noreply@blogger.com (Richard Chonak)Sun, 9 Aug 2026 08:10:24 -0400Blogger http://www.blogger.com18001125https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/en-usnonoreply@blogger.comhttps://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/st-romanus-martyr.htmlfeastsMartyrssaintsnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sun, 9 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-78531523250535760In 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/the-church-of-ss-peter-and-paul-in.htmlNicola de' GrandiRomanesquenoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sat, 8 Aug 2026 08:45:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-1483759567411700577Last 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/uncomfortable-comparisons-fr-barthe-on.htmlBook NoticesClaude BartheComparative LiturgicsOs Justi PressSacramentsnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Fri, 7 Aug 2026 15:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-5174541118105043965In 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/review-of-cosima-clara-gillhammers.htmlMichael Foleynoreply@blogger.com (Michael P. Foley)Fri, 7 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-609149955271542075In 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/solar-horarium-organ-improvisation.htmlCatholic Institute of Sacred MusicSquare Notes Sacred Music Podcastnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Thu, 6 Aug 2026 16:50:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-4928637963561206145As 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 appreciator0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/raphaels-transfiguration-of-christ.htmlByzantine LiturgyLiturgical HistoryRaphaelRenaissanceSacred ArtTransfigurationnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 6 Aug 2026 07:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7357717249899327697 When Raphael was commissioned to paint the Transfiguration of Christ in 1515, the feast commemorating this event in the Lord’s life was still a new one in much of Western Europe. Although it had been kept in some places much earlier, it was given to the universal Church only in the reign of Pope Callixtus III (1455-58), in thanksgiving for the Christian victory against the Turks at the siege of 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/communion-in-hand-ancient-norm-humanist.htmlChurch FathersReception of Holy CommunionZsolt Orbánnoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Wed, 5 Aug 2026 07:30:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6793863118488965784NLM is once again grateful to Zsolt Orbán for sharing the fruits of his extensive research with us. Reflecting on the “evolution” of Eucharistic reverence, Pope Benedict XVI noted,Here again we know that until the ninth century Communion was received in the hand, standing. That does not of course mean that it should always be so. For what is fine, sublime, about the Church is that she is growing0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/the-sequence-of-st-dominic.htmlDominican RiteSequencesnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Tue, 4 Aug 2026 08:15:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-336274580835378659For the feast of St Dominic, here is a very nice recording of In caelesti hierarchia, the Sequence for his Mass in the Dominican Missal. Dominic was, of course, the very first Saint of his order to be canonized; this was done in 1234 by Pope Gregory IX (1227-41), who had known him personally, and declared that he no more doubted his sanctity than he did that of Saints Peter and Paul. The author 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/the-finding-of-st-stephen-first-martyr.htmlbreviaryfeastsLiturgical HistoryMedieval LiturgyProtestantismRelicssaintsSt Augustinenoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Mon, 3 Aug 2026 07:15:02 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-6162904618595624970 Today is the feast of the Finding of St Stephen the First Martyr. This took place in the year 415, when the teacher of St Paul, Gamaliel, who is named twice in the Acts of the Apostles (5, 34-40 and 22, 3) appeared in a vision to a priest of Jerusalem named Lucian, on three successive Fridays, and named the location of the burial. Gamaliel further revealed that he himself had taken charge of 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/st-alphonsus-on-need-for-reverence-in.htmlLiturgical ReformsaintsSt Alphonsus Liguorinoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sun, 2 Aug 2026 07:45:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-75109725247126181 When he was appointed bishop of the small town of St Agata dei Goti in 1762, St Alphonsus de’ Liguori (OF feast day August 1, EF August 2) began his episcopal ministry by sending missioners out to every corner of diocese. He “recommended two things only to these missioners, simplicity in the pulpit, charity in the confessional, and after hearing one of the priests neglect his advice he said to 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/liturgical-notes-on-feast-of-st-peters.htmlByzantine LiturgyfeastsLiturgical ReformRelicsRoman BasilicasSs Peter and Paulnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sat, 1 Aug 2026 13:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-819106985220123140 The Latin name of today’s feast in the Tridentine Missal and Breviary is “Sancti Petri ad Vincula”, which is translated literally as “the feast of St Peter at the chains”, not “the feast of St Peter’s chains” or “of St Peter in chains.” This title is found in the oldest liturgical books which attest to it, and even earlier, in the list of the station churches given by the lectionary of Wurzburg,0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/08/nlms-twenty-first-anniversary.htmlNLM Anniversarynoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Sat, 1 Aug 2026 09:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2504441875908107140Today is the twenty-first anniversary of the New Liturgical Movement, and as always, we cannot let the day pass without a word of thanks to our founder Shawn Tribe for his nearly eight years of dedication to the site, to our long-time contributor Jeffrey Tucker, who succeeded Shawn as editor, to our publisher, Fr Robert Pasley, to our parent organization, the Church Music Association of America, 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/a-drinking-song-in-honor-of-st-germanus.htmlfeastsHilaire BellocHumoursaintsnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-885475233944554253 Most places which use the Roman Rite keep today as the feast of St Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, who died on July 31, 1556. But in the Middle Ages, July 31st was kept in France, England and some other places (although not at Rome) as the feast of St Germanus of Auxerre; Ignatius himself would have celebrated this feast during his years as a student in Paris, along with the 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/a-double-scandal-of-particularity.htmlJerusalemLost in Translation seriesMichael FoleyTisha B’avnoreply@blogger.com (Michael P. Foley)Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2380032216563831716Readers of NLM will be familiar with the concept of the scandal of particularity and how it may be applied to liturgical considerations, namely:The Incarnation is scandalously particular. The universal Logos takes flesh from a particular maiden at a particular time in a particular place to become the person Jesus of Nazareth. God is also scandalously particular in His love for us, not only 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/the-church-of-ss-peter-and-paul-in.htmlCounter-ReformationMedieval ArtNicola de' Grandinoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:36:58 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7609879105822844537Our Ambrosian expert Nicola de’ Grandi recently visited the town of Biasca, about 79 miles to the north of Milan in the Swiss canton of Ticino. There are three valleys in the area known as the Ambrosian valleys, which were under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the archbishop of Milan since at least the sixth century, and consequently celebrated the Ambrosian Rite. Many churches in the area 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/the-antipope-venerated-as-saint.htmlBaroniusfeastsLiturgical ReformMartyrologyRelicssaintsnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-7976656399125586970 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/reader-appeal-origins-of-terminology.htmlPeter Kwasniewskinoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-1501122659011779455If 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/introducing-aidan-harts-consultancy.htmlAidan HartDavid ClaytonKALOS Liturgical Designnoreply@blogger.com (David Clayton)Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-2971739746157652411Serving 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/a-calendar-wheel-in-lyon-cathedral.htmlcalendarnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:00:02 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-1395312197459961508A 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/a-richer-table.htmlHumourLectionarynoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-5924599000699806169That 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/new-initiative-cmaa-groups.htmlCMAACMAA Colloquiumnoreply@blogger.com (Father Robert C Pasley)Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8884264689156842468The 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/the-incarnation-passion-and-eucharist.htmlBiblical commentariesbook announcementsEucharistic TheologymysticismOs Justi PressPeter KwasniewskiSong of SongsTimothy Kellynoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-672157478500379358If 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/two-recent-articles-on-sacred-music.htmlChristopher JasperGregorian ChantSacred Musicsilencenoreply@blogger.com (Peter Kwasniewski)Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-4512804492465171176Readers 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/the-fraction-and-commingling.htmlLost in Translation seriesMichael Foleynoreply@blogger.com (Michael P. Foley)Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:00:00 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-4774118239705139322Lost 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 0https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2026/07/notes-on-slavonic-feast-of-saint-elias.htmlGlagoliticnoreply@blogger.com (Gregory DiPippo)Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:00:33 -0400tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-4191968946729998758Many 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 0