Sacrosanctum Concilium and the New Lectionary
This article is the last of a five-part series occasioned by a recent article by Dr Kwasniewski. Click the following links to read part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4. The final question which I wish to...
View ArticleFirst Missa Cantata in 50 Years - Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians,...
Recently, the first Missa Cantata in 50 years was celebrated at the Shrine of Our Lady Help of Christians with the cooperation of the local ICKSP parish. In addition to the ordinary, several Kevin...
View ArticleSolemn Evensong for Gaudete Sunday, Mount Calvary, December 15
Please join Mount Calvary, Baltimore's Ordinariate parish, for a special Advent Choral Evensong and Benediction at 4:30pm this Sunday, December 15, for one of Mount Calvary's best traditions. Music...
View ArticleDominican Rite Solemn Mass of the Immaculate Conception, San Francisco CA
I have the pleasure of posting the following photographs of the Solemn High Dominican Rite Mass celebrated for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in San...
View ArticleThe London Oratory Carol Service
The London Oratory Carol Service takes place on Thursday 19 December at 7.30pm featuring both the Junior and Senior Choirs of the Oratory. The Carol Service was reviewed by the Daily Telegraph in 2009....
View ArticleEvangelii Gaudium - Pope Francis on the Way of Beauty and Sacred Art
This is the first short article in which I offer some reaction to the apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium of Pope Francis.In this he referred directly to Pope Benedict's phrase, the 'via...
View ArticleInterview with Cardinal Burke on Summorum Pontificum, Canon 915, Worthy...
The interview with His Eminence, Cardinal Burke, begins at 8:59.
View ArticleThe Liturgy, Fifty Years after Sacrosanctum Concilium - An Interview with Dom...
The website of Catholic World Report has an excellent interview with Dom Alcuin Reid on the legacy of Sacrosanctum Concilium, published last Friday on the document’s 50th anniversary. Here are a few...
View ArticleDominican Solemn Masses in the San Francisco Bay Area
Dominican Solemn Mass: The ElevationThis is a reminder for our readers in the Bay Area that the "Rorate" Mass of the Wednesday Ember Day of Advent will be celebrated as a Solemn Mass of the Dominican...
View ArticlePutting Christ at the Center: On the Benedictine Arrangement
Pope Benedict XVI was well known for introducing, in the context of the celebration of the modern Roman Rite, a more traditional arrangement of the candles and crucifix upon the altar—namely, the “big...
View ArticleSend in your photos from Gaudete Sunday
As long-time readers know, it has been our custom for years at New Liturgical Movement to showcase reader-submitted photographs of beautiful liturgies Eastern and Western, and according to both the...
View ArticleSeveral Liturgical Events from Melbourne, Australia from December
Recently, the active the Catholic Community of Bl. John Henry Newman in Melbourne has had several liturgies of note, including a solemn Mass for the feast of St. Nicholas and Solemn Vespers for the...
View ArticleIs Pope Francis Really So Down on Sacred Liturgy? I Don't Think So
I have heard some express disappointment that there was not enough emphasis on the liturgy in the apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium. It is true that there is little direct...
View ArticleO Sapientia
O Sapientia, quae ex ore Altissimi prodiisti, attingens a fine usque ad finem, fortiter suaviterque disponens omnia: veni ad docendum nos viam prudentiae.O Wisdom, that comest from the mouth of the...
View ArticleNew Website Makes Available All of the Documents of the Pauline Liturgical...
As the Church marks fifty years since the promulgation of Vatican II’s first document, Sacrosanctum Concilium, a new website has just been launched within the last 2 weeks, FONTES Commissionis...
View ArticlePhotopost: Gaudete Sunday 2013
Photoposts are back! During the switch-over in management from Shawn Tribe to the CMAA, one of our favorite pieces, photoposts, had slipped through the cracks. They are now back, and we have a ton of...
View ArticleO Adonai
O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel, qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti, et ei in Sina legem dedisti: veni ad redimendum nos in brachio extento.O Adonai, and Ruler of the house of Israel, who appeared...
View ArticlePoint and Counterpoint: Was the Liturgical Reform a Success?
The Catholic Church has always been a death-defying miracle in that she can exist under the pressure of enormous internal strains that would tear apart any merely human institution, and indeed, she...
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