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Category Archives: Liturgy
Traditional Catholics bewildered; Pope Benedict’s direction ignored
By Martina Moyski at Church Militant: Catholics must now recycle their old missals and get a revised, current edition of the Italian missal that includes changes to the Gloria and the Lord’s Prayer. President Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti announced that Pope … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy, Pope Francis
Tagged 'pro multis', Fruits of Vatican II, Gloria, Liturgical Reform, Lord's Prayer, Pope Francis
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The speech of angels is song
Christianity has always understood that the speech of angels is actually song, in which all the glory of the great joy that they proclaim becomes tangibly present. And so, from that moment, the angels’ song of praise has never gone … Continue reading
Posted in Catholic Culture, Catholic Music, Catholic Prayers, Devotion, Hymns, Latin, Liturgy, Marian, Pope Benedict, Uncategorized
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Rorate Sunday
Desert dew A little study on my part has revealed that yesterday, the Fourth Sunday of Advent, has been sometimes called Rorate Sunday in times past and even present. This is to be distinguished from Rorate Masses, which refer to Votive Masses of … Continue reading
Kneeling Ban: Good Liturgy or Loss of Religious Freedom?
from: Homiletic & Pastoral Review. http://www.hprweb.com/2015/07/ By Fr. Regis Scanlon, O.F.M. Cap.Some religious leaders in the Latin Rite are pressuring Catholics not to kneel at the Consecration, or to genuflect at their reception of the Eucharist. This trend has gained … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy
Tagged Biblical scholarship, History, liturgical language, Liturgy, orthodox worship
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How the Cistercians Can Help Us Disentangle the Washing of the Feet
From: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2015/03 Peter Kwasniewski Every year, we come back to the Holy Thursday ceremony of the washing of the feet — and all the inevitable controversy that surrounds it when women are included among the group whose feet are washed, … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy
Tagged Cistercians, Mandatum, Maundy Thursday, New Liturgical Movement
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Dome of Home documentary
This 25 minute documentary, with contributions from Bishop Mark Davies of the Shrewsbury Diocese, shows how the “Dome of Home” church – the Church of Ss Peter, Paul and Philomena – is thriving under the care of Canon Amaury Montjean … Continue reading
The TLM and the New Evangelisation
Here’s a great post from Fr Z: The Institute of Christ the King had ordinations to the priesthood recently in St. Louis. This promoted an article in the local paper. The writer (thus, editor) seemed amazed that this sort of thing … Continue reading
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: ‘We are in the fourth great crisis of the Church’
By Sarah Atkinson, Catholic Herald online: Liberals, collaborating with the “new paganism”, are driving the Catholic Church towards a split, according to Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the liturgical specialist who is carrying on a rearguard fight against “abuses” in the Church. … Continue reading
Honouring Our Lady of Fatima
Last Sunday was Fatima Day at “The Dome of Home” on the Wirral. The day began with a sung Tridentine Mass after which a beautiful statue of Our Lady was crowned. In a moving ceremony the faithful who had each … Continue reading
Bishop of Shrewsbury celebrates Tridentine Mass at Dome of Home
Today the Rt. Rev. Mark Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury celebrated his first public Tridentine Mass and administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to a group of candidates at the Dome of Home. The liturgy at the landmark church of Ss Peter, … Continue reading
New Personal Parish of Blessed John Henry Newman, Melbourne
Tomorrow, 28 March 2014, will mark the canonical establishing of the Personal Parish of Blessed John Henry Newman in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, Australia. The parish will serve all those in the Archdiocese, which is Australia’s largest, wishing to worship in the … Continue reading
A fine word
The Holy Father had something good and important to say yesterday: When we celebrate the Mass, we don’t accomplish a representation of the Last Supper: no, it is not a representation. It is something else: it is the Last Supper … Continue reading
Posted in Benedictines, Catholic Music, Church Politics, Liturgy, Mass, Music, Pope Francis I
Tagged Bad Arguments, Bad Hymns, Good Words, Infighting, Liturgical Reform, Mass, Vatican II
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Lectio Divina: 1st Sunday of Advent, Year A
The Fall of the Damned – Bosch, Venice With Open Eyes, Astonished and New Paris, November 29, 2013 (Zenit.org) Monsignor Francesco Follo 1) Vigilance and discernment In the Canticle of the Sun (recited in the liturgy of the Hours during … Continue reading
A perspective on Franciscan humility in the liturgy
English Catholic recently posted this brilliant short piece on his blog: I am so fortunate to live in Hong Kong to be able to worship at a church where they have an unusually humble and inclusive form of liturgy at Mass. There has … Continue reading
Pope Francis’ Almoner
From Sandro Magister at Chiesa: ROME, October 11, 2013 – The comprehensive reform of the Vatican curia is still entirely to be written, on the part of the eight cardinals to whom it has been delegated. But in the meantime … Continue reading
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