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Inspiration from a small Roman basilica
A recent pilgrimage to Rome for the Year of Faith gave me an opportunity to re-visit some of the early Christian basilicas. There are the well-known basilicas of the first millennium of Christian...
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The "dangers and limitations of archaeologism" and other matters
In a wonderful and extended interview with Dom Alcuin Reid that appears in the Catholic World Report, Dom Reid says of Sacra Liturgy 2013:CWR: What are the most evident fruits of the conference? Dom...
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Extraordinary Form Requiem Mass at Westminster Abbey
An Extraordinary Form Requiem took place at Westminster Abbey on Friday celebrated by Dom Alban Nunn OSB, a monk of Ealing Abbey. The Requiem was offered for Queen Edith, the wife of Saint Edward the...
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David Hiley's Western Plainchant: A Handbook
David Hiley's book Western Plainchant: A Handbook, published in 1993, remains the definitive entry point to chant scholarship and reference source for myriad subjects in the field. Hiley's book...
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Comparing the EF and OF
Readers here might be interested in a show ("Forward Boldly," hosted by Christine Niles) scheduled for tonight at 10 p.m. ET during which Catholic blogger Matthew Arnold will discuss characteristics...
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Extraordinary Form, Odessa, Texas
Fr. Mark Woodruff has begun offering a monthly Extraordinary Form Mass in the Diocese of San Angelo, TX. The Mass takes place on the last Sunday of the Month at St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in...
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Mary Magdalene and the Empty Room
Giacomo Galli, The Penitent Mary Magdalene On this feastday of St. Mary Magdalene, we might reflect on a curious detail recorded about her. In St. Luke’s Gospel, we read: “Soon afterward he went on...
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The Cathedral and the Casino
I hope you like my latest at Crisis Magazine, which reflects on a recent visit to Vegas. It concludes as follows: Secular institutions thrive on creating spaces that are driven and purposeful, that...
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The Essence of a Catholic Education is a Formation in the Liturgy
How do you teach Catholic engineering? How do you train a plumber to be a Catholic plumber? Is there such a thing? The answer it seems is very simple, but very powerful: it lies in a formation in the...
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The Armenian Mekhitarists of Venice
San Lazzaro degli Armine is one of the smaller islands in the Venetian lagoon. A former leper colony, the island is now home to a monastery founded in 1717 by Abbot Mekhitar which is the mother house...
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Procession in Peoria, 1932
Here is some rare footage of Bishop Joseph Henry Leo Schlarman processing into St. Mary's Cathedral to administer the sacrament of Confirmation on children from Guardian Angel Home Orphanage, Peoria,...
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Youth, and the Attraction to Tradition
An article in the Florida Catholic draws attention to young people attracted to the Traditional Latin Mass: CORAL GABLES | Joshua Hernandez is a former Protestant who credits the traditional Latin...
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Juventutem in Rio
Bishop Rifan celebrated a pontifical High Mass yesterday as a highlight of the Juventutem activities in Rio. The Mass at the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel was preceded by catechesis earlier in the...
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"Participation" by Msgr Richard Schuler
This article, appearing in the Winter 1987 (114.4) issue of Sacred Music by Msgr. Richard J. Schuler, is particularly helpful not only in distinguishing participatio activa and participatio actuosa...
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Interview with Cardinal Burke
Today Zenit published an interview with His Eminence, Cardinal Burke. The interview is a follow-up to the Sacra Liturgia conference, but offers his thoughts on a wide-range of liturgical issues,...
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Pope Innocent III on the Four Kinds of Marriage (for the Feast of SS. Joachim...
Juan de Flandes, The Marriage Feast at Cana (1500) In honor of the Feast of Saints Joachim and Anne—a day that beckons us to meditate on the holiness of marriage between man and woman as God the...
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Carmelite EF Liturgical Books Needed for a Seminarian
A Carmelite seminarian from Mexico recently contacted me saying that he can not find all the necessary books to celebrate the liturgy in the EF specific to the Carmelites. If you have any of the...
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The Radiance of Being - A New Book by Stratford Caldecott
In the opening talk at Sacra Liturgia 2013 the wonderful Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Sri Lanka mentioned, almost in passing, it seemed to me, how important he felt it was that we assert the Pauline...
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A First Mass in the Diocese of Southwark
Here are some photos of Fr. Valentine Erhahon's First Mass at St Elizabeth’s Parish, Richmond in the Diocese of Southwark, UK. The Mass took place on Sunday 21 July 2013. The Schola, made up of...
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EF from Ukraine
A reader recently sent in these lovely pictures from a pilgrimage in the Ukraine. For those who read Polish, there is more information here.
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