Please forgive me if this is old news to our readers, but I just wanted to put in a kind word for the good folks over at Laudamus Te Magazine. I first encountered them after their creative director, longtime colleague Ted Schluenderfritz, asked to use some of my line art for their Christmas and pre-Lent issues, along with some of his own work and that of Daniel Mitsui. (If I may be permitted to toot my own trumpet, the crucifixion above, which appears on the Lent edition's cover, is my own work.) So, you say, it has a nice cover, but what about the content? Laudamus Te aims to be to the Extraordinary Form what the wonderful little misalette Magnificat is to its Ordinary equivalent--quite a tall order. But virtually ex nihilo and on a shoestring, Hillside Education has delivered. Not only are there the mass texts and propers (carefully purged of typographic errors that creep into hand-missals), but original meditations, readings from the Fathers, poetry, and the texts for Morning and Evening Prayer--and the original art mentioned before. It is also quite handsome for an essentially ephemeral publication in terms of design, layout and quality. It is representative of something tremendously exciting--the ability to do something
