On November 3rd, Bishop Robert Morlio will be celebrating a Pontifical Requiem for All Souls Day at 7pm at the Bishop O'Connor Center in Madison, WI. Victoria's Requiem a4 will be sung by the St. Gregory Schola Cantorum, directed by Aristotle Esguerra, of which I am also a member. I hope those in the area will be able to pray with us and admire the beauty this rare treat!
More recent articles:
“The Masses of Holy Week & Tenebrae”: A Publication to Assist in Pre-55 ServicesPeter Kwasniewski
Those who are blessed with access to Holy Week in the Tridentine Rite, that is, the rite celebrated for a thousand years and more prior to Pius XII’s changes in the mid-1950s, may find helpful a resource published by Os Justi Press, The Masses of Holy Week & Tenebrae, which contains the liturgy (in Latin with English translation) for Palm ...
The Antiquity and Universality of Fore-Lent (Part 1)Gregory DiPippo
This article by Henri de Villiers was originally published in French on the website of the Schola Sainte-Cécile in 2014. It will be reproduced here in my English translation in four parts, since it is fairly long, and definitely worth a careful read. In it, Henri examines the universal Christian tradition of the preparatory period before Lent in th...
The Reading of Genesis in SeptuagesimaGregory DiPippo
The children of Israel served the king of Babylon for seventy years, and afterwards, were set free and returned to Jerusalem. Likewise, we ourselves must serve all of this life, either for our faults and their punishment, or at least in hardship. For this reason, the Church, being set, as it were, in the captivity of Babylon, that is, in this wor...
The Dismissal of the AlleluiaGregory DiPippo
This evening, the eve of Septuagesima, the Roman Rite begins its preparation for Lent by laying the “Alleluia” aside until the vigil of Easter. In the Breviary of St Pius V, which derives from the later medieval customs of the Papal court, this is done with characteristic simplicity; “alleluia” is added twice to the “Benedicamus Domino” and “Deo gr...
Marienberg Abbey in Northern ItalyGregory DiPippo
Last month, we shared four posts of Nicola’s pictures of the abbey of St John in Val Müstair, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. About nine miles away, but on the Italian side of the border, stands the abbey of Marienburg (Mary’s mountain). It was originally founded in 1096 by a local noble family called von Tarasp, in a town on the other side of t...
Mutual EnrichmentGregory DiPippo
Your translation’s divine, Your preaching melodious; Won’t you be My Cyril and Methodius? This Valentine’s Day joke is here reproduced by the kind permission of the author, Fr Dominic Holtz, of the Order of Friars Preachers. Facetus et sagax, docendi semper ac jocandi capax!...
The Magnanimous Contrite HeartMichael P. Foley
Lost in Translation #120 As we saw last week, the Offertory prayer In spiritu humilitatis contains the verse “In the spirit of humility and with a contrite heart may we be accepted by Thee.” (Dan. 3, 39) A contrite heart is a recurring theme in the Sacred Scriptures, but the terms to describe it are not always the same. In the Old Testament, the m...
Video and Pictures of an Anglican Sarum Liturgy in LondonGregory DiPippo
On Saturday, February 1st, the Oxford-based early music group Antiquum Documentum sang a celebration of Candlemas according to the Use of Sarum at the Anglican church of Great St Bartholomew in London. The church’s YouTube channel has posted a video of the complete ceremony; our thanks to Antiquum Documentum for sharing these pictures with us as we...
More Pictures of the Feast of St Agatha in CataniaGregory DiPippo
Last week, we shared Peter’s pictures of the celebrations of the feast of St Agatha in her native city of Catania in Sicily. Another friend of ours, Dom Jakobus, a canon regular of Herzogenburg Abbey in Austria, was also there, and graciously agreed to share his pictures with us. Those of the Saint’s reliquary and the procession of it through the c...
Entering Heaven on Earth with the Photography of Fr Lawrence Lew OPPeter Kwasniewski
One of our best Catholic photographers, Fr. Lawrence Lew, OP, whose work has very often been shared at NLM over the years, has given us a new book that will be of great interest to all readers here:Entering Heaven on Earth: The Signs, Symbols, and Saints of Catholic Churches It’s a stupendous coffee-table encyclopedia comprising just what the ...