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The Vesting of a Bishop in East and West
Back in October of 2008 we showed readers some video of the beautiful and profound pontifical vesting rites of the usus antiquior and we also showed to you some stills from the vesting of a bishop...
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Giveaway Draw for NLM Readers: Enter Now
Nova et Vetera has offered to give away a copy of their reprint of Archdale King's Liturgies of the Past ($100 USD value) to one lucky NLM reader Enter Now To enter the draw, leave one comment in the...
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Msgr. Valentin Miserarchs Grau: "The rampant wave of false and truly dreadful...
Continuing on with our coverage of some of the presentations given at the FIUV's 20th general assembly in Rome this past November, we now turn to Msgr. Valentin Miserachs Grau's considerations of...
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The Pontifical Vesting Prayers of the Usus Antiquior
As a follow up to yesterday’s post on the rite of vesting a bishop for the celebration of Mass, we here present the Pontifical vesting prayers of the Missal of St. Pius V in Latin and an original NLM...
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Don Giuseppe Vallauri: The Silent Prayers of the Roman Liturgy
Continuing on with our coverage of some of the presentations given at the FIUV's 20th general assembly in Rome this past November, we now turn to a paper by Don Giuseppe Vallauri, FDP, of the Orionist...
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Christmas in America
St. Theresa's, Sugarland, Texas * * * Christ the King, Sarasota, FL * * * Blessing of Children on Christmas Day, Chicago
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Usus Antiquior in India
The website of Messainlatino.it have some interesting photos up of the usus antiquior celebrated in India. The first, coming from another blog, Te Igitur, shows the weekly Sunday Mass which takes place...
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Christmas in France
We now turn our attention to France beginning with the FSSP parish in Bordeaux (the first two photos are from the Midnight Mass and the remainder from one of the Masses of Christmas Day): * * * Next,...
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Christmas in Hong Kong
Tomorrow is the Octave day of the Christmas octave, and so I wish to wrap up our series of Christmas Masses posts with this Christmas Mass from Hong Kong. We have been very blessed this year to have...
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Top Ten Things I’ve Learned about Sacred Music
Ten years ago, I knew next to nothing about Catholic music. I knew that something was not right in the parish music program. I had some sense that the fix for the problem was somewhere in our history...
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Publication of the Date of Easter on the Day of the Epiphany
Epiphany is the last principal feast before the beginning of the Easter cycle. In this day, the Roman Pontifical (Pars III. De Publicatione festorum Mobilium in Epiphania Domini) gives the how to...
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Gospel Canticles in Dominican Chant
I am pleased to announce the first new book from Dominican Liturgy Publications for the year 2012. We have just published, in paper, the booklet Cantica Evangelica, which contains fully noted texts for...
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Midnight Mass, St. George Cathedral, Southwark, London
These videos are treasures and they should be viewed carefully by every reader and sent to every pastor and music director without exception. They provide an outstanding model of how it can be done....
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Should An Icon Be Veiled?
In a recent discussion about the tradition of placing metal cladding around some icons, it was suggested that one purpose of the cladding was to convey a theological message. It performed the function...
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A Monk of Le Barroux on the Monastic Vocation
While this video is not specifically about the sacred liturgy, insofar as the monastic vocation revolves around the sacred liturgy of the Church, which is to say Mass and the Divine Office, it is...
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The Santo Bambino of Aracœli
Since we are still in Christmastide, I would like to share my favourite prayer to the Divine Infant. It is originally directed to the Santo Bambino, the Holy Infant which is venerated in the Roman...
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