tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150187272026-03-14T17:57:34.743-04:00New Liturgical MovementRichard Chonakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02327763839418228519noreply@blogger.comBlogger17870120tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-56694944966780217112026-03-14T07:30:00.000-04:002026-03-14T07:30:00.113-04:00The Woman Caught in Adultery in the Liturgy of LentIn the Roman Rite, the Gospel of the woman caught in adultery, John 8, 1-11, is joined at today’s Mass with the story of Susanna, who is rescued from an accusation of adultery by the prophet Daniel. Whether by coincidence or design, these two stories are united not just by a textual theme, but also by a text-critical one; both stories were known in antiquity to be later additions to their Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-43388865083354034222026-03-13T17:30:00.000-04:002026-03-13T17:30:00.109-04:00A New Edition of The Tripartite Life of St PatrickJust in time for the feast of St Patrick next Tuesday, we are very glad to share this announcement from Mr Phillip Campbell and Cruachan Hill Press.Some of the most popular publishing projects I’ve been involved with over the last several years have been my reprints of the lives of St. Brigid of Kildare and St. Columba of Iona, two of the best-known saints of Ireland’s golden age. I have been Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-4541402217741482182026-03-13T08:00:00.000-04:002026-03-13T08:00:00.117-04:00The Samaritan Woman in the Liturgy of Lent
In the lectionaries of the various Latin rites, one of the most prominent Gospels of the Lenten season is that of the Samaritan woman who spoke to Christ at the well of Jacob (St John 4, 5-42). Although the Roman, Ambrosian and Byzantine Rites each read this Gospel on a different day, it appears in all three as a lesson of particular importance for the preparation of those who will be baptized Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-56758865315686585302026-03-12T07:45:00.000-04:002026-03-12T07:45:00.114-04:00The Feast of St Fina of San GimignanoThe photographs in this post were all taken by Nicola de’ Grandi.The Tuscan town of San Gimignano is named for St Geminianus, a bishop of Modena in the Italian region of the Emilia-Romagna, who died in 397. But it also has another patron Saint, one its own citizens, a girl named Fina (short for Serafina). Although her noble family had fallen into poverty, from a very young age, she would Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-43197743325553438062026-03-11T18:00:00.000-04:002026-03-11T18:00:00.222-04:00Cardinal Eijk to Celebrate Pontifical Mass in the NetherlandsOn March 15, Laetare Sunday, His Eminence Cardinal Willem Jacobus Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht, will celebrate for the first time in his episcopal ministry a Pontifical High Mass according to the traditional Roman Rite. The Mass will take place in the historic church of the Immaculate Conception (Grote Kerk) in Oss, Netherlands. For many faithful attached to the ancient Roman liturgy, this Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-78403195818836985602026-03-11T13:00:00.001-04:002026-03-11T13:00:00.120-04:00Byzantine Hymns for Mid-Lent
The Fast that bringeth good things hath now reached its middle point, having pleased God well in the days gone past, and bringing help in the days to come; for the increase of good things maketh greater the good work. Wherefore let us cry to Christ, the Giver of all good things, pleasing Him well, “O Thou who for our sake did fast and endure the Cross, deem us worthy to partake also of Thy Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-20317003555340925762026-03-11T07:30:00.001-04:002026-03-11T07:30:00.112-04:00St. Thomas Aquinas on St. Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews and the Theology of SalvationOs Justi Press has released two major Thomistic publications that will no doubt be of interest to many readers of NLM, given their extensive engagement with liturgical matters.In Lent and Paschaltide, we reflect on Jesus as the lion who has conquered (Rev. 5, 5). But what has Jesus conquered? And how has he done so? The Bible also repeatedly refers to Jesus as our “savior.” But what does Jesus Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6047205402370558822026-03-10T16:30:00.006-04:002026-03-10T16:32:20.044-04:00Elisha and the Widow are Christ and the ChurchWilliam Durandus’ commentary on today’s Mass, Rationale Divinorum Officiorum VI, 48The Mass of this day speaks of prayer and of mercy, through which also does the Lord save us. The epistle (4 Kings, 4, 1-7) is about a widow, whose sons a creditor is seeking to take as slaves, so Elisha fills her vessels with oil, telling her to pay the debt which she owes from selling part of the oil, and that Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-87672637872363954362026-03-10T11:20:00.003-04:002026-03-11T07:58:36.613-04:00On the Loss of Early Liturgical DocumentsLast year, I read a fascinating book called Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age, by Dr Ada Palmer, who teaches history at the University of Chicago. I have subsequently recommended it to a number of friends, and all those who have read it have thanked me for the suggestion. Dr Palmer gives a unique take on the history of the Renaissance, and on the history of the idea of the Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-57143304665130735222026-03-09T12:00:00.022-04:002026-03-09T13:02:54.058-04:00St Frances of Rome and the Counter-ReformationThis Thursday, the feast of Pope St Gregory the Great, is the anniversary of one of the most important events of the Counter-Reformation. On that day in the year 1622, Pope Gregory XV canonized four Saints who had played particularly important roles in the reformation of the Church after the terrible shock of the Protestant rebellion: Philip Neri, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier, and Theresa Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-79705737561072502982026-03-08T16:00:00.000-04:002026-03-08T16:00:00.116-04:00A Hymn for Lent, Lost and RestoredThe Roman tradition has always been very conservative about the use of hymns in the Divine Office. In most liturgical seasons, there are three proper hymns, one each for Matins, Lauds and Vespers, but many feasts, including some of the greatest solemnities (Christmas, Epiphany, Ascension etc.), have only two. In the Ordinal of Pope Innocent III (1198-1216), the ancestor text of the breviary of StGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-70991593858146893392026-03-08T08:00:00.000-04:002026-03-08T08:00:00.115-04:00The Third Sunday of Lent 2026Oculi mei semper ad Dóminum, quia ipse evellet de láqueo pedes meos: réspice in me, et miserére mei, quoniam únicus et pauper sum ego. Ps 24 Ad te, Dómine, levávi ánimam meam: Deus meus, in te confído, non erubescam. Gloria Patri... Oculi mei... (The Introit of the Third Sunday of Lent.)Introit My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for He shall pluck my feet out of the snare; look Thou upon me, and Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-29255790742658200542026-03-07T13:30:00.003-05:002026-03-07T18:52:07.185-05:00Saints Perpetua and FelicityFor over a millennium before the birth of St Thomas Aquinas, March 7th was the feast day of Ss Perpetua and Felicity, two young women who were martyred in the stadium at Carthage on this day in the year 203. Their feast is already noted on the Philocalian Calendar in the mid-4th century, and they are first among the women named in the Communicantes of the Roman Canon, since they predate the otherGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-53565970202989928642026-03-06T18:01:00.002-05:002026-03-06T19:29:00.645-05:00The Ambrosian Lenten LitaniesThe duomo of Milan as it stands today is the result of a project which began in 1386, to replace the two cathedrals which had hitherto served the see of St Ambrose. The “winter church”, as it is still called in Ambrosian liturgical books, was the smaller of the two, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and used from the Third Sunday of October, the feast of its Dedication, until Holy Saturday; it stood Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-28678254208065435262026-03-06T07:30:00.000-05:002026-03-06T07:30:00.116-05:00“Let My Prayer Rise as Incense” by Dmitry Bortniansky - Byzantine Music for Lent
In the Byzantine Rite, the Divine Liturgy is not celebrated on the weekdays of Lent, but only on Saturdays and Sundays; an exception is made for the feast of the Annunciation. Therefore, at the Divine Liturgy on Sundays, extra loaves of bread are consecrated, and reserved for the rest of the week. On Wednesdays and Fridays, a service known as the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is held, in Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-76429105087608826822026-03-05T07:15:00.001-05:002026-03-05T07:15:00.179-05:00Medieval Art and Liturgical Objects at the Musée de Cluny in Paris (Part 5): IvoriesThis is the fifth post in our series of Nicola’s photographs of an exhibition recently held at the Musée de Cluny in Paris, titled “The Middle Ages of the 19th Century - Creations and Fakes in the Fine Arts”. In this post we focus on various kinds of objects made of ivory. In ancient times, ivory was often used to make the diptychs from which were read the names of persons to be commemorated at Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-81690323530753308452026-03-04T15:30:00.000-05:002026-03-04T15:30:00.123-05:00An Interesting Fact About Today’s Lenten Station
Several years ago, I read a very interesting book called Mourning into Joy: Music, Raphael, and Saint Cecilia, by Thomas Connolly. (Yale Univ. Press, 1995). The principal subject is Raphael’s painting The Ecstasy of St Cecilia, but it also contains a great deal of information about devotion to the Saint, at whose basilica the Lenten station is held today. I am here paraphrasing what Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-78659660981863864772026-03-04T07:30:00.001-05:002026-03-04T11:04:14.640-05:00On the Roman Mass, Don’t Take Your Cue from FortescueSeparated by over 100 years, with the advantage going to FiedrowiczThis article is a combined effort of Gregory’s and mine. - PAKUndoubtedly Adrian Fortescue is a fascinating figure, rather eccentric in some ways (see Aidan Nichols’ biography) – a biting critic of Pius X, e.g., whom he called “an Italian lunatic” – but it must be borne in mind that his liturgical scholarship is somewhat out Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-23500354099111282462026-03-03T16:30:00.000-05:002026-03-03T16:30:00.117-05:00A Troped Kyrie from the Use of YorkOver the years, we have published a fair number of articles about the medieval Use of Sarum, which predominated in England before the Reformation, but very little about the other English Uses of the Roman Rite, those of York, Lincoln, Bangor and Hereford. So I was very pleased when I stumbled across this video of a troped Kyrie sung during a liturgy according to the Use of York, celebrated at an Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-29080486554222887322026-03-03T07:30:00.001-05:002026-03-04T07:31:51.814-05:00Why Are Modern Church Buildings So UglyAnd Why Does it Matter?The following first appeared as an interview in The Catholic Herald. Jan C. Bentz, who conducted the interview, teaches philosophy at Blackfriars College, Oxford.Los Angeles Cathedral, completed 2002Dr Bentz wrote:For many Catholics, the experience is familiar and disquieting: newly built churches that feel more like conference centres than places of worship, stripped of David Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07041908477492455609noreply@blogger.com0