Compendium of the 1961 Revision of the Pontificale Romanum - Part 5.1: The...
In the 1917 Code of Canon Law, a church or cemetery is considered to be profaned or violated if a murder, or violent and serious bloodshed, takes place within it, if it is used for impious or unclean...
View ArticleSolemn High Mass for the Feast of Saint Mark, St. Paul's, Harvard Square
From the redoubtable folks at Juventutem Boston and the Harvard Latin Mass Society comes this wonderful bit of news:Fr. John Zuhlsdorf will be offering our first Solemn High Mass on Thursday, April 25,...
View ArticleBishop of Nottingham Celebrates Pontifical Mass for LMS Training Conference
Recently, the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales's (LMS) annual training conference for priests and servers wishing to learn the Traditional Latin Mass took place at Ratcliffe College near...
View ArticleRecently Formed Oratory in Maine Admits First Novice
The recently formed Fraternity of St Philip Neri which is at Lewiston in Maine, receives its first novice this coming month. Tyler Tracey will be formally admitted at a ceremony at 5.30pm at the...
View ArticleBishop Dominique Rey on Sacra Liturgia 2013
ROME, 25TH-28TH JUNE 2013 PRESS RELEASERome Media Reception with Bishop Dominique Rey, April 23, 2013 Thank you for your presence this evening. Sacra Liturgia 2013 is an event that follows on from the...
View ArticleEF at Franciscan University of Steubenville
A reader from the Franciscan University of Steubenville sends in these photos of a Solemn Mass offered there on April 21st. The celebrant was Fr. Gregory Plow, TOR, the deacon was Fr. John Larson, MIC,...
View ArticleThe Benedictines of Mary
From a reader:Earlier this month, two Sisters of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles made their First Profession at The Priory of Our Lady of Ephesus, in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph,...
View ArticleCompendium of the 1961 Revision of the Pontificale Romanum - Part 5.2: The...
In the 1961 revision of the Pontifical, the reconciliation of a violated church is definitively separated from that of violated cemetery. The latter will be treated in a separate article. The color of...
View ArticleRequiem in Louisville for a 97 Year Old Priest
Fr. Paul Beach recently celebrated the requiem of a 97 year old priest, Fr. Charles Schoenbaechler, CR, a proponent and devotee of the usus antiquior:He had celebrated the Extraordinary Form of the...
View ArticleLiturgical Developments in San Francisco
One of our readers sent this news in:At the request of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite will begin to be celebrated at Star of the Sea Parish, 4420 Geary...
View ArticleSacred Art and the Franciscans
Following the excellent feature introduced by Shawn Tribe - The Sacred Liturgy and the Apostolate - on how liturgy is the 'indespensable' source of momentum for increased charity and social and...
View ArticleSolemn Requiem of Dom Philip Anderson, OSB in Melbourne
Here are some photos of a Solemn Requiem Mass offered for deceased servicemen on April 25th by the Dom Philip Anderson, OSB (Abbot of Clear Creek Abbey in Tulsa, Oklahoma) which was offered in...
View ArticleDominican House Chapel, Lviv
Some photos of the recently finished Dominican house chapel in Lviv. The iconography is quite exquisite. Thanks to Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP, for bringing it to my attention.
View ArticleMass in Kyoto, Japan
We had a great deal of interest in our post related to the usus antiquior in Japan, and so readers might be interested in the following which show photos from an EF Mass offered at St. Viator...
View ArticlePentecost Pilgrimages
Recently it came mind that we are fast approaching the annual Chartres Pilgrimage (see above) which, this year, will take place from May 18-20th. In the same vein, we have often reported on other...
View ArticleFr. Reginald Foster in North Carolina for Latin Intensive Program
Veterum Sapientia is an intensive week-long ecclesiastical Latin program largely for, but not exclusive to, priests, religious, and seminarians. It will take place at Belmont Abbey College outside...
View ArticlePhotographs from the Pontifical Liturgy According to the Liturgical Books of...
I have shown some of these photos before here, some in relation to an article I did on the Pontifical form of the Lyonese rite in 2010, and another in one of our quizzes, but I have never shown them...
View ArticleKeys to Good Liturgical Music: Training and Inspiration
A large part of the credit for the revival of great liturgical music in the Catholic world goes to the existence and persistence of the Sacred Music Colloquium as sponsored by the Church Music...
View ArticleBishop Rey on Liturgy in the New Evangelization
Liturgy in the New Evangelisation (Vatican Radio) The Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon, France, has organised a conference to study, promote and renew the appreciation of liturgical formation and celebration...
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