noreply@blogger.com (Richard Chonak)Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:11:51 -0400Blogger http://www.blogger.com18093125https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/en-usnonoreply@blogger.comhttps://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/prayers-for-pope-leo.htmlMonastère Saint BenoîtPope Leo XIVnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-1364574939733689462As 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/the-feast-of-holy-fathers-of-seventh.htmlByzantine LiturgyIconsSacred Artnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-895067254110097848 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/dr-kwasniewskis-lectures-in-netherlands.htmlEventslecturesPeter Kwasniewskinoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7038477872905417284I 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/st-john-henry-newmans-church-in-oxford.htmlBlessed John Henry NewmanOxfordnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Fri, 9 Oct 2026 15:45:10 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-5893566888700937110To 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 Newman0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/lost-in-translation-171-after-finishing.htmlLost in Translation seriesMichael Foleynoreply@blogger.com (Michael P. Foley)Fri, 9 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6929431619373525442Lost 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/the-myth-of-post-conciliar.htmlLiturgical ReformPhillip Campbellnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 8 Oct 2026 16:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7321218484644178144Our 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/the-festival-of-personal-ordinariate-of.htmlAndrew GoldsteinDavid ClaytonMusica DomesticaThe Scala FoundationThe Vigil Projectnoreply@blogger.com (David Clayton)Thu, 8 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6776149543128654515David Clayton and Andrew Goldstein will speak on the theme: Beauty, Truth and GoodnessI look forward to attending and speaking at the annual festival of the Anglican Ordinariate of England, Wales, and Scotland. The three-day program is shown here.I will give three presentations on art in the liturgy, with particular reference to what forms might be appropriate for this Use of the Roman Rite; how 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/pope-pius-xi-on-holy-rosary.htmlPius XIrosarynoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Wed, 7 Oct 2026 16:00:04 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6042778562814664259For many years, it has been our custom to mark today’s feast with an excerpt from one of Pope Leo XIII’s eleven encyclicals on the Holy Rosary, but this year, I happened to come across the only one on the same subject by Pope Pius XI (1922-39). Ingravescentibus malis was issued on the feast of St Michael the Archangel in 1937, and would be Pius’ very last encyclical, even though he lived for 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/a-liturgical-ordo-from-1681-owned-by.htmlart of the bookLiturgical CalendarOrdoPeter Kwasniewskinoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Wed, 7 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-9045406457916342654Of the three books I examined in Milwaukee, in many ways this was the most fascinating: a liturgical ordo for the year 1681 (MDCLXXXI), owned by a cardinal, as the beautifully gold-stamped white leather cover indicates, and as a hand-written message on the inside cover confirms: the book belonged to “Cardinal Altieri (Paluzzo Degli Albertoni), cardinal in 1664, bishop of Porto... died 29 June 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/the-charterhouse-of-pavia.htmlCarthusiansMilanNicola de' GrandiPatron Saintsnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Tue, 6 Oct 2026 15:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7432214947384708704 For the feast of Saint Bruno, the founder of the Carthusian Order, here are some pictures from Nicola of one of the most beautiful of the order’s monasteries, that of Pavia in Lombardy, about 8 kilometers north of the city. It was founded by the Duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Visconi, in 1396, partly to fulfill a vow made by his wife for a safe childbirth, partly as an expression of the 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/gothic-art-1.htmlDavid ClaytonGothicSacred Artnoreply@blogger.com (David Clayton)Tue, 6 Oct 2026 07:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-10356058583147019The art of pilgrimageIn this and another post next week, I want to look at the Gothic style of Christian art: where it came from, what makes it theologically and artistically distinctive, and how to recognize it in practice through a series of examples. Part 2, next week, turns to the later Gothic masters, the point at which the style begins its transition toward the Renaissance, and the 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/why-translation-matters.htmlLectionaryScriptureSt JerometranslationVulgatenoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Mon, 5 Oct 2026 11:18:05 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7584395835930281721In the post-Conciliar Rite, yesterday was the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time, and in the current year of the three-year cycle of Sunday readings (A), the Gospel was Matthew 21, 33-43, the parable of the vineyard owner. In the Roman Rite, a slightly longer version of this Gospel, going to verse 46, is read on the 2nd Friday of Lent. This is retained in the same place in the post-Conciliar Rite, but 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/a-proper-hymn-of-st-francis-of-assisi.htmldivine officehymnsMedieval LiturgySt Francis of Assisinoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sun, 4 Oct 2026 14:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2897201009528046315This year the Church marks the 8th centenary of the death of St Francis of Assisi, which took place later on the evening of October 3rd, 1226. Following the ancient (and indeed pre-Christian) principle that feasts begin on the preceding evening, his feast is assigned to today, October 4th. Here is a very nice recording of the hymn for 2nd Vespers of the proper Office composed for him shortly 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/the-book-of-hours-of-marguerite-of_0376299783.htmlBooks of HoursLittle Office of the Blessed Virgin MaryMedieval Artnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sat, 3 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8876929427317241198This is the second set of images from one of the finest Books of Hours in the vast collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Département des Manuscrits, Latin 1156B), made around 1430 for a noblewoman named Marguerite of Orleans (1406-66).  The first set was published on Thursday, and contained an example of the calendar pages, the images accompanying the Little Office of the 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/the-vespers-hymn-for-feast-of-guardian.htmlfeastsGuardian AngelshymnsVespersnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Fri, 2 Oct 2026 15:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6619349132329910565 A very nice alternation of chant and polyphony, by the Ensemble Venance Fortunat. The English translation is that of Alan Gordon McDougall (1896-1965). 1. Custodes hominum psallimus angelos, Naturae fragili quos Pater addidit Coelestis comites, insidiantibus Ne succumberet hostibus. Angel-guardians of men, spirits and powers we sing, Whom our Father hath sent, aids to our weakly frame, 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/09/the-priests-second-prayer-for-holy.htmlLost in Translation seriesMichael Foleynoreply@blogger.com (Michael P. Foley)Fri, 2 Oct 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-333913633017311707 Lost in Translation #170 After praying the Domine Jesu Christe, the priest prays: Perceptio Corporis tui, Domine Jesu Christe, quod ego indignus sumere praesumo, non mihi proveniat in judicium et condemnationem: sed pro tua pietate prosit mihi ad tutamentum mentis et corporis, et ad medelam percipiendam: Qui vivis et regnas cum Deo Patre in unitate Spiritus Sancti Deus, per omnia saecula 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/the-book-of-hours-of-marguerite-of.htmlBooks of HoursLittle Office of the Blessed Virgin MaryMedieval Artnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 1 Oct 2026 16:00:06 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-9016235794424787417A good way to start the Marian month of October is by enjoying this particularly glorious Book of Hours, since the principal text in any such book is always the Little Office of the Virgin Mary. This particular example was made around 1430 for Marguerite, a daughter of Louis I, duke of Orleans, born in 1406, who was countess of Vertus and Etampes from 1420 until her death in 1466. The repertoire 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/10/the-mystery-of-orthodox-liturgy-new.htmlByzantine Liturgynoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 1 Oct 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7766470451206713465In February, we shared news of the publication of a handbook for the Byzantine Rite, entitled “The Divine Services of the Orthodox Church with Commentary”, from St Symeon of Thessalonica Press, a catechetical resource designed to guide both clergy and laity more deeply into the Orthodox liturgical cycle. St Symeon Press has recently released another very useful catechetical resource, a video 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/09/st-jeromes-lion.htmlfeastsSt Jeromenoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:15:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-311722172581343029 There are very few episodes of what we might call a legendary character attached to the figure of St Jerome, at least in part because we have so much authentic information about his life from his own incredibly prolific pen. The Golden Legend gives only one such story in its account of him, which explains why a lion became his most distinctive attribute in art. “One evening, when Jerome was 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/09/photos-of-missale-romanum-printed-in.htmlart of the bookMissale RomanumPeter Kwasniewskiprintingnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Wed, 30 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8237945447079018227As mentioned last week, my visit to Milwaukee gave me the opportunity to view several rare books in a friend's collection. Today I will share some photos of a Missale Romanum printed in Antwerp in 1616; brief commentary will be offered in the captions. Although not in order, let's begin with the Canon page:The viewer will see wormholes present throughout.The title pageFirst Sunday of AdventThe 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/09/st-michael-in-apocrypha.htmlBibleRequiem MassSt. Michaelnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7190234465369194041 The Archangel Michael is mentioned three times in the book of Daniel, once in the Apocalypse, and once in the Epistle of St Jude, and these are all of his Biblical appearances. Both New Testament authors introduce him quite abruptly, taking it for granted that their readers already know who he is. “And there was a great battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon…” (Apoc. 12,0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/09/musica-domestica-by-andrew-goldstein.htmlAndrew GoldsteinDavid ClaytonDomestic ChurchMusica DomesticaThe Scala FoundationThe Vigil Projectnoreply@blogger.com (David Clayton)Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-424102028257066204A two-volume songbook for Catholic families, with a pointed psalter, sacred songs and chants, and folk songs following the liturgical year, published by Word on Fire PublicationsTwo years ago I gave a talk to a gathering of parents and faculty of a classical academy in South Bend, Indiana. I spoke of my vision of families praying the psalms and singing songs together, with their neighbors, before0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/09/music-for-vespers-of-st-michael.htmlAngelsPalestrinaSt. MichaelVespersVictorianoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2437655026246800774 When Pope Urban VIII had the hymns of the Roman Breviary revised in a more classicizing style, few were altered as completely as the hymn for Vespers of St Michael. The original version, traditionally attributed to Blessed Rabanus Maurus (ca. 780-856) was written in four stanzas of six lines, in a trochaic meter (alternating long and short syllables, with one syllable missing at the end of each 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/09/the-eighteenth-sunday-after-pentecost.htmlIntroitTime after Pentecostnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:15:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2128843881853032238Give peace, o Lord, to those who wait for Thee, that Thy prophets may be found true: hear the prayers of Thy servant, and of Thy people Israel. Ps. 121 I rejoiced in what was said to me, ‘We will go unto the house of the Lord.’ Glory be... Give peace, o Lord... (The introit of the 18th Sunday after Pentecost.)Introitus Da pacem, Dómine, sustinéntibus te, ut prophétae tui fidéles inveniantur: 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/09/our-ladys-saturday.htmlBlessed Virgin Marynoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7416918373214273649Since today we celebrate the Saturday Office of Our Lady, here is a polyptych representing Her coronation as the Queen of Heaven, painted in the 1390s by the Florentine artist Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni (active ca. 1369-1415), a splendid example of the richly decorative style known as the International Gothic. (Click the image to enlarge it.)This was originally made for a chapel dedicated to0