tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150187272026-10-21T00:23:53.627-04:00New Liturgical MovementRichard Chonakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02327763839418228519noreply@blogger.comBlogger18107120tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6912032088367999032026-10-20T14:30:06.387-04:002026-10-20T14:56:30.913-04:00Two Recent Glagolitic MassesOur thanks once again to our friend Danijel Uremović for his account of two Masses recently celebrated according to the Glagolitic Missal, one in Australia and one in the Czech Republic.Following the positive reception of the Glagolitic High Mass held in Sydney for the feast of the Precious Blood earlier this year, it was only a matter of time before the Croatian Catholic community of Australia Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-20717850919642972612026-10-20T08:00:00.000-04:002026-10-20T08:00:00.111-04:00Portable Altars Through the CenturiesGuest post by Fr Andrew MarlboroughHere is the latest piece from Fr Andrew Marlborough, a priest of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, based in Germany. He has continued to scour auction houses and museum catalogs on both sides of the Atlantic for interesting pieces of liturgical furnishings. Fr Andrew writes:Some of you may have seen the articles I wrote previously about portableDavid Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07041908477492455609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-84312814999693919592026-10-18T07:00:00.000-04:002026-10-18T07:00:00.219-04:00The Proper Office of the Evangelists
In the Roman Breviary, the Evangelists are treated liturgically as a subcategory of the Apostles, and their common office consists solely of proper readings for Matins; everything else is said from the common of Apostles. This in part reflects the habitual conservatism of the church of Rome, which was always much slower to accept new proper Offices, and is partly due to the fact that a proper Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-67700426245952540602026-10-17T17:04:44.612-04:002026-10-17T17:29:11.617-04:00“Mystic Rose in God’s Fair Garden Growing”: Dr. Kwasniewski’s New Book on the Blessed Virgin MaryIn this month of the Most Holy Rosary, I am delighted to announce my new book: Mystic Rose in God’s Fair Garden Growing: Our Lady on Prayer, the Mass, and Union with Christ, published by Arouca Press.The Blessed Virgin Mary is the authoritative guide to living the Christian faith – above all, when it comes to its pulsing heart, the Holy Mass. Mystic Rose weaves together theological, liturgical, Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-25674379257481959482026-10-17T09:00:04.106-04:002026-10-17T09:04:31.630-04:00Domenico Zipoli, A Jesuit Baroque ComposerThe Baroque composer Domenico Zipoli was born on this day in 1688, in the Italian city of Prato, about 12 miles to the north-west of Florence. After his early training at the cathedral of his native city, and brief stints in Florence, Rome, Naples (where he studied with one of the most important composers of the era, Alessandro Scarlatti), and finally Bologna, Zipoli returned to Rome in 1710, andGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-49850260314817526882026-10-16T16:15:35.483-04:002026-10-16T16:16:22.181-04:00A Tour of the Parkminster CharterhouseHere is a very happy discovery, courtesy of the YouTube suggestion algorithm, a video which gives a tour of the Charterhouse of St Hugh, the only Carthusian monastery in England, located in the town of Parkminster in West Sussex. The priest giving the tour, Fr Christopher Basden of the archdiocese of Southwark, is very knowledgeable about the Carthusian Order and its history and traditions, and IGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-75638849860186274572026-10-16T07:00:00.000-04:002026-10-16T23:19:18.063-04:00Review of Abbé Claude Barthe, The Seven Sacraments, Past and Present: A Short Critical Study of the New Rituals
Most of the debates about the post-conciliar liturgical reforms have centered around the new order of the Mass. The Consilium in charge of implementing the directives of the Second Vatican Council, however, instituted sweeping changes across the entire liturgical spectrum, including all seven sacraments, the Rituale Romanum, etc. And not surprisingly, all the changes bespeak a similar mentality.Michael P. Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649905848645336033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-69867968815165161422026-10-15T17:20:00.000-04:002026-10-16T06:47:27.235-04:00The Basilica of St Vitalis in RavennaFollowing up on Monday’s post of the basilica of St Apollinaris in Classe, the ancient port city of Ravenna, here are pictures taken by the same friend of the church of St Vitalis in Ravenna itself. The titular Saint, the father of the Milanese martyrs Gervasius and Protasius, and said to have suffered martyrdom there; he and Apollinaris, the city’s first bishop and its patron Saint, are named Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-11686616283315162612026-10-15T07:00:00.000-04:002026-10-15T07:00:00.113-04:00A Great Interview on Medieval Catholic EnglandOur readers will certainly enjoy this fascinating interview recently given by Dr Bonnie Lander Johnson of Cambridge University on the podcast of the Catholic Truth Society in England, hosted by the CTS’s CEO and publisher, Pierpaolo Finaldi. The interview ranges over a wide variety of topics, but the part that I found especially interesting is where Dr Johnson talks about the relationship betweenGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-82182398060831842172026-10-14T16:00:00.000-04:002026-10-14T16:00:00.114-04:00Obrecht’s Mass of St DonatianusThe Martyrology notes today as the feast of a Saint called Donatianus (‘Donatien’ or ‘Donat’ in French, ‘Donatiaan’ or ‘Donaas’ in Dutch), who served as the seventh or eighth bishop of Reims in France from roughly 360-90. Alban Butler’s original Lives of the Saints has no information to offer about him, other than a mention of the translation of his relics to Bruges in 863. (In the revised modernGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7639616603736562872026-10-14T08:00:00.000-04:002026-10-15T07:33:13.048-04:00There Was No “Original Liturgical War”: A Response to Dmitri SolzhenitsynCommunion of the ApostlesThe following article was published at Crisis Magazine on October 7, 2026, and is reprinted here with the kind permission of the editor Eric Sammons.In an article published at The Catholic Thing on September 18, 2026, Dmitri Solzhenitsyn endeavors to summarize for readers what he calls “The Original ‘Liturgy Wars’: Between East and West.” His basic argument is that wars Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-44831051782815674542026-10-13T16:45:07.599-04:002026-10-13T16:45:07.599-04:00Latin for Musicians Class with Veterum Sapientia Institute - Starting Next Week!Join me online starting next Tuesday for the first part of a course offered by Veterum Sapientia Institute called “Latin for Musicians”. This course is designed especially for those who want to deepen their knowledge and appreciation of the Catholic Church’s sacred music, and will introduce the Latin grammar and vocabulary needed to understand the texts of the our musical patrimony. Students willGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-18716987740965014872026-10-13T08:00:00.000-04:002026-10-13T08:00:00.117-04:00On Gothic Art, Part 2Late Gothic masters, the threshold of the Renaissance, and the birth of secular artLast week I introduced the Gothic tradition: its historical origins in the cultural shifts of the 12th century, its theological character as the art of those on pilgrimage between the fallen world and heaven, and its visual characteristics as illustrated in works by Duccio, Lorenzetti, and Matthew Paris. This week David Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07041908477492455609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-46470658359673921202026-10-12T17:30:14.384-04:002026-10-16T06:45:47.130-04:00The Basilica of St Apollinaris in ClasseMy thanks to a friend for sharing with us these pictures which he took during a recent visit to one of best preserved paleo-Christian churches in Italy, the basilica of St Apollinaris in Classe, the ancient port of the city Ravenna. (In antiquity, Classe was directly on the sea, and important center for both commerce and the navy, but due to the silting-up of the Adriatic coast, it is now more Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-13645749397336894622026-10-12T08:00:00.000-04:002026-10-12T15:42:01.069-04:00Prayers for Pope LeoAs I am sure all of our readers have heard by now, during the Angelus in St Peter’s square yesterday, Pope Leo stated that his doctors had discovered a nodule in one of his lungs, “localized, and detected at a very early stage”, and that he will shortly undergo a surgical procedure to remove it.We encourage everyone to pray for the success of this operation, and a swift recovery for the Holy Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8950672541100978482026-10-11T07:00:00.000-04:002026-10-11T07:00:00.169-04:00The Feast of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council
In the Byzantine tradition, today is the commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, the second held in the city of Nicaea, at which the Iconoclast heresy was condemned, and the sacred images restored to their rightful places for the veneration of the Christian faithful. The definitive decree on the veneration of images was promulgated at the seventh session of Second Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-70384778729054172842026-10-10T08:00:00.000-04:002026-10-10T09:56:30.466-04:00Dr. Kwasniewski’s Lectures in Netherlands, Belgium, and England, Oct. 24-31I will be giving the following four lectures in Europe between Oct. 24 and Oct. 31, and hope to meet NLM readers at the events. Please come up and introduce yourself!“The Thomistic Virtue of Religion: From Sacred Order to Mystical Union”Saturday, October 24, 2026Nijmegen, NetherlandsFilosofie & Geloof (Philosophy & Faith) Study Day, 9:30am to 7pmSymposium on Ethics and the Human Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-58935668887009371102026-10-09T15:45:10.303-04:002026-10-09T15:46:05.740-04:00St John Henry Newman’s Church in OxfordTo celebrate the feast day of St John Henry Newman, here are some pictures I took of the famous university church of Oxford, St Mary’s, while I was there in August of 2019. St John Henry was appointed vicar of this church in 1828, and became very popular as a preacher; it was also here that John Keeble, on July 14, 1833, preached the famous sermon titled “National Apostasy”, an event which NewmanGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-69294316193735254422026-10-09T08:00:00.000-04:002026-10-09T08:00:00.170-04:00The Priest’s Final Prayers before Holy Communion, Part 3Lost in Translation #171
After finishing the Perceptio Corporis tui, the priest prays:
Panem caelestem accipiam, et nomen Domini invocabo.
Which I translate as:
I will take the heavenly Bread, and I will call upon the name of the Lord.
This declaration is an adaptation of Psalm 115, 13 (see below), with “heavenly Bread” replacing “the Chalice of salvation.” And “heavenly bread” (panis Michael P. Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649905848645336033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-73212184846441781442026-10-08T16:30:00.000-04:002026-10-08T17:07:56.211-04:00“The Myth of Post-Conciliar Decentralization” - A New Video from Unam Sanctam CatholicamOur friend Phillip Campbell, author of the blog Unam Sanctam Catholicam, has just put up a new video on his YouTube channel, titled “The Myth of Post-Conciliar Decentralization,” which is very much worth your time. His point is that the common telling that the Church was decentralized by the reforms enacted after the most recent ecumenical council is just that, a myth - not in the sense made Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0