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2012 Fota Conference Theme Announced: "Celebrating the Eucharist: Sacrifice...
St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the Fifth Fota International Liturgy Conference will be held in Cork, Ireland, on 7-9 July 2012. The Conference theme is:...
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Divine Office at Le Barroux Online
Good news from the traditional Benedictine Abbey of Le Barroux in France: it is now possible to follow (part of) the Divine Office sung by the monks according to the Extraordinary Form live via...
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Every Artist Should Buy and Read this Book: Techniques of Icon and Wall...
Now that I have received and read it, here is a more detailed opinion! This is the best art instruction book I know of. In my opinion it should be read and absorbed by all artists regardless of the...
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Book Notice: Anton Baumstark - On the Historical Development of the Liturgy
Just a quick book notice I received yesterday from the Liturgical Press; while they are sending a review copy for NLM to review, I felt a number of our readers would be interested in at least knowing...
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Wyoming Catholic College Seeks Full-Time OF/EF Chaplain
It is a rather encouraging thing to hear from Catholic liberal arts colleges when they are looking for a chaplain these days. (It is something I've heard from a few different academic institutions...
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One Month Out: Reactions to the Revised English Translation of the Roman Missal
We are now just about one month into the new English translation of the Roman Missal and it seems fitting to take a moment to review some of the reaction so far. One common refrain I have heard is that...
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Where Have All the Catholic Writers Gone?
Robert Fay has written an article which has appeared over on The Millions, Where Have All the Catholic Writers Gone?. In his article he comments: "There was a time in the middle of the 20th Century...
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A Medieval Liturgical 'Commentary' on the O Antiphons - Part 2
In the Middle Ages, many uses of the Roman Rite added one or more new O antiphons to the well-known ancient series of seven. Of these additions, the first given here, O Virgo virginum, was certainly...
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Dom Alcuin Reid on Praying the Christmas Liturgy
[The following article appeared in this week's print edition of The Catholic Herald and is reprinted here with permission] * * * Praying the Christmas Liturgy by Dom Alcuin Reid “I’ve also got to ‘get...
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Dominican Chant for Matthew's Genealogy of Jesus Christ
In time for Christmas, we are making available the Dominican Chant for the Genealogy of Jesus Christ According to Matthew, found in the appendix to the Missale Ordinis Praedicatorum. Traditionally part...
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Latin Revival?
Wednesday, in the National Catholic Register, we read that Latin Makes a Comeback. Here is an excerpt: While the revival of Latin may be welcome on purely academic terms, the language has special...
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English Propers for the Mass for Christmas Day
I'm particularly pleased with these because the beautifully echo the Gregorian. (I won't be posting the midnight Mass or Mass at dawn, but you can find them all at the Watershed Youtube site) One final...
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Christmas Schedules: You Post
As always, times of the liturgical year like these see numerous requests for NLM to publish Mass schedules. Of course, it would be impossible for us to publish all of them. However, as usual, I want to...
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A Very Merry Christmas
Jean Bourdichon, Nativity, 1498-99. Collection of the Victoria and Albert MuseumAll of us here at the New Liturgical Movement would like to wish each and everyone one of you a blessed, happy and holy...
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The Adoration of the Shepherds by Jusepe de Ribera
Here is an offering as a Christmas meditation. In the 17th century baroque naturalism of Ribera. His is a genuine naturalism in which there are not even any halos. How wonderfully he presents this...
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Christmas in Shanghai
Our first Christmas photos come from Shanghai, China. This particular Mass was celebrated according to the usus antiquior.
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Christmas in Imperia
For our second bit of Christmas coverage, we turn to Italy and the following photos which one of our readers sent in, showing the third Mass of Christmas (usus antiquior) as celebrated in the Chiesa è...
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Christmas in Iowa
Christmas at St. Anthony's Church, Des Moines, Iowa. The celebrant was Msgr. Frank Chiodo.
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Cardinal Ranjith: "The time has come..." Powerful Letter on the Usus...
The 20th general assembly of the FIUV (Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce) was held this past November 5-6 in Rome, and on December 19th the same issued their written report coming out of that general...
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Don Stefano Carusi on the Raison d'Etre of the Institute of the Good Shepherd
Earlier today I published a powerful letter from Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith which was addressed to the participants of the recent FIUV assembly in Rome. At that time I had mentioned there were various...
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