tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150187272026-08-20T07:52:41.710-04:00New Liturgical MovementRichard Chonakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02327763839418228519noreply@blogger.comBlogger18015120tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-77276563419993881862026-08-20T07:30:00.000-04:002026-08-20T07:30:00.195-04:00A Medieval Hymn of St Bernard
Here is a very nice medieval hymn for the feast of St Bernard of Clairvaux, which is used in the Cistercian Divine Office at both Vespers of his feast. According to the Analecta hymnica, the great catalog of medieval liturgical hymns, both the author and the date of composition are unknown, but it appears in several Cistercian sources in the 13th century, and has been in continual use within theGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-40120037487608559302026-08-19T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-19T07:03:06.445-04:00Eucharistic Prayer II and the Anaphora of Hippolytus: A Critical Analysis (Conclusion)We complete today the publication of Ignacio Gallardo Tampe’s guest article on the history of the so-called Anaphora of Hippolytus and its relationship to the Second Eucharistic Prayer. Part one was published last Wednesday, and part two on Friday.Observations on Liturgical PracticeIn this final section, I will offer some observations on the ars celebrandi and liturgical practice, as well as makePeter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-52213030269593181912026-08-18T13:07:06.936-04:002026-08-18T13:07:06.936-04:00Photos of the Annual Eucharistic Procession by Boat in Louisiana on the AssumptionOn Saturday, August 15th, the twelfth annual Eucharistic Procession by boat down Bayou Teche, Louisiana, was held as part of the celebration of the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patroness of the Acadian people and of the Acadiana region. This day also marks the anniversary of the arrival of French-Canadian immigrants to the area in 1765, those who brought the Catholic faith Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-52030940514771671602026-08-17T14:00:02.424-04:002026-08-20T07:52:41.710-04:00The Election of Pope Benedict XIVToday marks the anniversary of the election in 1740 of Pope Benedict XIV, who is rightly regarded as one of the most learned men ever to sit on the throne of St Peter. He was born in 1675 as Prospero Lambertini, to a noble family of Bologna, the second city of the Papal States. When he was 13, he was sent to Rome to pursue the typical course of ecclesiastical studies, including Latin, philosophy Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-27694153342635565132026-08-16T07:04:56.880-04:002026-08-16T07:04:56.881-04:00Vespers and Procession of the Assumption in Paris
In February of 1638, the wife of King Louis XIII of France, Anne of Austria, was in the early months of her fifth pregnancy, after four stillbirths; this was in the twenty-third year of their marriage, the queen then being thirty-seven years old. Hoping to obtain by the Virgin Mary’s intercession the safe birth of a royal heir, the king declared a vow of consecration to Her of his own person andGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6336645015348171302026-08-15T07:00:02.815-04:002026-08-15T07:00:02.815-04:00A Glorious Byzantine Chant for the AssumptionAt the command of almighty God, the God-bearing Apostles were caught up from wherever they were, and lifted up on high by the clouds; coming to Thy all-pure and life-creating body, they venerated it with great honor. And the most exalted hosts of heaven, having arrived with their Master, accompanied the most pure body which had received God; being seized with awe, they went forth in a heavenly Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-70227488675902126292026-08-14T16:00:00.000-04:002026-08-14T19:33:30.708-04:00Eucharistic Prayer II and the Anaphora of Hippolytus: A Critical Analysis (Part 2)Bernard Botte and Louis Bouyer, authors of EP II; Annibale Bugnini, who admitted EP II did not follow the "Canon of Hippolytus"We continue the publication of Ignacio Gallardo Tampe’s guest article on the history of the so-called Anaphora of Hippolytus and its relationship to the Second Eucharistic Prayer. Part 1 was published on Wednesday.1. The Text Attributed to HippolytusIt should be noted Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-50962362790778030232026-08-14T07:30:00.000-04:002026-08-14T22:32:35.289-04:00The 1570 Missale Romanum and the Devotion to the Dormition in Jerusalem
In a previous post, we described the 1951 changes to the Propers for the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Here, we return to the 1570 Roman Missal and its implicit endorsement of the Eastern tradition that Our Lady “fell asleep in the Lord” before being assumed body and soul into Heaven. We also coordinate this belief with the devotions to Our Lady in the city of Jerusalem.
Michael P. Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649905848645336033noreply@blogger.com0Jerusalem, Israel31.7768831 35.2224346000000073.4666492638211537 0.06618460000000681 60.087116936178845 70.378684600000014tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-35370463890617925992026-08-13T16:00:00.000-04:002026-08-17T19:55:54.821-04:00Graduate Sacred Music Study in a Rich Liturgical EnvironmentWe’ve just wrapped up a tremendous summer here at the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music and are looking forward to the next!The rich liturgical environment of the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music immerses students in the Church’s treasury of sacred music – Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony – in the context of the sung celebration of the Roman rite (both usus antiquior and usus recentior). Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-76112485797873179612026-08-13T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-13T07:00:00.170-04:00Ss Hippolytus and Cassian: One Confusion... and AnotherThe thirteenth of August is the feast of St Hippolytus, an officer of the guards in the prison where St Lawrence was held, whom the latter converted to Christianity. He is said to have taken the body of Lawrence for burial; reproved for this by the Emperor Decius, and threatened with torture and death, he answered “May I merit to be a likeness of the blessed martyr Lawrence, whom you have dared Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-40909214675468415612026-08-12T16:00:00.000-04:002026-08-12T16:00:00.171-04:00Miracles of St Clare of Assisi
St Clare died on August 11, 1253, at the age of 59. The pope at the time, Innocent IV, had known her personally for many years, and had even come with his court to the church of San Damiano in Assisi, the first Franciscan women’s house, which Clare had ruled over for many years, in order to be present for her funeral. The story is told that he had such a high regard of her sanctity that he Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-54695329289793688112026-08-12T07:30:00.000-04:002026-08-12T22:02:37.747-04:00Eucharistic Prayer II and the Anaphora of Hippolytus: A Critical Analysis (Part 1)The following guest article by Ignacio Gallardo Tampe will be published in three parts. This study aims to elucidate the differences between the Second Eucharistic Prayer and the so-called Anaphora of Hippolytus, which are often erroneously spoken of as if they were identical. Furthermore, this article intends to provide a critical analysis of current liturgical praxis and the near-exclusive use Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-85145284926275229252026-08-11T08:00:00.000-04:002026-08-11T08:04:37.542-04:00Study the Canons of Orthros To Understand the Traditional Symbolism of Christian ArtYears ago, I attended a lecture on the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the fascinating story of its compilation and editing. (Believe me, it was fascinating!) One thing I remember being told, almost in passing, was that the editors insisted every edition include a small number of pictures they deemed essential. I was always puzzled by this painting of the three young men in the fiery furnaceDavid Claytonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07041908477492455609noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-56427047817411842062026-08-10T15:45:25.278-04:002026-08-10T17:03:44.097-04:00Complete Video of a Recent Glagolitic Mass Celebrated in AustraliaEarly last month, we posted photos of a Solemn Mass celebrated on the feast of the Precious Blood for the Croatian Catholic community of Sydney, Australia, according to the traditional Glagolitic Missal, which is the Roman Missal translated into a form of Church Slavonic. A complete video of the Mass was recently made available on an Australia-based YouTube channel called New Ark Films. I am sureGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-73872348795888815282026-08-10T08:15:00.000-04:002026-08-10T08:15:00.121-04:00The Feast of St Lawrence in Other Western RitesIt was the custom of the earliest Christians to obtain transcripts of the trials of their martyrs whenever they could. These were kept in the archives of local churches not merely for the sake of record keeping, but so that they could be read during the liturgy, a tradition which is attested in the writings of several of the Fathers. The Roman custom of reading the lives of the Saints in the Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-785315232505357602026-08-09T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-09T07:00:00.110-04:00St Romanus the MartyrIn the Roman Breviary of 1481, the following account is given of St Romanus, a solder who was converted by seeing the constancy of St Lawrence in his torments. His feast is kept today.
At Rome, the birth of St Romanus, a soldier who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ through the words of St Lawrence, and said to (him), “I see before thee a most fair youth, standing with a linen cloth, and wiping Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-14837595674117005772026-08-08T08:45:00.000-04:002026-08-08T08:45:00.115-04:00The Church of Ss Peter and Paul in Biasca, Switzerland (Part 2)Last week, we published Nicola’s pictures of the interior of the church of Ss Peter and Paul in Biasca, a town in Canton Ticino, Switzerland, which has been part of the territory of the Ambrosian Rite since at least the 6th century. As a follow-up, here are some pictures of the exterior, very much in the Romanesque style of its period, the second half of the twelfth century. At the end are some Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-51745411181050439652026-08-07T15:00:00.000-04:002026-08-10T12:39:26.440-04:00Uncomfortable Comparisons? Fr. Barthe on the Traditional and New Sacramental RitesIn 1969, A Short Critical Study of the Novus Ordo Missae was published with the signatures of two powerful cardinals, Bacci and Ottaviani. Nicknamed The Ottaviani Intervention, it quickly become a classic, and has never gone out of print. But... where was its companion volume? You know, the one about the other six sacraments?For, indeed, the reform of the Mass was accompanied by a profound Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6091499552715420752026-08-07T07:00:00.000-04:002026-08-07T21:53:13.977-04:00Review of Cosima Clara Gillhammer’s Light on Darkness: The Untold Story of the LiturgyIn his book The Restoration of Christian Culture, John Senior writes:
Whatever we do in the political and social order, the indispensable foundation is prayer, the heart of which is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the perfect prayer of Christ himself, Priest and Victim, recreating in an unbloody manner the bloody, selfsame Sacrifice of Calvary. What is Christian Culture? It is essentially the Michael P. Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649905848645336033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-49286379635612061452026-08-06T16:50:00.000-04:002026-08-07T21:53:24.048-04:00Solar Horarium, Organ Improvisation, Homeschool Music Curriculum, Sarum Rite, Aesthetics - Find It All in Season 8 of Square NotesAs the summer winds down, catch up with the latest (eighth!) season of Square Notes: The Sacred Music Podcast! The show is on its annual summer hiatus because of the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music’s summer graduate program; season nine will launch in the fall with new episodes. The timeless topics of the past season are well worth the time, whether you’re a church musician, casual appreciatorUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0