tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-150187272024-03-19T04:48:33.934-04:00New Liturgical MovementRichard Chonakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02327763839418228519noreply@blogger.comBlogger16769120tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-21308821065340687002024-03-18T08:00:00.111-04:002024-03-18T10:56:24.474-04:00The Cutting Edge: Priest Posts 1966 Video as Response to “Mass of the Ages”Episode 3 of The Mass of the Ages, “Guardians of Tradition,” was premiered at the Pickwick Theater in Chicago on March 9, to immense acclaim. (You can read my initial thoughts about it here.) It is one of the finest films yet produced about the traditionalist movement, showing the diverse international appeal of the traditional rites across races, classes, cultures, countries. The film, Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-80802078225943564082024-03-17T08:00:00.013-04:002024-03-18T11:33:44.631-04:00Passiontide in Other Western RitesTwo years ago, I wrote an article about the Saturday of the Fourth Week of Lent, the last day before Passiontide begins, in which I noted that the custom of joining the last two weeks of Lent as a liturgical period distinct from the rest of the season is unique to the Roman Rite, and that “the specific … character of this period is older than its formal nomenclature.” Even though Passion Sunday Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-45732134231246939162024-03-16T16:45:00.001-04:002024-03-16T16:45:30.873-04:00Photopost Request: Passiontide Veils 2024Our next photopost series will be of your churches with the Crosses, statues and paintings veiled for Passiontide. Please send your pictures to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org for inclusion; remember to give us the name and location of the church, and always feel free to add any other information you think important. It’s not a bad idea to include a shot or two of the church before the veils Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-60148471095394769292024-03-16T10:15:00.005-04:002024-03-16T10:50:45.335-04:00Roman Pilgrims at the Station Churches 2024 (Part 3)In the eleven years we have run this series, we have had a number of interruptions, when, for one reason or another, our Roman pilgrim friends were unable to make it to the stational churches. So this year we lost the second half of the second week of Lent, and the beginning of the third, to Agnese having a serious cold, work commitments, and the ever-popular Roman public transport strike. (MaybeGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-91708038292958127282024-03-15T07:00:00.001-04:002024-03-15T07:05:20.550-04:00The Raising of Lazarus in the Liturgy of Lent
Until the first part of the eighth century, the Thursdays of Lent were “aliturgical” days in the Roman Rite, days on which no ferial Mass was celebrated. A similar custom prevails to this day in the Ambrosian and Byzantine Rites, the former abstaining from the Eucharistic Sacrifice on all the Fridays in Lent, the latter on all the weekdays. I have described in another article why Pope St GregoryGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-58695746727482344292024-03-14T17:00:00.001-04:002024-03-14T17:21:31.984-04:00“Let My Prayer Rise as Incense” by Dmitry Bortniansky - Byzantine Music for Lent
In the Byzantine Rite, the Divine Liturgy is not celebrated on the weekdays of Lent, but only on Saturdays and Sundays; an exception is made for the feast of the Annunciation. Therefore, at the Divine Liturgy on Sundays, extra loaves of bread are consecrated, and reserved for the rest of the week. On Wednesdays and Fridays, a service known as the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts is held, in Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8786397238253924412024-03-14T09:00:00.086-04:002024-03-14T09:00:00.150-04:00The Votive Office of St Thomas Aquinas in the Dominican RiteLost in Translation #98Before Pope St. Pius X’s reform of the breviary, enacted by his 1911 apostolic constitution Divino Afflatu, the Dominicans enjoyed the privilege of celebrating all their canonized Saints with an octave. Today is the old octave day of St Thomas Aquinas (March 14), but because the octave Mass and Office are not that different from the festal Mass and Office (here and Michael P. Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649905848645336033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-64403210377466626672024-03-13T17:19:00.003-04:002024-03-14T07:37:03.195-04:00The Root of the “Liturgical War”: Guest Essay by Mr Kevin TierneyWe are extremely grateful to Mr Kevin Tierney for his permission to republish this very insightful essay, which appeared yesterday on his Substack. He is also on Twitter at https://twitter.com/CatholicSmarkBack when he was the head for the Congregation of Divine Worship, Cardinal Robert Sarah thought long and hard about the role the liturgy played in forming Catholics. He spent time not onlyGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-14090671830418285752024-03-13T12:22:00.007-04:002024-03-13T12:48:17.693-04:00The Anniversary of the Founding of the Church in Milan
According to an old Ambrosian tradition, March 13 of the year 51 was the date on which the church was founded in Milan, when the Apostle St Barnabas baptized the first Christians of the city anciently called Mediolanum. The story tells that as a challenge to the local Druids, who were still active in the areas outside the city, he planted a cross in the middle of a magic circle which they used Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-81185214679511579702024-03-13T08:00:00.000-04:002024-03-13T08:00:00.132-04:00The Man Born Blind in the Liturgy of Lent
From very ancient times, the Church has read the Gospel of the Man Born Blind, John 9, 1-38, as a symbol of the rituals of baptism. Christ anointed the blind man’s eyes with mud made of His saliva, and then told him to wash in the pool of Siloam; this was naturally associated with the ritual by which the catechumens were anointed before the washing of their sins in the baptismal font. St Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-61963005831448075562024-03-12T18:00:00.004-04:002024-03-12T18:07:20.672-04:00Following the Roman Station Churches in ChicagoThe Canons Regular of St John Cantius, based in Chicago, Illinois, have a well-deserved reputation for cultivating excellence in the liturgy, and we have gladly featured them many times here on NLM. They were recently kind enough to share with us some information about their way of keeping the Roman tradition of the Lenten station churches, more than 4,800 miles away from the Eternal City.The Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-21987161436832268382024-03-12T08:10:00.009-04:002024-03-12T08:13:51.291-04:00A Proper Hymn for St Gregory the Great The revised breviary issued by St Pius V in 1568 derives from the tradition which the Papal curia followed in the high Middle Ages, formally codified at the beginning of the 13th century in a document known as the Ordinal of Pope Innocent III (1198-1216). As I have noted several times, this tradition was in many ways very conservative, much more so than most other Uses of the Roman Rite, and Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-42773718314412796992024-03-11T08:00:00.022-04:002024-03-11T08:00:00.249-04:00Parce Domine vs. “Hold Us in Your Mercy”: What’s the Difference?The following is an edited and expanded version of observations shared with me by Mr William Weicher, who gave me permission to develop them here for the benefit of NLM readers.—PAK A couple of years ago, I came across Cristóbal de Morales’ Parce Mihi, Domine. The discovery of this piece happened to coincide with Passion Week, and with a very sad death of a young man in my parish. So for many Peter Kwasniewskihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02068005370670549612noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-58654579348059297322024-03-10T15:00:00.003-04:002024-03-10T15:05:45.564-04:00Durandus on Laetare SundayThe fourth Sunday of Lent treats of the heavenly Jerusalem, and because we come into that land on the day on which the sons of Israel came into the Promised Land … therefore Exodus is now read (at Matins, chapter 3, 1-15) where the Lord says “I have seen the affliction of my people in Egypt, and I have gone down to deliver them from the hands of the Egyptians.” And just as the Lord liberated his Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-56656871984289540842024-03-10T08:00:00.000-04:002024-03-10T08:00:00.131-04:00The Feast of the Forty Martyrs
The Forty Martyrs were a group of soldiers from the Roman Twelfth Legion, who died for the Faith at Sebaste in Armenia in the year 320. This was seven years after the Edict of Milan and the Peace granted to the Church by Constantine, whose brother-in-law Licinius at that point ruled in the East, and after a period of tolerance, renewed the persecution of Christians. When the Forty had been Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-44414697625097692192024-03-09T16:00:00.083-05:002024-03-09T16:33:57.456-05:00St Frances of RomeMarch 9th is the feast of St Frances of Rome, who died on this day in the year 1440. She was born into a wealthy and noble Roman family in 1384, and felt called to the religious life at a very young age, but yielding to her parents’ wishes, agreed to be married to a young nobleman named Lorenzo Ponziano when she was only thirteen. Taking up residence in her in-laws’ palazzo, she soon discovered aGregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-8508771274367257782024-03-09T07:15:00.000-05:002024-03-09T07:15:00.309-05:00An Early Medieval Biblical Narrative - The Story of Susanna Carved in a Crystal
Saturday of the Third Week of Lent is the day on which the Roman Rite traditionally reads the longest epistle of the year, the story of Susanna in the thirteenth chaper of the book of Daniel; I have previously written on the history of this passage’s liturgical use.
One of the most interesting artistic representations of this story is a carved piece of rock-crystal, made for King Lothair II, a Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-5581899490293879132024-03-08T16:00:00.002-05:002024-03-08T16:23:22.836-05:00Concilium’s Attack on Confession (Part 2): Guilt as a Social ConstructThis is second part of an article which Mr Phillip Campbell, author of the blog Unam Sanctam Catholicam, has very kindly shared with us, his investigation into what the “progressive” theological journal Consilium was saying about reform of the sacrament of Confession in the years which immediately followed the most recent ecumenical council. The first part was published on Shrove Tuesday.The Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-70779581108402898102024-03-08T07:15:00.001-05:002024-03-08T09:12:05.882-05:00Lauds and II Vespers of St. Thomas Aquinas in the Dominican RiteSt. Thomas, flanked by Plato and Aristotle, triumphs over Averroes. Benozzo Gozzoli, 1471Lost in Translation #97
On Wednesday, we examined the Dominican Rite’s I Vespers for the feast of St. Thomas Aquinas; today, we turn to the Office of Lauds and II Vespers.LaudsThe Office of Lauds has an antiphon for each of the five psalms (which in this case are the same in the Dominican and Roman BreviariesMichael P. Foleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02649905848645336033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15018727.post-27543221101294977742024-03-07T16:00:00.000-05:002024-03-07T16:00:00.129-05:00The Feast of St Thomas Aquinas 2024
Today is the feast of St Thomas Aquinas, who died on this day in the year 1274 at the Cistercian Abbey of Fossanova, while traveling to attend the Second General Council of Lyons. (Thomas was born at the castle of Roccasecca in 1225; one of my Latin teachers, the great Fr Reginald Foster, was fond of pointing out that Thomas was born on Dry Rock, and died in New Ditch.) On the General Calendar Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0