Focusing on the Sacred Liturgy, the Sacred Arts, Liturgical Catechetics, and Liturgical Praxis.
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Those involved with Catholic liturgy focus heavily on what the people in the pews want, how they are responding to the music and homily, how they regard the various ceremonies, and whether and to what extent are they involved. The manta at nearly every conference and teaching session on liturgy i...
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The New York Times has permitted a Catholic thinker to explain to its readers the backdrop and prospects for the return of the preconciliar Mass structure. Latin Mass AppealBy KENNETH J. WOLFEWALKING into church 40 years ago on this first Sunday of Advent, many Roman Catholics might have wondered...
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Fr. Cavana Wallace of St. Margaret's in Oceanside, California, reflects on the character of a parish as it is shaped by both the OF and EF:Yet whether the morning modern Mass in English or the evening traditional Mass in Latin, one common thread which holds both forms of the Mass together in this...
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From the site of the Newman Cause, comes this meditation from an 1838 sermon where "Newman explains that Christian worship should prepare us on earth for meeting Christ our Judge."Men sometimes ask, Why need they profess religion? Why need they go to church? Why need they observe certain rites an...
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We are in the final stages of editing the Winter issue of Sacred Music, which focuses on orchestral Masses and Haydn's work in particular. One name keeps coming forward in the citations: H.C. Robbins. Here is a musicologist who worked hard to make the work of several composers more widely known a...
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To launch the liturgical year within the Roman rite, the NLM has made it a tradition to begin the season with coverage of the first Vespers of the Advent season with Pope Benedict XVI.We are pleased to provide this coverage again today, which begins at 11:00am EST -- 5:00pm in Rome. Watch here f...
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Only a few years ago, it seemed like very few Catholic musicians knew anything of the book called the Kyriale - a portion of the song book of the Roman Rite that collects the chants of the ordinary of the Mass: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus. Today, there is a growing consciousness that thi...
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Tomorrow Pope Benedict will celebrate Pontifical Vespers as the first Vespers of the first Sunday of Advent, which also marks the beginning of the new liturgical year. On this occasion, the Holy Father will begin to use a new pastoral staff. As Msgr. Guido Marini, the Papal Master of Ceremonies, ...
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The Church of Our Saviour in New York City, whose pastor is the well known and respected author and speaker, Fr. George William Rutler, has recently completed some further works of sacred art within their parish. These were completed for the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the dedication of t...
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The German publisher Nova et Vetera, who have already brought to the Catholic world an impressive re-issue of the Breviarium Romanum, have now put out a new edition of the Epistolae et Evangelia Totius Anni:For the first ever there is now an edition of the Lectionarium according to the so called ...
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Talking with William Mahrt, CMAA president, he says that his iPhone is made worth it by virtue of his Liber Pro, the Liber Usualis reduced to one application for $14. I completely agree. To have this amazing book at your fingertips is invaluable. The creator did an outstanding job. I would say th...
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With the Season of Advent beginning this Saturday evening with Sunday Vespers I, it is a good time to heighten your considerations of domestic Advent practices that you or your family might pursue to help mark this liturgical season. (And here again, I would suggest that people give particular co...
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As readers know, one of my goals is to make the chant books of the Dominican Order accessible to the public in PDF format for download. Through the work of Fr. Gregory Schnakenberg, O.P., a contributor to Dominican Liturgy, we can now make available the last, 1965, edition of the Officium Hebdom...
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A press release from Thomas More College in Merrimack, New Hampshire, today. Do note how they are incorporating the sacred liturgy, and in particular the Divine Office, into their programme.(Merrimack, New Hampshire) — In his November 18 general audience, Pope Benedict offered a sophisticated cap...
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We have made mention of this community before on at least two occasions, but one of our readers recently sent us a note about them, and it struck me that we perhaps have never directly featured them as a community proper.The community I am speaking of is the Communauté Saint-Martin (Community of ...
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Recently there was a meeting of French faithful attached to the usus antiquior, the rencontre pour l’Unité Catholique (Meeting for Catholic Unity), in Versailles, France. In the course of the meeting, Fr. Laurent Spriet of the Association Totus Tuus made an important announcement. (The Associatio...
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Norfolk group revives Gregorian chant music
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Continuing our highlighting of parishes which are using both forms of the Roman liturgy, the NLM was pleased to receive some news from the parish church of Old St. Patrick's in New Orleans in the United States.The parish brings to our attention their regular schedule of Masses, which includes Mas...
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As a quick follow up to yesterday's coverage of the feast day of St. Clement in Rome, in one of our pieces we noted that the online photo album of the Pontifical Irish College (Pontificio Collegio Irlandese) had photos up of yesterday's Mass and procession.Very kindly, they contacted us and sent ...
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The forever forthcoming new translation of the Roman Rite in English will have many positive changes, among them "And with your spirit," but you know this already. It seems that the news about the new translations will never end and the translation will never arrive - and this is mostly because o...
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This Sunday, the Bishop of Regensburg, Bavaria, the city so beloved by both the Holy Father (his house and the tomb of his parents are there) and his brother (who was chapel master, Domkapellmeister, of Regensburg Cathedral for 30 years), consecrated a new organ for Regensburg Cathedral. This is ...
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This post will probably be of interest primarily to readers in the United States, as it concerns the upcoming American holiday of Thanksgiving Day (26 November). Yet it addresses theological and liturgical issues of more global import. What follows is an article of mine that was published in th...
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Within both Roman calendars, we today mark the feast day of Clemens Romanus, or St. Clement of Rome, one of the earliest successors of St. Peter in the venerable See of Rome. Detail of mediaeval fresco of St. Clement in the Lower church of San ClementeFrom the Catholic Encyclopedia:Pope Clement I...
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Detail from Ghent Altarpiece, Jan Van EyckChrist Enthroned in Glory, Andrei RublevMonreale, Sicily
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Good news to report to our readership. Those of you who use the NLM headlines feature may know that this feature only properly worked when you were on the main www.newliturgicalmovement.org page. If you were on a "single post page" for a single article, these headlines did not work.Fortunately, t...
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Everyone knows that Catholic music needs dramatic improvement. The only viable path is toward the music that is intrinsic to the Roman Rite: Gregorian chant. How and where to learn it? The Winter Chant Intensive: January 4-8, 2010, Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Charleston, South Carolina, In...
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The Catholic news service, Zenit, announced yesterday that it is beginning a "Spirit of the Liturgy" column "which will periodically present various themes of liturgical theology by expert theologians, liturgists and canonists." This year it proposes to explore themes related to the priesthood an...
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This morning in the Sistine Chapel, the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, met with artists, in an event sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Culture in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of John Paul II's Letter to Artists of April 4, 1999, and also on the 45th anniversary of Paul VI's addres...
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Within various liturgical calendars, we today celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or what is also called the Feast of the Entrance of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple in the Byzantine East (who also celebrate this feast today).Presentation of the Theotok...
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