First Latin-Italian Hand Missal Published
LAS (Libreria Ateneo Salesiano, the publishing house of Rome's Pontifical Salesian University) has recently published the first Latin-Italian hand missal since the liturgical reforms after the Second...
View ArticleSolemn Pontifical Mass in Salzburg for the Feast of St. Sebastian
We were very pleased to be sent the following photos of a Solemn Pontifical Mass offered by Mgr. Vitus Huonder on the feast day of St. Sebastian, January 20th, at St. Sebastian Church in Salzburg. (The...
View ArticleCall For Papers: Sacred Liturgy and Sacred Music Conference in St. Paul,...
[The following was sent our way. It looks like a very interesting conference and it is also a call for papers take note. So whether you might like to simply plan to attend, or if you aspire to possibly...
View ArticleDigitalised Manuscripts from the Vatican Library
The Vatican Apostolic Library has uploaded 265 digitalised manuscripts to its website. This is part of an ongoing project to digitalise all of its invaluable manuscripts. Among these treasures are such...
View ArticleCompendium of the 1961 Revision of the Pontificale Romanum - Introduction
The purpose of this series is not to give a general history of the Pontificale Romanum per se, but only to describe the reform of a single part, the second of the three sections into which the book is...
View ArticleWhat Teaches the Greatest Wisdom - Poetry, Prose or Beautiful Art and Music?
An education in truths that cannot be expressed in words. I have just read the Love of Learning and the Desire for God, by Jean Leclerq. This provoked a number of thoughts. In it he describes various...
View ArticleCompendium of the 1961 Revision of the Pontificale Romanum - Part 1.1: The...
The ceremony begins with the blessing of holy water, with the regular blessing found in the Rituale Romanum. (Some of the rites in the Pontifical have a special form for blessing the holy water which...
View ArticleCandlemas with the Ordinariate in England
On the Candlemas, Saturday Feb. 2nd, another individual was received into the church by way of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, this time in the church of St. Mary, Cadogan Street....
View ArticleRenovation: Holy Innocents, Long Beach, California
One of our readers brings to our attention yet another before and after renovation, and one which also includes the parish returning to ad orientem. The parish is Holy Innocents Catholic Church in Long...
View ArticleNew Oratorian Priest's Mass at the London Oratory
It is always a delight to get photos and news from any of the English Oratories, and this is no exception. Fr. Richard Duncan, C.O., was ordained on Friday, February 1st at the Birmingham Oratory, and...
View ArticleSt. Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal: Part 6
Guest article by Jeff OstrowskiThe following article is the conclusion of a six-part series in which it has been my great honor to discuss various aspects and "highlights" of the 992-page St. Edmund...
View ArticleOrdinariate Sisters Return to Walsingham
Two sisters of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham will return to Walsingham this month to assist with the apostolic work of the National Shrine of Our Lady. Sister Jane Louise and...
View ArticleChapel Renovation, Jesuit High School, Tampa, Florida
AfterBeforeSome of our readers may recall the name of Joel Pidel, a friend and classmate ('05) of mine at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, as our past collaboration on a shrine...
View ArticleCompendium of the 1961 Revision of the Pontificale Romanum - Part 1.2: The...
For a description of this ceremony in the Pontifical of Clement VIII, click here. The rubrics of the ceremony presume that holy water is blessed beforehand, rather than as part of the ceremony; of...
View ArticleSolemn Pontifical Mass of Bishop Elliott for 10th Anniversary of Melbourne EF...
NLM received notice recently that the Catholic Community of Bl. John Henry Newman celebrated their 10th anniversary at St. Aloysius' Church this past Sunday. As part of that, a Solemn Pontifical Mass...
View ArticleRenovation: Monastery of the Infant Jesus of Prague, Traverse City, Michigan
Last April, we showed to our readers a proposed renovation of a Carmelite Monastery in Traverse City, Michigan. That renovation, which was undertaken by Duncan Stroik, has since then been accomplished,...
View ArticleIn Utroque Usu: Checking in with the Orange County Norbertines
In Orange County, California, the Norbertines of St. Michael's Abbey are not only known for their approach to the modern Roman liturgy, they also celebrate a great many Masses according to the usus...
View ArticleQuarant’Ore at Holy Innocents, New York City
From a reader in New York City:At the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City, 1-3 February 2013, a 40-Hours Devotion, (Quarant’Ore) to coincide with the completion of the restoration of the mural...
View ArticleWestminster Cathedral Choir and the Sistine Chapel Choir
From the 11th International Festival of Sacred Music and Art comes the following full length recording in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, featuring the Westminster Cathedral Choir and the Sistine...
View ArticleFFI in Connectcut
We recently received a very pleasant note from the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate of Our Lady of Guadalupe Friary in Griswold, Connecticut. There they recently celebrated Candlemas according to...
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