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Mass Propers for the Franciscans
Many orders of religious have had their own Mass propers that elaborate on the basic propers found in the Graduale Romanum, and MusicaSacra.com has worked to put these online. The latest was sent to us...
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The Indispensable Role of the Family in the New Liturgical Movement
Two weeks ago, the Holy Father encouraged all within the Church to take up the prayer of the psalms and the Divine Office, and just yesterday the Pope highlighted that "the new evangelization is...
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The Apocryphal Gospels as a Source of Imagery
I was recently asked a question about the fact that many icons of the Annunciation portray our lady holding a scarlet or purple thread. This reflects a detail that comes from one of the apocryphal...
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Simple English Propers, 2nd Sunday of Advent
As you know, the hardcopies of the Simple English Propers are on backorder, so for now you can download them at musicasacra.com/sep
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Magnificat Presents Pope Benedict XVI with their Edition of the New Roman Missal
It wasn't so long ago that the Catholic Truth Society presented a copy of their new edition of the English language Roman Missal to the Pope, and recently the NLM was informed that American publisher...
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Daniel Mitsui Illustrations for Interim Edition of Roman Pontifical
This in from Daniel Mitsui, who will be no stranger to NLM readers. NEWLY COMPLETED PROJECT: ILLUSTRATIONS for VOX CLARA PONTIFICAL Earlier this year, I was contacted by the Executive Secretary of the...
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O Felix Roma - Ambrosian, Gregorian and Norbertine Chant
Our own Henri Adams de Villiers and Philippe Guy are both involved in the Schola Sainte Cecile and recently they have put out a CD recording which is available for 10 EUR, O Felix Roma. What...
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Fr. Thomas Kocik at the College of St. Mary Magdalen
Just a very quick note to our readers that if you are in the Boston area and missed Fr. Kocik's talk at Thomas More College on the new liturgical movement, you may want to make the trip tomorrow...
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Sinterklaas; the Feast of St. Nicholas
It has become something of an annual tradition on NLM to publish a short piece recounting the person of St. Nicholas, whose feast is celebrated today in both the Roman and the Byzantine calendar, as...
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The Ordinary Form of the Bishop of Albenga-Imperia
From the Spanish blog, Acción Litúrgica, come the following photos which show a Mass celebrated by Bishop Mario Oliveri, the bishop of Albenga-Imperia (Italy) for the CofradÃa de los Disciplinantes...
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Usus Antiquior and the Hungarian Armed Forces
We have featured on more than one occasion military chaplains on this site, both past and present. Typically this has come within an American context; here, however, is another military chaplain and...
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On the Feast of St. Ambrose: Recollections (and Revivals) of Things Ambrosian
Today being the feast of St. Ambrose, that great father of the church in Milan, I thought it might be fitting to briefly quote from the biographical section related to him from Blessed Cardinal...
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On Rose Vestments
We are quickly progressing through Advent, and indeed, we are now only a few days shy of Gaudete Sunday. Gaudete Sunday, like Laetare Sunday within Lent, sees the liturgical colour of rose used -- and...
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English Chant for Immaculate Conception
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Pontifical High Mass for the Immaculate Conception - Video
Readers may recall, as reported here, that last year the Bishop of Nottingham pontificated at High Mass in the Dominican Priory church of the Holy Cross in Leicester. A video of that historic event has...
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Architecture for a New Liturgical Movement: Our Lady of the Rosary,...
For some while now, we have been meaning to tell readers of an exciting new architectural project that is taking place in connection with Fr. Dwight Longenecker. It is the church of Our Lady of the...
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Two Items for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
The following proved extremely popular last year when when we posted them on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, so I could not resist posting them again this year -- especially given that they tie...
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Why Are Some Icons and Gothic Faces Green?
I always used to wonder why some faces painted in tempera had a green tinge to them. I had been told at some point, that this was the underpainting showing through and that the colour of the skin had...
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Solemn Mass of the Last Sunday after Pentecost, Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du...
One of our readers sends in the following lovely photographs which they took when visiting the Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux. The photos show, we are told, Terce and the Mass of the Last Sunday...
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