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20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our schola this week will use a combination of the Graduale Romanum plus the Simple English Propers. And we'll also sing this marvelous motet by Josquin, Tu Solus:
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Some Assumption Masses
Continuing on with some of our coverage of the Feast of the Assumption we turn to the Mater Eccelsiae community in Merchantville, New Jersey who report a very healthy turnout of over 1000 people. * * *...
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Two Masses in Spain
By way of one of our readers and also by way of Accion Liturgica, a few photos coming from the first Masses of two priests of Santa Maria Reina. We begin with that of Fr. José Manuel MarÃa in his home...
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Steven Schloeder: "The Myth of the Domus Ecclesiae"
The August edition of Adoremus Bulletin is now online, and I see it includes an interesting sounding article from architect Steven Schloeder, The Myth of the Domus Ecclesiae -- and how this has...
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Solemn Mass at Miami's Gesu
Festal liturgical photos tend to beget more festal liturgical photos and as often as not this is a great blessing, which is certainly the case here. One of our readers send in news and photos of a...
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Feast of St. Rocco in Val Vigezzo
Speaking personally, I always enjoy seeing liturgies celebrated in different places in the world, particularly festal liturgies which involve processions as it provides a real opportunity to look for...
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Feast of the Assumption with the Institut of St. Philpp Neri, Berlin (and...
Photo source: www.institut-philipp-neri.de * * *Looking at the above photos, I couldn't help but notice the vestments and their design, which seem as though they would fit within our Other Modern...
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Our Lady of Providence
Fr. Jay Finelli, the iPadre, sent in some photos of Our Lady of Providence in Providence, built by Bishop Russell J. McVinney in 1959, serving as a high school and college seminary. Here are a few...
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Blessing of Honey at a Russian Monastery
It has been awhile since we featured something from the Christian East, and by way of Byzantine, TX, I ran into the following images which show the blessing of honey from the Optina Monastery in...
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Oddities: The Byzantine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom - in Latin and Greek
I saw this referenced on the Byzantine Catholic Forum and found it rather interesting as a kind of liturgical oddity. It is a text which presents the Byzantine liturgy in a parallel Latin-Greek...
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St John of the Cross and the Artistic Portrayal of the Joyful Pilgrimage
In the Office of Readings, Friday, Week 18, the reading is taken from the Spiritual Canticle of St John of the Cross. In it he indicates that the saints in heaven are in union with God through love. He...
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Two Interesting Videos from the Getty Museum
I recently came across the following videos on the youtube channel of the Getty Museum, both of which are well worth your time. The first is titled "The Icons of Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai,...
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21st Sunday, English Propers
The Simple English Propers are the most widely sung vernacular versions of the Mass propers in the English-speaking world.
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Assumption Grotto Restores High Altar
Whenever photos are shown here of a sanctuary which has two altars -- the historical high altar and a newer altar before it -- there are often comments which lament this situation -- usually for a few...
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Monthly EF at Filipino Catholic University
The following was sent to NLM yesterday: In coordination with Societas Ecclesia Dei Sancti Ioseph {Ecclesia Dei Scoeity of St. Joseph} - Una Voce Philippines the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass...
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Back in Print: Byzantine Daily Worship
Whether you are a regular or occasional attendee of the Byzantine liturgy, or whether you simply are one who is interested in the Byzantine liturgy, you may find the following of interest. Namely,...
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Conference Notice: The Glory of Catholic Architecture
There is a rather promising looking conference being held Liturgical Institute in Mundelein this October 25-26: The Glory of Catholic Architecture - Renewing Tradition, Re-Engaging the Heavenly. Before...
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More from the Carmelite Rite
I was pretty well considering any further photos of the Assumption now likely "outside the pale", but I am happy to make an exception for the following few for the reason that they come within the...
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Gloria in English, Both Modern and Beautiful
Many Catholics are understandably skeptical of the idea that a setting of the Gloria could be in English, modern, and also beautiful in the liturgical sense. Decades of experience have convinced many...
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