noreply@blogger.com (Richard Chonak)Wed, 20 May 2026 09:48:50 -0400Blogger http://www.blogger.com17971125https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/en-usnonoreply@blogger.comhttps://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/could-introduction-of-microphones-have.htmlacousticsJarnickiLiturgical ReformMcLuhanmicrophoneNico Fassinoversus populumnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Wed, 20 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2871555786111034571We are very pleased to share the following thought-provoking essay by Paweł Jarnicki, which was first published in Polish at Christianitas. The text has been translated into English with the support of machine translation and will be published at NLM in three installments, this week and next. It is one of the most insightful treatments of the question I have ever seen, and 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-minor-litanies-in-ambrosian-rite.htmlAmbrosian RiteNicola de' GrandiRogation Daysnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Tue, 19 May 2026 16:15:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-9089727141025810730This post comes entirely from notes written by our Ambrosian expert, Nicola de’ Grandi. The photos were taken yesterday at the church of Santa Maria della Consolazione in Milan, where the traditional rite is celebrated, and which observed the Minor Litanies with a procession and a station within the church. (In previous years it has been held outside, but yesterday it was raining.) Last month,&0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/catholic-art-school-incorporates.htmlBenedictineDavid ClaytonMusica DomesticaRobert PuschautzStabat Mater AtelierStabat Mater Foundationnoreply@blogger.com (David Clayton)Tue, 19 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2272506521444343466Chanting the Psalms daily and refectory reading are part of the artistic community’s own Way of BeautyFor those looking to train as artists in a Catholic environment, I recommend the Stabat Mater Atelier (see A Catholic Art School with Full Four-Year Training in Classical Naturalism), which teaches the traditional, rigorous drawing and painting known as the ‘Academic’ method. I was privileged to 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/vestments-from-archdiocesan-museum-of_0298568026.htmlblue vestmentsPolandVestmentsnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Mon, 18 May 2026 08:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-5616039279703606572This is the second set of photos taken by a friend, Mr Anatole Upart, at the museum of the archdiocese of Warsaw, Poland, during a recent visit. In the first part, which I posted on Saturday, most of the vestments were liturgical white, here we have a wide variety of colors, including blue. Among the Slavs who use the Byzantine Rite, blue has become de facto the standard color for feasts of the 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-sunday-after-ascension.htmlAscensionnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sun, 17 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6737356241166037161Hear, o Lord, my voice, with which I have cried to thee.” After the first anointing, which they had received in the death of Christ, as He breathed upon them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit”, the Apostles awaited the second anointing which the Lord had promised, saying, “If I shall go; I shall send the Paraclete to you.” Therefore, as they await, they sing in the Introit, “Hear.”Introitus Ps 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/vestments-from-archdiocesan-museum-of.htmlPolandVestmentsnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sat, 16 May 2026 16:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7369917191701082959This post is something of a follow-up to one I made last week about a chasuble decorated with images of the events surrounding the martyrdom of St Stanislaus, bishop of Krakow, Poland. These pictures come from a friend, Mr Anatole Upart, who recently visited the museum of the archdiocese of Warsaw, and very kindly shared with us these pictures of its very impressive collection of liturgical 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/a-legend-of-st-brendan-navigator.htmlfeastsIrelandsaintsnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sat, 16 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8565092203812509053In Ireland, today is the feast of a sainted monk named Brendan, who is traditionally said to have been born in Clonfert in the year 484, and to have died in 577 at the age of 94. He is sometimes called “the Younger” to distinguish him from another Brendan, of Birr, or “the Elder.” They were both disciples of St Finnian, the founder of one of the first abbeys in the country, Clonard, and belong to0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-folklore-of-ascension-day.htmlAscensionFrancis X. WeiserMichael Foleynoreply@blogger.com (Michael P. Foley)Fri, 15 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-3272872655520216797Having praised the writings of Fr. Francis X. Weiser in two previous posts (here and here), I thought it meet to share the following excerpt from his magnum opus, the Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs (New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1958), pp. 243-45.Ascension Plays During the tenth century some dramatic details were added to the liturgical procession on Ascension Day in the 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/a-monument-of-constantine-great-in-new.htmlByzantine ArtRelicsnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 14 May 2026 18:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-3341424712763291950Three days ago, we marked the anniversary of the dedication of Constantinople in 330 AD as the “New Rome.” In the nearly 17 centuries that have passed since then, the city has undergone countless vicissitudes which have done tremendous damage to its monuments, and very little now remains from the days of Constantine himself. The most prominent and oldest surviving monument of his era is a large 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-ascension-of-lord-2026.htmlAmbrosian RiteAscensionnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 14 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2846352557427660663 Truly it is fitting… though Christ our Lord. Who after the Resurrection, which is glorious unto all ages, appeared openly to His disciples, visible to their sight and palpable to the touch, unto the fortieth day, and was raised up unto heaven as they watched; from which time they did so profit, that what they believed might become more certain, and that they might learn more fully what to teach.0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/durandus-on-vigil-of-ascension.htmlAscensionMedieval LiturgyvigilsWilliam Durandusnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Wed, 13 May 2026 14:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6820910901635318432The following text is most of section 103 of book six of William Durandus’ Rationale Divinorum Officiorum; a few obscure passages have been omitted. The vigil of the Ascension is one of the relatively few features of the temporal cycle in which there was a lot of variation between different Uses of the Roman Rite in the Middle Ages, and some of the texts which he refers to here differ from those 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/why-at-nuptial-mass-couple-may-and.htmlcare clothcommunion railCustomsmarriageSarumThe Roman Ritualvelatio nuptialisnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-3053203097681616372Now that we are on the threshold of peak wedding season, it is opportune to publish the following letter, which makes a case for the restoration of a longstanding traditional practice that, in the confusion of recent decades, has fallen by the wayside but deserves to be recovered. We publish it here with minor edits to make it more universal than its original epistolary form. – PAKDear Reverend 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/a-homily-of-st-gregory-great-carved-in.htmlbreviaryfeastsRoman BasilicassaintsSt. Gregory the Greatnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Tue, 12 May 2026 09:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-5856381367329605341Today is the feast of two Roman Saints named Nereus and Achilleus. An inscription placed over their burial place by Pope St Damasus I (366-84) tells us that they were soldiers who were forced to participate in the persecution of Christians, but threw away their weapons and armor, and were in turn martyred for the Faith. There can be no doubt of the authenticity of their martyrdom, or that their 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-foundation-of-constantinople.htmlByzantine Liturgynoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Mon, 11 May 2026 18:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-1381967416218588326On this day in 330 AD, the emperor Constantine presided over the dedication of a new capital of the Roman Empire, after six years of building on the site of the ancient city of Byzantium. The Greek historian Herodotus (ca. 485-425 B.C.) places the founding of Byzantium in 656 B.C., and in 334 AD, Constantine also presided over celebrations of its millennial anniversary; this indicates that he did0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-institution-of-rogation-days.htmlLiturgical HistoryRogation Daysnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Mon, 11 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2427342765074411604Today is the first day of the penitential observance known as the Lesser Rogations, and also, by coincidence, the feast of St Mamertus, bishop of Vienne in France, who first instituted them around the year 470 A.D. His successor but one, St Avitus, has left us a sermon on the Rogations, in which he describes the reason why they were instituted, in the wake of a series of public calamities. St 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-fifth-sunday-after-easter.htmlEaster seasonIntroitnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sun, 10 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8183347825471200671Proclaim ye the voice of joy, alleluia, and let it be heard, alleluia, proclaim it unto the end of the earth: the Lord hath delivered his people, alleluia, alleluia. Ps. 65 Shout with joy to God, all the earth, sing ye a psalm to his name; give glory to his praise. Glory be to the Father... Proclaim ye... (The Introit of the Fifth Sunday after Easter,)Introitus (Isa 48) Vocem jucunditátis 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/st-pachomius-of-egypt.htmlfeastsmonastic lifeRule of St. BenedictsaintsSt Jeromenoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sat, 9 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8518475009365744345On May 9th, the Coptic Church commemorates one of the great early monastic patriarchs, a native Egyptian called Pachom, whose name is Latinized as Pachomius. He was one of the most influential figures on the organization of monastic life in the 4th century; this is true even in the West, (where his feast has only been kept very rarely), since St Benedict adopted many of his ideas into his 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-shrine-of-st-michael-archangel-on.htmlSt. Michaelnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Fri, 8 May 2026 14:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-9011844797694755486 Today is the feast which celebrates the Apparition of St Michael on Mount Gargano in the Italian region of Puglia. I have previously described the circumstances of the apparition in greater detail; there has been a shrine dedicated to him in one form or another on the site ever since it took place at the end of the 5th century. In the entry for his principal feast day in September, the Roman 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/learned-blunders-impact-of-flawed.htmlAd orientemChurch Fathersconcelebrationliturgical orientationMichael FoleyOrdinary Timenoreply@blogger.com (Michael P. Foley)Fri, 8 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-5306548785898435582 Most of the debates about the liturgical reforms of the twentieth century are understandably concerned with theological or ideological elements. Critics of the 1962 Missal worry that the old Mass is too hierarchical and too aligned with an outdated political ideology, a relic of the days of the Ancien Régime. Critics of the 1969 Missal, on other hand, wonder if the new Mass is too egalitarian, 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/online-resources-for-papal-ceremonies.htmlonline resourcesPapal LiturgySacramentariesnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 7 May 2026 18:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8887390802943494583The creators of the Poland-based website Caeremoniale Romanum have contacted us to share news of a couple of important new resources which they have recently added to the site.At the following page: https://caeremonialeromanum.com/en/caeremonialia-papalia-dykmans/, you will find links to two different works by the Belgian Jesuit Fr Marc Dykmans. The first is his four volume series, “Le 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-life-of-st-stanislaus-depicted-on.htmlfeastsHistorical VestmentsNicola de' GrandiPolandsaintsnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 7 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-622099664613128465On the general calendar of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St Stanislaus (1030-79), a priest of Krakow who was well-known as an excellent preacher, and elected bishop of that see in 1072. The king of Poland at the time, Bolesław II, was a talented and capable man, but indulged in many evil deeds; he kidnapped a noblewoman after whom he lusted, and stole property from the Church. For this, 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/the-feast-of-st-john-at-latin-gate.htmlByzantine LiturgyChurch FathersfeastsRoman BasilicassaintsSt John the EvangelistStation Churchesnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Wed, 6 May 2026 13:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2197888636950205334 John was an Apostle, an Evangelist, and a Prophet: an Apostle, because he wrote to the churches as a teacher; an Evangelist, because he wrote a book of the Gospels, which the other twelve Apostles did not do, apart from Matthew; and a Prophet, for on the island of Patmos, whither he had been banished by Domitian because of his testimony to the Lord, he beheld the Apocalypse, which contains such 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/introducing-thomistic-artists-guild.htmlcompetitionsconferencesSacred ArtThomistic Artists Guildnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Wed, 6 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8094248906275802263NLM received the following notice from Fr. James O’Reilly, FSSP, and is pleased to share it with the public.Where has beauty in the arts gone? Buildings are gray, woke agendas are tied to a film’s plot, and classical music usually has one or two channels on public radio. Western Civilization experienced a Renaissance before and it is time for another one to begin. Great works of art were often 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/abbe-henri-dutilliets-little-liturgical.htmlOs Justi PressResourcesnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Tue, 5 May 2026 14:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2846455730436646556On this feast of St. Pius V, I am pleased to share with NLM readers the latest release from Os Justi Press, Abbé Henri Dutilliet’s Little Liturgical Catechism. Inspired by the efforts of Dom Prosper Guéranger, Dutilliet’s remarkable work, first published in French in 1860, offers a comprehensive distillation of the Roman liturgy and the Church’s annual cycle of worship.This fine but forgotten 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/05/a-new-commission-by-artist-henry.htmlDavid ClaytonHenry WingateSacred Artnoreply@blogger.com (David Clayton)Tue, 5 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-3845279443724977359I was delighted to hear from an old friend, Henry Wingate, who wanted to tell me about his latest project, a painting of Our Lady of La Vang, commissioned by Holy Rosary Church, in Houston, Texas.I will admit that I didn’t know anything about this apparition and what follows comes from the Wikipedia entry, which I am trusting is accurate.“Our Lady of La Vang is a Marian apparition associated0