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"The effect was stunning"
Here is Deacon Pat Cunningham's final homily to Holy Spirit Parish, San Antonio, Texas. The two paragraphs before the peroration are pertinent to the cause of good liturgy.Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time...
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Happy news from Rome
Happy News from Rome that Monsignor Philip Whitmore Prot. Ap is to be the new Rector of the Venerable English College. Monsignor Whitmore has worked for many years in the Vatican's Secretariat of...
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What is a catafalque and why is it used?
The catafalque is either an empty casket or a wooden form made to look like a casket that is covered by the black pall and surrounded by six unbleached (orange) candles (when they are available); it...
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Course Teaching About the Christian Traditions in Art - good for Artists,...
Just following on from my posting a couple of days ago about the Russian art school in Florence that teaches the naturalistic tradition and has a Christian ethos, I remind our readers of the Maryvale...
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St Philip's Day at the Oxford Oratory
St Philip's Day Mass at the Oxford Oratory was celebrated by the Rt. Rev. Dom. Cuthbert Brogan OSB, Abbot of Farnborough. The mass setting was Missa Vestiva i Colli by Ruggiero Giovanelli. During the...
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More on Sacra Liturgia 2013
With the date of Sacra Liturgia quickly approaching (I'm excited to be speaking at this event), here is an interview with Dom Alcuin Reid in the Catholic World Report. Excerpt: It’s now clearly up to...
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60 Minutes on Antoni Gaudí and the Sagrada Família.
And speaking of modern churches… I recently had a conversation about St. Peter’s Basilica with a woman who just had been to Barcelona, in the course of which she told me that she found Antoni Gaudí’s...
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Academy of Sacred Music: Masterclass with Joseph Cullen
News Item: In a significant milestone in the development of the Academy of Sacred Music, world-class choral maestro, Joseph Cullen, marked the official launch of The Academy's Masterclass Series with a...
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Registration now open for Musica Sacra Scotland
You can now register online for the Musica Sacra Scotland Conference which is being held in Glasgow on Saturday 9 November 2013. From the Musica Sacra Scotland website:The programme content has been...
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Benedict XVI and the Roman Missal
This month the Four Courts Press will publish Benedict XVI and the Roman Missal, edited by Janet E. Rutherford and Monsignor James O’Brien. It is the proceedings of the Fourth Fota International...
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If you live on the West Coast USA, get thee to Salt Lake
It's all happening this coming week in Salt Lake City -- the most beautiful Roman Rite liturgy you might ever experience. Here is a round up of what you can attend.
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Comment Etiquette and Comment Rules
Here is a reminder to commenters about the proper use of the comment box, posted here in 2009 by NLM founder Shawn Tribe: I need to inform readers that, while I have not made the decision yet, I am...
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What is a Baculus Cantoralis and why do you need one?
The Baculus Cantoralis, to give it one of its many names, is a large staff held by a Choirmaster or Cantor which originates in Benedictine Monasteries of the 10th and 11th centuries. It is sometimes...
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The Miraculous Responsory of St. Anthony of Padua
R. Si quaeris miracula, R. If you ask for miracles Mors, error calamitas, Death, error, all calamaties Daemon, lepra fugiunt,...
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St Anthony of Padua
To mark the Feast Day here are paintings of Anthony of Padua by Sir Anthony Van Dyck. Van Dyck was a pupil of Rubens. A star at a young age (his portraits painted when he was a teenager are...
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Pontifical Mass from Saarlouis, Germany
Our most recent post brings us to Saarlouis, Germany, where Msgr. Athanasius Schneider celebrated a Solemn Pontifical Mass in a church run by the FSSP.
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Fr.Anthony Uy's Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving - Vancouver
Recently in Vancouver, Canada, Fr. Anthony Uy, FSSP, was ordained at the seminary in Nebraska, and on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, celebrated is Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving in his parish. I...
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Ordinariate Evensong at the Little Oratory
On Thursday evening the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham celebrated Choral Evensong and Solemn Benediction at the Little Oratory in London. The service preceded a talk entitled 'The...
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Compendium of the 1961 Revision of the Pontificale Romanum - Part 11.2: The...
After the blessing of an image of the Virgin Mary, the revised Pontifical of 1961 adds a ceremony that is not included in the Pontifical of Clement VIII, an “Order for Crowning an Image of the Virgin...
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Notre Dame comes to Westminster
Notre Dame is celebrating its 850th anniversary this year in fitting style: a new set of bells was commissioned for the Jubilee which you can read about over at FrZ and a new updated console has been...
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