greater Prelate. (For...
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