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Christmas 2013 Photopost - Second Post
Here is a second set of Christmas photos from around the world. Also, for those who weren't aware, you can always click the photos for larger versions to appear. Don't forget to send in photos on...
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"What Is Most Deeply Human": Two Contrasting Approaches to Nostalgia
(Images from St. Edmund Campion Missal used with permission)In a talk given in Warsaw on April 9, 2011, Leo Darroch, former president of the International Federation Una Voce, had this to say:And what...
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Some upcoming events - sacred art class teaching the method of the gothic...
For any interested, I am offering a sacred art class in the spring at Thomas More College that is open to all; and speaking in mid January at St Mary Magdelen, the Dominican church in Berkeley, CA on...
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Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship
The Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship is a new initiative which will be based at St Patrick's University and Seminary in Menlo Park, California in the Archdiocese of San...
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Dominican Rite Solemn Mass of the Ember Wednesday of Advent
Thanks to the kindness of the Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco, I can now present some photos for the Solemn High Dominican Rite Mass celebrated at Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in San...
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Benediction in Salzburg and the Vienna Philharmonic at Papal Mass
Here are some photographs of Benediction following Solemn Mass last Sunday at St Sebastian's Church in Salzburg. The celebrant was Fr Daniel Kretschmar F.S.S.P.During the Mass, after the Elevation, the...
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Ordinariate Carol Service for Epiphany in London
To coincide with the third anniversary of the setting up of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, a service of lessons and carols for the Epiphany will be held on Thursday 9 January 2014...
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Epiphany Photopost 2014 - Photos Requested
I hope all you are having a blessed Christmas season and all is going well for you. Again, I invite all readers to send in pictures from their Masses and public celebrations of the Divine Office on the...
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2014 EF & OF Calendar with beautiful photographs from St John Cantius
The Canons Regular of St John Cantius, Chicago, have produced a beautiful 2014 Calendar which contains the Sundays and Feast Days of both the Novus Ordo and the Extraordinary Form (1962). In addition a...
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A Wedding according to the Use of the Philippine Islands
My thanks to reader JE for letting me know about a post on the blog Dei Praesidio Fultus, with pictures of a wedding celebrated according to the proper use of the Philippine Islands. There have always...
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Publication of the Date of Easter 2014 on the Day of the Epiphany
For general explanations about this very old use of publishing the date of Easter after the gospel of the Epiphany, see our previous post of 2012 here!ROMAN RITEHere is the chant of the Roman rite for...
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Extraordinary Glory: On the Beauty of Nature, Plane Flights, and Obscure...
By Br. Peter Junipero Hannah, O.P."And when they came to threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. And the anger of the Lord was...
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What is a Mystery?: Epiphany or the Manifestation of the Divine
At the beginning of every Mass in the Ordinary Form, the priest says: “Let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.” The sacra mysteria.I often wonder what...
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A Special Exhibition at Notre-Dame de Paris
From the website of Notre-Dame, the Cathedral of Paris (article also partially available in English): From the 6th to the 10th, and from the 13th to the 17th of January 2014, a monumental carpet, woven...
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Christmas Season Photopost
Below, we include photos from various liturgies on January 1, 2014, from around the world, as well as a few remaining photos from Christmas. We will be putting up a post for Epiphany as well, please...
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Flos de Radice Jesse - Christmas Music from Louisville, Kentucky.
We received from Fr. Paul Beach of St. Martin of Tour parish in Louisville, Kentucky, notice of this recording of the motet Flos de Radice Jesse by Michael Praetorius, sung by the parish choir under...
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A Palestrina Mass in North Carolina - Sunday, January 12th
From Fr. Eric Kowalski, Pastor, Our Lady of Grace, in Greensboro, North Carolina: There will be Mass in the Extraordinary Form celebrated at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, Greensboro, N.C., on...
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Fr. Cassian Speaks on Summorum Pontificum at Brompton Oratory
Fr. Cassian greeting Pope BenedictNews from Norcia:On Friday, December 13th, 2013, Fr. Cassian Folsom, O.S.B., prior and founder of the Monastery of San Benedetto located in Norcia, Italy, gave a talk...
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Online Latin Classes
Dr. John Pepino, professor of Latin, Greek, and Patristics at the FSSP seminary in Denton, Nebraska, is offering Latin classes online. While the Latin is classical in grammar and vocabulary, the...
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Much Discussion These Days on the Novus Ordo Calendar and Its Problems
There was once a time when you could clock the appearance of interesting scholarly and popular treatments of flaws in the Pauline liturgical reform in terms of weeks or months, and generally you found...
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