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A Disappointment for La Guadalupana
I was once asked some years ago, by a client, to do a capriccio, or architectural fantasy, which showed what I might do with the interior of Los Angeles Cathedral if given the chance. The client began...
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ICRSS Young Adult Retreat
It is a little short notice, but the following was sent our way by one of our reader's about the ICRSS's summer camp for young adults: Sursum Corda: calling all Young Adults! August 10-13, 2012 Many...
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Today is the 7th Anniversary of the Founding of NLM
Seven years... Thank you to our readers for your support and your continuing interest
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Liturgical Music Conference, Birmingham Oratory
Father Lawrence pointed this out to me and it certainly looks rather interesting. Aside from some of the speakers, who will be well enough known to NLM readers, I also note the presence of Harry...
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The Potentialities of the English Missal for the Ordinariate and the Roman Rite
Some recent events put my mind once again to the matter of the English Missal. The English Missal, as many of you know, is essentially a hieratic English translation of the pre-conciliar Missale...
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Survey on the English Missal, Hieratic English in Roman Liturgy
Following on from our post of this morning, a survey. Please think about your answers carefully. For example, for the last question it could be easy to idealistically think, "I'd pray the EF breviary...
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Universal Calendar for the Domincan Rite now available
For those interested, I have made the Liturgical Calendar for the Dominican Rite available here, along with an explanation of its features and use. This downloadable calendar gives all celebrations of...
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The Sculpture of Tilman Riemenschneider by Christopher Blum
Here is a second in a series about late gothic sculpture. This one is written by Dr Christopher Blum and appears in Crisis Magazine (http://www.crisismagazine.com). You can find the article itself...
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Fr. Hunwicke at LMS Summer Latin Course
Yesterday we looked at the potentialities of the English Missal and considered the potential enrichment to be found within the use of a qualitative form of liturgical English within a Catholic...
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Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Simple English Propers
The Simple English Propers have created new opportunities for ordinary form parishes around the English speaking world to embrace chant for the first time. As I've said many times, this book should...
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Survey Results and Analysis: Hieratic English in the EF and the English...
[Some analysis of these results follows the results themselves. Some of you might find the section "Clergy, the EF and the Vernacular" particularly intriguing -- I certainly did.] Should the English...
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Reflections on the Transfiguration
The Transfiguration as a Symbol of the Liturgy and Our Participation in Christ's Glory by David Clayton I recently read Jean Corbon's book The Wellspring of the Worship. In it Fr Corbon describes how...
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Raphael's Transfiguration of Christ
When Raphael was commissioned to paint the Transfiguration of Christ in 1515, the feast commemorating this event in the Lord’s life was still a new one in much of Western Europe. Although it had been...
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The Potentialites for English Chant and Polyphony
We have been discussing here over the past few days the potentialities of the English Missal for the Ordinariate and also what potentialities might exist for the usus antiquior if similarly hieratic...
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Investiture in the Monastic Habit, Benedictines in Italy
It has been too long since we have shown anything monastic oriented and this video which was recently published on Messainlatino.it reminded me of this fact. As I have argued on here many times, the...
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Tune in Daily for the Divine Office from the Abbey of Le Barroux
I know we mentioned this back in December but given that the URL has changed, I wanted to remind readers of www.barrouxchant.com which (like the Benedictine Monks of Norcia) offers streaming audio of...
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Monastère Sainte Marie de Lagarde
I came across the following images of Mass offered in the usus antiquior at the Monastère Sainte Marie de Lagarde which is located a few kilometers outside the French city of Agen. The monastery of...
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A New Monastic Beer from the Monastery of Norcia: Birra Nursia
Continuing our monastic theme from yesterday, any discussion around monasticism can with the utmost of certainty involve three subjects of related discussion: (1) the sacred liturgy, (2) monastic...
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Your Assumption Day Masses
The following was sent in to us, perhaps some of you would like to publish your own events in the comments. Fr. Robert C Pasley, KCHS, Chaplain of the CMAA and Rector of Mater Ecclesiae Roman Catholic...
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St. Martin of Tours, Louisville, Kentucky
Recently, Fr. Paul Beach, JCL (the Judicial Vicar of the Archdiocese of Louisville) was installed by the Archbishop of Louisville, His Excellency Joseph E. Kurtz, as the pastor of St. Martin of Tours...
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