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Dominican Rite Requiem Mass in Edinburgh
The Dominican community of the Priory of Saint Albert the Great in Edinburgh, Scotland commemorated its founding benefactors, Canon John Gray, Marc-André Sebastien Raffalovich, and Mrs Charlotte...
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Eucharistic Procession for the Feast of Christ the King - Steubenville
Students at Franciscan University of Steubenville organized a Eucharistic procession for the Feast of Christ the King (OF) this past Sunday.Despite the cold, there was a good turn out of over 500...
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Dominican Rite Masses in the SF Bay Area this Week
Missa Cantata at St. Albert's PrioryThis is a reminder for our readers in the Bay Area that the Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary will be sung according to the Dominican Rite at St. Albert...
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Ordination and Mass of Thanksgiving - Fr. David Michael Spencer
Recently, Fr. David Michael Spencer of the Mercederians was ordained to the Order of the priesthood at his home parish. Both Masses were celebrated ad orientem, and Father Spencer's set of vestments...
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Is the Medieval Liturgy a Source for the Modern Lectionary?
This article is the fourth of a five-part series occasioned by a recent article by Dr. Kwasniewski. Click the following links to read part 1, part 2 and part 3. It is a well-known characteristic of the...
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St Philip's School Confirmation and Pontifical Benediction
Here are some photographs of St Philip's School Confirmation and Pontifical Benediction which took place at the London Oratory yesterday. Bishop John Sherrington, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster,...
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Msgr. Wadsworth at Mount Calvary, Friday, December 6
Mount Calvary Catholic Church, Baltimore's Ordinariate parish, continues its new monthly First Friday Series on Friday, Dec. 6. Adoration and Confessions will begin at 5:30 pm, followed by Devotions...
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Is Your Liturgy Like What Vatican II Intended?
Although in recent years much has been done to spread an accurate knowledge of the teaching of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, we are still a long way from Pope Benedict XVI’s desire that the...
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Lessons from the Council of Trent, 450 years after it closed
Yesterday marked the 450th anniversary of the close of the Council of Trent. This is the Council that launched the Catholic Counter-Reformation stimulating, for example, the foundation of new and...
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Why Reform? Part two of Notre Dame Interview
Universality is extremely important because we don’t want music segmented by demographics if we can avoid it: there shouldn’t be one kind of music for the youth, one for the old people, and one for the...
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Juventutem DC Celebrates Feast of St. Ambrose with Day of Recollection
Juventutem DC follows up its successful Day of Recollection for All Souls Day with a December sequel: a special traditional Latin Mass and Day of Recollection for the Feast of St. Ambrose on Dec. 7....
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The Feast of St. Saba
Today is the feast of one of the great Patriarchs of Eastern monasticism, Saint Sabbas, who is usually given the epithet “the Sanctified” in the Byzantine Rite. Born in the year 439, he died at the age...
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Reminder: Norcia Calendars for 2014
On this feast of Saint Nicholas, when in many parts of the Catholic world it has been a centuries-old custom to give small gifts, it occurred to me to remind fellow lovers of the liturgy that the 2014...
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Dominican Rite Breviary Ordo for 2014 Available
Through the kindness of our friends at Breviarium S.O.P., I am pleased to make available a 2014 Ordo for use with the Dominican Rite Breviary. It may be purchased here.I also remind readers that the...
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Carols for the suffering Church in Syria
There will be a Carol Service this Wednesday at 7pm at St Mary Moorfields Church in London to raise money for Aid to the Church in Need's appeal for the Church in Syria. Admission is free with a...
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Gaudete Sunday - A Liturgical Formation Seminars in Hong Kong
The Tridentine Liturgy Community of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong “Mary Help of Christians” is offering a series of liturgical formation seminars, the first of which will take place next Sunday....
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What is a Carol?
Although most of us would generally define a carol as a verse song written for Christmas, the origins of the carol are quite different. In medieval England, carolers would stand in a circle and sing a...
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Liturgical Notes on the Immaculate Conception
This year, the feast of the Immaculate Conception falls on a Sunday; in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, the Sundays of Advent are given precedence over all feasts, and so the feast is translated...
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Paul VI: A Pope of Contradictions
Fifty years ago, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, was promulgated by Pope Paul VI and nearly all the fathers of the conciliar assembly. Having...
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Position Paper on Communion Under the Species of Bread Alone
Readers of NLM will definitely want to have a look at the latest of the Position Papers commissioned by the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce. The new Positio -- number 17 in this already classic...
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