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Notes from Norcia [UPDATED]
Last week, I enjoyed the tremendous blessing of a brief visit to the great Monastero di San Benedetto in Norcia, at the birthplace of Saints Benedict and Scholastica. I was in Austria giving a course...
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Three Medieval Art Classes this July - Learn the Style of the English Gothic...
For any who are interested, here are the contact details for three residential summer schools that offer instruction in painting illuminations in the style of the gothic Masters of the School of St...
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“The Offertory Chant is Necessary at Mass” - Fr Eric Andersen on Sacred Music...
We are very grateful to Fr. Eric Andersen for sharing with us the text of this very interesting talk he recently gave as part of the ongoing “Dominican Forum” series, at the church of the Holy Rosary...
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The Ordinariate Church in London re-establishes links with the Portuguese...
The Portuguese ambassador to the United Kingdom is to attend Mass at the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham's central church in Warwick Street, Soho, London next month as part of efforts to...
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Fr. Dwight Longenecker on Worship Ad Orientem
Many readers of NLM will be aware that Fr. Longenecker has, over the years, written a number of fine articles on the contemporary relevance and permanent value of certain traditional liturgical...
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From Solesmes: a beautiful facsimile of a Montecassino manuscript and a...
Solesmes has published the latest volume in the Paléographie Musicale series. This beautiful volume is the 23rd in the series which began in 1889 and is the first to be published in colour. It is a...
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A Priest of Great David’s Greater Son
The following homily was preached by Father Peter Stravinskas on the occasion of the First Solemn Mass of Father David Michael Waters, at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Royersford, Pennsylvania...
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Bishop Athanasius Schneider in England
During a recent trip in England, Bishop Athanasius Schneider celebrated a Pontifical Mass at the Faldstool at one of the first post-reformation Marian shrines. Ceremonially, it's interesting to note...
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Two Musical Meditations for Ascensiontide
Yesterday I searched through my collection of recordings at home to see if I could find some Ascensiontide music to share with my family in the evening. I was surprised at how little specific music I...
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Fetishising Councils?
A friend shared with me Fr. Hunwicke's recent series of posts in response to Archimandrite Taft's query about the ecumenical nature of post-schism councils. Fr. Hunwicke spends a post attacking Taft's...
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Pictures of the New Altar at Saint Catherine of Siena Church, Phoenix, AZ
Here are some photos of the new altar at St Catherine of Siena Church, Phoenix, Arizona (h/t Cesar Sanchez).Cesar tells me that the Extraordinary Form of the Mass is celebrated there every Sunday and...
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Photos: Ordination and First Masses at the Basilica of SS Peter & Paul,...
Last Friday, The Most Reverend Robert P. Deeley, Bishop of Portland in Maine, ordained The Reverend Kyle Doustou to the sacred priesthood in the Basilica Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Lewiston....
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Dominican Rite First Mass of a New Priest of the Western Dominican Province
Over the last weekend, there were ordinations of four men of our Western Dominican Province. Here are images of a first Mass of one of them.With the permission of Fr. Peter Junipero Hannah, O.P., the...
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Book Review: The Little Oratory
I was very happy to receive a copy from Sophia Institute Press of a new book, The Little Oratory: A Beginner’s Guide to Praying in the Home, by Leila Marie Lawler and NLM’s own David Clayton, with...
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The Temple Transformed: 2014 Society for Catholic Liturgy Call for Submissions
The 2014 Annual Conference of the Society for Catholic Liturgy is set to take place at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Colorado Springs, Colorado on October 2-4, 2014.The theme of the conference is: “The Temple...
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Photos: Three Ordinations at St John Cantius, Chicago
Through the power of the Holy Spirit and the imposition of hands by His Eminence, Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Archbishop of Chicago, Fr. Joshua Caswell, Fr. Nathan Caswell, and Fr. Kevin Mann were...
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Re-forming the History of the Reformation to Reflect the Truth...and It's a...
From the English national daily newspaper, the Daily Telegraph (h/t Catholicism.org) - this is a very unusual pro-Catholic feature. It explains amongst many other things the importance in English daily...
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Vespers of Pentecost Sunday - Juventutem Event in Louisville, KY
The Juventutem chapter in Louisville, Kentucky, officially affiliated to the international federation on March 19th of this year, will have a Holy Hour with Vespers of Pentecost Sunday at 5 p.m....
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Pentecost 2014
Veni, Sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende: qui per diversitatem linguarum cunctarum, gentes in unitatem fidei congregasti, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.The...
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Can Comprehension Be a Disservice?
At Pentecost each year the Church reads the story of the Apostles being given the gift to speak so as to be heard in the languages of all the nations. One might view this as a kind of "exaltation of...
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