tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150187272026-07-30T12:08:19.788-04:00New Liturgical MovementRichard Chonakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02327763839418228519noreply@blogger.comBlogger17986120tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-79766563991255869702026-07-29T13:00:00.000-04:002026-07-29T13:00:00.110-04:00The Antipope Venerated as a Saint
The feast of St Martha is kept today with a commemoration of four Roman martyrs named Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrix. This commemoration originated as two separate observances, which seem to have been united because St Felix was buried in a catacomb named for him along the via Portuensis, the great ancient road which led to the port of Rome, while the other three were buried further Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-15011226590117794552026-07-29T07:00:00.000-04:002026-07-29T07:00:00.120-04:00Reader Appeal: Origins of the Terminology “Liturgy of the Catechumens” and “Liturgy of the Faithful”?If one looks at an old Roman hand missal, one will find the Mass divided into two parts, “the Mass of the Catechumens” and “the Mass of the Faithful.” Like most people, I had supposed this was an ancient division. However, Lynne C. Boughton, in her fascinating article “An Imagined Past: Initiation, Liturgical Secrecy, and ‘Mass of the Catechumens’” (Antiphon 25.2 [2021]: 161–210), believes that Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-29717397461576524112026-07-28T08:00:00.000-04:002026-07-28T08:00:00.113-04:00Introducing Aidan Hart’s Consultancy: KALOS Liturgical Design. Serving Roman Catholic, Byzantine Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches and communitiesI want to recommend a new venture founded by my friend and former teacher, Aidan Hart, who is one of the foremost iconographers in the UK. KALOS is a design consultancy and team of highly skilled practitioners which offers churches a way to rethink the design of their sacred spaces and commission David Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07041908477492455609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-13953121974599615082026-07-27T17:00:02.864-04:002026-07-27T17:01:46.761-04:00A Calendar Wheel in Lyon CathedralA friend of mine recently sent me this picture of a calendar wheel, which is part of an astronomical clock in the cathedral of St John the Baptist in Lyon, France. (The clock was built in 1661 to replace earlier one destroyed by the Huguenots in 1562; it has been restored several times.) The outer part is the current liturgical calendar, printed on a card that is supposed to rotate a little bit Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-59245990006998061692026-07-27T08:00:00.000-04:002026-07-27T08:32:08.904-04:00A Richer TableThat a richer table of the word of God may be provided for the faithful, let the treasures of the Bible be opened up more plentifully. - Sacrosanctum Concilium 51 (my own, corrected translation)The LORD said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water. I bought the loincloth, as the LORD commanded, and put it on. A second time the word of the LORD Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-88842646891568424682026-07-25T13:00:00.000-04:002026-07-27T11:23:09.671-04:00Announcing a New Initiative: CMAA GroupsThe Church Music Association of America, the owner and publisher of the New Liturgical Movement, has started a new initiative called CMAA Groups. Goups@musicasacra.com. We want to extend the spirit of our annual Colloquium throughout the year. It is important, however, that you know who we are, where we come from, and why we do what we do. We also want to build our membership. We have many Father Robert C Pasleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17372996706934341319noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6721574785003793582026-07-25T07:00:00.000-04:002026-07-25T07:00:00.113-04:00The Incarnation, the Passion, and the Eucharist as Keys to Rightly Interpreting the Song of SongsIf you’ve ever read the Song of Songs (also called the Canticle of Canticles) in the Old Testament, you probably had more than a few questions about it! What is this very sensuous book about a lover and a beloved doing in the canon of Scripture? Are the modern biblical exegetes right when they say it’s just a loose collection of ancient Near Eastern erotic poetry that accidentally found its way Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-45128044924651711762026-07-24T15:00:00.000-04:002026-07-25T07:50:26.262-04:00Two Recent Articles on Sacred MusicReaders may find interesting two recent articles by Trent Beattie concerning the ever-fresh subject of sacred music.A fun look at what is and is not allowed in Mass... Is it possible for the love of sacred music to go too far? Comparing the Church’s directives with practical parish realities can often reveal a gap...It is the duty of the priest to pray the Mass, but it does not follow that Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-47741182397051393222026-07-24T07:00:00.000-04:002026-07-24T12:47:29.259-04:00The Fraction and ComminglingLost in Translation #166
As the priest says the adjuration to the Embolism (per eumdem Dominum nostrum…), he breaks the Host in two and then breaks off a small particle. Laying down the two large halves on the paten, he holds the particle over the chalice, makes the sign of the cross three times with it, and says Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum, that is, “May the peace of the Lord be with you Michael P. Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649905848645336033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-41919689467299987582026-07-23T08:00:33.122-04:002026-07-23T08:57:35.078-04:00Notes on the Slavonic Feast of Saint EliasMany thanks to Mr Danijel Uremović for sharing with us this article about the feast of the Prophet Elijah, which was celebrated on Monday, and figures prominently in the tradition of the Glagolitic Missal used in his native Croatia, and in some other regions of the Balkan peninsula. We recently published his account of a Glagolitic Mass celebrated in Sydney, Australia, for the local Croatian Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-50669975619756074072026-07-22T14:00:00.000-04:002026-07-22T14:00:00.110-04:00The Feast of St Mary Magdalene 2026
To Him that in the excess of His compassion did willingly live in my poverty, even Christ our God, o Mary Magdalene, thou didst faithfully minister as a disciple, and having beheld Him stretched out upon the Tree, and enclosed within the tomb, thou didst cry out while shedding many tears, “What strange sight is this? How is He that giveth life to the dead reckoned among the dead? What perfumes Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-82430086305480374892026-07-22T08:00:00.000-04:002026-07-22T08:00:00.117-04:00Interesting Liturgical Sights on a Recent Trip to Europe (2): VeniceConcluding the gallery I began last week, today I have a small number of photos to share from Venice (and one that was taken elsewhere, as will be noted in due course).In the Franciscan church Santa Maria Gloriosa “dei Frari - of the Friars”, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the altar in the Blessed Sacrament chapel had been fitted out with a new and rather handsome icon of St. Maximilian Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8955273559053947472026-07-21T18:00:00.000-04:002026-07-21T18:01:12.373-04:00Vespers for the American Semiquincentennial in Philadelphia, This SaturdayThe Durandus Institute for Sacred Liturgy & Music invites you to join in a commemoration of the Semiquincentennial (250th anniversary) of the founding of the United States, with a celebration of Vespers as it would have been experienced in 1776 in a Catholic chapel of the Thirteen Colonies. It will take place at St. Augustine Church, within walking distance of Independence Hall, on the feast Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-70592528107939376662026-07-21T08:00:00.000-04:002026-07-21T08:00:00.118-04:00The Crown of Thorns and the Lily Cross: the Symbolism of the New Adam and the New EveAs expressed in Byzantine hymns and three paintings: English Pre-Raphaelite, Hieronymus Bosch, and an English medieval wall paintingThe symbolism of the crown of thorns is rich. What was meant as a sign of degradation becomes, for Christians, a sign of Christ’s triumph over suffering and death as the King of Kings. Jesus transforms the symbol of the curse into one of redemption. This also David Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07041908477492455609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-55492045374207027542026-07-20T17:00:00.000-04:002026-07-20T17:00:00.107-04:00An Italian Chapel in ZimbabweMy thanks to an old friend, Mr Marlow Gazzoli, for sharing these pictures which he took during a recent visit to a chapel dedicated to St Francis of Assisi in the city of Masvingo in central Zimbabwe. It was built by Italian P.O.W.s who had been captured by the British during fighting in Africa during World War II, and brought to an internment camp in what was then the British colony of Rhodesia.Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-89942665905490966022026-07-20T08:00:27.109-04:002026-07-20T08:01:39.080-04:00An Icon of the Prophet Elijah
In the liturgical Calendar of the Byzantine Rite, and in the two Carmelite Orders, July 20th is the feast of the Prophet Elijah. The Eastern tradition keeps almost all of the Prophets as Saints, and honors them as such in the liturgy. Veneration of Saints of the Old Testament is hardly known to the West, however, and where it is observed in the Latin rites, it arose under Eastern influence. The Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-63982812820224500282026-07-19T17:30:00.000-04:002026-07-19T17:30:21.303-04:00Durandus on the Office of Vespers (Part 2): the MagnificatThis excerpt from William Durandus’ Rationale Divinorum Officium (V, 9) on the office of Vespers continues on from the section which I posted yesterday. As is his wont from time to time, our friend is more than a little prolix and obscure here, so this is to no small degree a paraphrase.The Magnificat is said every day, so that the memory of the Lord’s incarnation may more frequently inspire the Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-38523369795200475562026-07-19T07:30:00.000-04:002026-07-19T07:30:00.111-04:00St Macrina the Younger, and the Phos HilaronIn the Byzantine Rite, today is the feast of St Macrina (327 ca. – 379), the older sister of Ss Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. She is traditionally given the epithet “the Younger” to distinguish her from their sainted paternal grandmother, who was a disciple of St Gregory the Wonderworker. Their parents, Basil the Elder and Emmelia, their brother Peter, bishop of Sebaste, and another Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-53587306777016513342026-07-18T18:00:00.000-04:002026-07-18T18:00:00.116-04:00Durandus on Saturday Vespers (Part 1)The following excerpts are taken from William Durandus’ great liturgical commentary, the Rationale Divinorum Officium, book V (which treats of the Divine Office), chapter 9, on Vespers. I have titled it “on Saturday Vespers” because the psalms of Saturday Vespers (143-147, in the traditional arrangement before St Pius X’s reform) are the only ones which he comments on specifically. The part Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-16329737813541881002026-07-18T07:15:06.124-04:002026-07-18T07:15:06.125-04:00The Anniversary of St Thomas Aquinas’ CanonizationSt Thomas Aquinas was canonized on this day in the year 1323. Although popular devotion to him began as soon as he died, the Dominicans did not begin officially collecting testimonies to his sanctity until 1317, over 40 years after his death. Representatives of the Order presented their evidence to Pope John XXII (1316-34, the second Avignon Pope) in an audience the following year, at which the Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0