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Methods of Hearing the Mass
I was priviledged to attend a talk given by a canon of the Institute of Christ the King sponsored by a local branch of Juventutem on the method devised by St. Francis de Sales of hearing the mass. As...
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Pilgrimage in Rio de Janeiro
On October 13th, approximately 600 people made pilgrimage in Rio de Janeiro at the Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Penha de France. The Mass was celebrated by a priest of the Apostolic Administration,...
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Liturgical Products from Monasteries
There are a few products of a liturgical bent which have come our way from two different Benedictine monasteries that I wished to mention to our readers. The first comes from the Monastere Saint-Benoit...
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Fr. Tim Finigan Report on the CCC Colloquium
Father Tim Finigan provides us with a report on the Autumn colloquium of the British province of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy which took place from October 23-24 at the Reading Oratory School...
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The Treasury of Ornament: Pattern in the Decorative Arts by Heinrich Dometsch.
Here is a book worth considering for students of traditional patterned art. The series is the Library of Design and the title is Treasury of Ornament - Pattern in the Decorative Arts by Heinrich...
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Dom Mark Daniel Kirby on The Ordinary Form after "Summorum Pontificum"
Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, OSB, Prior of Silverstream Priory and blogger at "Vultus Christi" has written a very interesting article recently there, The Ordinary Form after "Summorum Pontificum". Now I...
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Sights and Sounds of a Young North Carolina Priest's First Mass
It is more and more common these days to hear about new, young priests who, shortly after their ordination (and sometimes immediately thereafter) make efforts to celebrate Mass according to the usus...
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Calming the Storm
One of our readers comments, on this day in which many of our readers (and this correspondent) on the eastern seaboard of North America are starting to bear the brunt of Hurricane Sandy, to remind us...
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Premonstratensian Chant from St. Michael's Abbey
Milan Records is publishing their fourth CD of Premonstratensian chant coming from St. Michael's Abbey in Orange County, California. The CD in question is called "Gregorian Chant: Together On The Way"...
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NLM Notice
By now, many of you will have no doubt heard of the hurricane that is hitting the north-eastern part of North America. As I sit here, the wind gusts are becoming quite fierce and various potentialities...
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The Feast of Christ the King in Toledo, Spain
We have shared photos many time before from the Fraternidad de Cristo Sacerdote y Santa María Reina in Toledo, Spain, and here they are again this past Sunday, which was the Feast of Christ the King in...
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Lumen Christi: A New Pew Book for the Ordinary Form
Musician Adam Bartlett has been very busy for the last twelve months on a project I suspected was extremely important to the future of Catholic liturgy. He tried many times to engage me and talk to me...
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Christ the King, in the EF, in Chile
Before we move into All Saints and All Souls (and readers, do send in your photos, most esepcially of All Souls Day), I wanted to share one more photoset from the Feast of Christ the King in the usus...
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The Wall Street Journal on Abbot Suger and Sacred Art
Opulence Fit for the King of Kings By E.A. CARMEAN JR. It is one of the greatest liturgical objects of the Medieval world. Known as the Chalice of Abbot Suger, it was made about 1140 and used for more...
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Cardinal Cañizares: "...it is normal to use the 1962 missal"
Some of our readers will already know that, beginning today and lasting until November 3rd, an usus antiquior focused pilgrimage is taking place in Rome, tied to the Year of Faith. The pilgrimage in...
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The Feast of All Saints - 2012
From the Breviary according to the use of the Roman Curia, 1529, the beginning of the sermon for the third day in the Octave of All Saints: Today we venerate the memory of all the Saints in a single...
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Responsorial Psalms Notated for Organists and Cantors
The following was sent into NLM recently by the folks over at Corpus Christi Watershed: For the first time in history, a complete collection of Responsorial Psalms has been published with each verse...
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Some Reading for All Souls Day
For those of you looking for some All Souls Day inspired reading, I wanted to give some linkages back to some of the pieces we have shared on this day over the past few years. 2011: The "Hymnus ad...
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The Feast of All Saints - 2012: the Virgin Mary
From the Breviary according to the use of the Roman Curia, 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the third day in the Octave of All Saints. Among all those whom the world has brought forth from the...
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