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Why Developing the Skill of Drawing Is So Necessary for the Artist - And...
All figurative Christian art, and especially sacred art, is a balance between natural appearances and idealisation. Idealisation is the controlled distortion from natural appearances that enables the...
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The Paschal Candle: An Artist Explains
The paschal candle holds a place of great antiquity in the Roman rite, as well as others. As readers of this blog undoubtedly know, beginning at the Easter Vigil, it is lit at all Masses through the...
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New Missal for the Ordinary Form
Corpus Christi Watershed just announced their new pew-missal series for the OF. Details can be found below in the embedded video or at their page here. It appears it will be released in May of this year.
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EF Pontifical Mass at Mundelein Seminary - Friday, April 25th (Updated)
The website of St John Cantius Parish in Chicago announces that on Friday, April 25th, at 4 p.m. (Central Time), His Excellency James Timlin, Bishop-Emeritus of Scranton, Pennsylvania, will celebrate a...
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Holy Week and Easter - Your Photos
Once again, we wish to thank the readers who sent in photographs of their Triduum and Easter services. If we receive more over the coming week, we will have another photopost sometime during the coming...
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Rogation and Ember Days - An Illustrated Guide
April 25th sees the coincidence of three observances this year: the Friday within the Octave of Easter, the feast of St Mark the Evangelist, and the Major Litanies, or Rogation Days. Traditionally, St...
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Holy Week at the Ordinariate Church of St John the Evangelist, Calgary
The report and photos below are from the Ordinariate Parish of St John the Evangelist in Calgary, Alberta. The parish website is here.The Ordinariate church of St. John the Evangelist in Calgary,...
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Maniples, Amices, Cassocks—Lost and Found
Fr. Richard Cipolla has done us all a great service by translating a fantastic article by Alessando Gnocchi: "Traces of the Hegelian Guillotine in the Liturgical Reform." Gnocchi is speaking primarily...
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EF Pontifical Mass at the Cathedral of Providence, Rhode Island
The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence, Rhode Island, (my native city!) will have a Solemn Pontifical Mass next Sunday at 1 p.m., as part of the celebrations for the church’s 125th...
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John XXIII in His Own Words (4): The Defense of Catholic Truth
No nonsense when it comes to doctrineJohn XXIII’s eight encyclicals are relatively little known and studied today, with the possible exception of Mater et Magistra and Pacem in Terris. As an avid...
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Dom Mark Kirby on John XXIII on the Traditional Divine Office
In company, no doubt, with many NLM readers, I often find very deep spiritual and intellectual nourishment in reading the Vultus Christi blog, maintained by the Prior of Silverstream, Dom Mark Kirby,...
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Final Images from Holy Week and Easter
Old Saint Mary’s - Cincinnati, Ohio (Oratory in formation)Note the photographs of the Good Friday procession with the image of the dead Christ. (6th through 9th of this set.) Processions of this kind...
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Graffiti in English Medieval Churches
I bring this curiosity to you courtesy of Deacon Paul Iacono of the Fra Angelico Institute of Sacred Arts. He, in turn, drew on reports that appear in the Guardian newspaper, here. As part of a...
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Altar Server Training and Chant Conference in Florida - Reg. Deadline This...
A liturgical and musical renaissance in Florida? Many, including myself, were dubious about it.When I moved to Ft. Lauderdale six years ago to take an academic position, I was moving from a vibrant...
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First Saturday Dominican Rite Mass, May 3, at Carmel of the Holy Family,...
Chapel of the Carmel, Bishop Barbar Celebrant (New Rite Roman)This is just the briefest of reminders to readers in the San Francisco BayArea that the Dominican Rite Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart...
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Some Liturgical Notes on St Joseph the Worker (and a Few Dominican Saints)
From Fr Hunwicke, who always manages to combine erudition, wisdom, and a prose style that is truly enjoyable to read.This week provides a good example of how the Calendar of the Vetus Ordo is starting...
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Catholic Artist's Society Mass in New York this coming Sunday
Here is a final reminder that the Catholic Artists Society invites artists, patrons, friends of the arts and their families to its annual Solemn Mass for Artists. This year's Mass will mark the 15th...
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The Populus Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage 2014
The third annual Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage will take place in Rome 23-26 October 2014. This year the highlights include a joint Mass with Juventutem to celebrate the 10th anniversary of...
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In Honor of Saint Pius V
Pope St. Pius V's vision of the Christians' victory at Lepanto“O God, who for the overthrow of the enemies of Thy Church and for the restoration of divine worship didst vouchsafe to choose blessed Pius...
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