Liturgical and Spiritual Resources on New Online Platform

Readers may have noticed that I've been absent from NLM the past few months. That's only temporary. The explanation is simple enough: I've been totally absorbed, along with about a dozen other people, in the creation of Pelican+, a comprehensive traditional Catholic digital platform that combines a writers' forum (e.g., it's the new home of Tradition & Sanity where I publish most of my online writing), a podcast network, ebook, audiobook, and music libraries, a vault of classic prayers, family-friendly programs, documentaries, and more. All designed to be orthodox and beautiful, without any advertising, secular agendas, or hidden algorithms driving it.

Of particular interests to NLM readers, Pelican+ offers users an array of liturgical and spiritual resources to explore. I'll share some screen shots below.

The Prayer App is the section of most obvious relevance (click on any image to enlarge — bearing in mind that on the Pelican+ app itself, all of these pages would be dynamic, allowing you to click on any of the buttons):

The categories are Prayers to Our Lord (the options go further down, but I'm limited in how much I can show in one picture):

Eucharistic prayers:

Prayers for Mass:

Prayers to Our Lady (there are a lot of these, including many versions of the Rosary):

For instance, there's the Angelus chanted in Latin...

...and the Rosary chanted in Latin (think of how useful this would be to pass the time in a long commute to the Sunday TLM, meanwhile teaching psalm tones and antiphons!):

Prayers to the (other) Saints:

General Prayers:

Then, a category I would especially like to talk about, "Daily Routine":

Here, one finds the daily Propers from the Roman Missal, in Latin/English text form and read aloud in English translation, both 1962 and pre-1955:

The text:

The audio version:

I think readers will be quite pleased to hear that Dom Prosper Guéranger's Liturgical Year is finally being put into a good audio version (under the lovely title "Preserving the Fire"), which, of course, will take a long time to finish, but a good start's been made with Sundays and major feasts:

A Patristic Sermon series is keyed, as always, to the traditional Roman Rite:

The traditional Roman Martyrology is available daily in audio, to remind you that, however bad things are, they are not usually that bad, in comparison to what these martyrs had to endure:

Traditional Roman Prime and Compline, and Compline from the Little Office (with more of the Divine Office to come):

It goes without saying that all of these categories are growing over time, as each week adds new content, well organized for ease of finding.

The Four Gospels (Douay-Rheims) are available as audiobooks, and the rest of the Bible will be recorded, book by book, in due course:

All 14 albums released by the Benedictines of Mary in Gower, featuring chant and polyphony (not all shown in this image) are available for streaming, and a sizable chant library is coming soon.

One of our key principles is to take advantage of the wider societal move toward audio to help recover a "pre-modern" oral culture of listening to and memorizing the best of our patrimony of prayers.

Beyond those offerings, there will always be podcasts and articles that drill into this or that aspect of our liturgical tradition. Thus, for instance, I joined Fr. Lovell for a conversation on the pre-55 Roman Rite:

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For a brief (7-minute) video introduction to Pelican+ as a whole, I recommend watching this:

Pelican+ is offering free 7-day trials where you will enjoy access to all the content and can find out for yourself what the buzz is about.

Gift vouchers are also available for the holyday season.