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On film: the enthronements of two Archbishops of Westminster from 1944 & 1963
British Pathé has recently started to upload old newsreels to YouTube, including this one which was kindly sent in by a seminarian in Rome. It shows the enthronement of Dr John Carmel Heenan as...
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Last Chance to Sign up for Altar Server Training and Chant Conference!
The last day to sign up for the Musica Sacra Florida chant conference and extraordinary form altar server training with Fr. Scott Haynes is now Monday, May 12th.Visit the conference website at...
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Sacred Choral Works CDs now available
Back in March, Ben Yanke kindly announced the publication of my volume of Sacred Choral Works. At that time, it was mentioned that 3 compact discs with recordings of nearly all of the 85 works...
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Pictures of Mass and Vespers at the Community-in-Formation of the Oratory of...
As the latest in what has developed into a series of features of Oratories in formation, here are some photos of the community in Cincinatti, Ohio. The church, Old St Mary's looks splendid. It was...
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"Liturgy that requires ecstasy": McLuhan Meets Ratzinger
I don't know how I managed to miss this superb article, "The Mode in Which We Go to Mass," by Marc Barnes. Credit goes to Musings of a Pertinacious Papist for alerting me to it. The article is just...
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EF Pontifical at the Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul in Providence, Rhode Island
The Cathedral of Ss. Peter and Paul in Providence, Rhode Island, held a Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form this past Sunday. This Mass was requested by Bishop Thomas Tobin as one of the events...
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Are The True Intentions of the Council being Followed?
Recently in CNS, Cardinal Burke, a figure who I'm sure is known to most readers, strongly cautioned against the widespread overuse of concelebration in the Latin Rite since the council.Cardinal Raymond...
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The Lumen Christi Simple Gradual
The latest book from the upcoming Lumen Christi Series has just been released! As many readers probably know, Adam Bartlett is the composer of Simple English Propers, one of the highlights of the...
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Liturgical Resources: iBreviary and "Alma Bracarense" in New Languages
Two updates on some important liturgical resources have recently been brought to my attention. The first is from Fr. Paolo Padrini, the creator of iBreviary, who informs us that the app is now...
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Solemn High Mass in Kowloon, HK
The following photographs were taken at a Solemn High Mass at the Rosary Church, Kowloon, Hong Kong, last Sunday. The celebrant was Fr Francis Li and the sermon was given by Cardinal Zen. Two of the...
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The Theology of the Offertory - Part 5: What the Offertory Really Means
This is the fifth article in an ongoing series. The previous parts can be read here: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4. Having explained in the previous articles of this series what the Offertory is not,...
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Ordinariate Festival in London
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is to hold its first "Ordinariate Festival" in September this year. The guest of honour will be Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster...
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Per aspera ad astra: On Hard-Identity Catholicism
There’s an old adage: Per aspera ad astra,“Through hardships to the stars.” We never reach the heights without a climb through that which is uncongenial, that which challenges and stretches us. Trials...
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Statement from the Archdiocese of Boston concerning Harvard 'event'
The Archdiocese of Boston has released the following statement:The Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Boston expresses its deep sadness and strong opposition to the plan to stage a “black mass”...
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Cardinal Burke on the value of the liturgy in forming and preserving the...
In a recently published interview on LifeSiteNews.com, here, Cardinal Burke made the following statement about the value of the liturgy.The question asked by the Polish journalist, Izabella Parowicz...
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Blessed Sacrament Procession in Cambridge MA
Yesterday evening a Blessed Sacrament procession from the Catholic chapel at MIT was followed by a Holy Hour of Adoration and Benediction at St. Paul's, the home parish of the Harvard Catholic Student...
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The Episcopal Ordination of Oratorian Fr Robert Byrne
Fr Robert Byrne, Cong. Orat. was ordained as an Auxiliary Bishop yesterday at St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham. He is the first Oratorian Bishop in England in 140 years, the last being Fr Edward...
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Updates from Holy Name in Brooklyn, St Elias in Brampton, Ontario, and...
Back in January, we reported that the church of the Holy Name of Jesus in the Windsor Terrace neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, had undertaken the process of undoing the wreckovation inflicted on it...
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FSSP Ordination in Leesburg Virginia, June 14
On June 14, 2014, His Excellency James Conley, Bishop of Lincoln, Nebraska, will ordain to the priesthood two deacons of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, the Rev. Mr. Daniel Heenan and the Rev....
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