Rorate Mass Photopost 2023 (Part 6)

With the last of our annual Rorate Mass and Advent photoposts, I am very pleased to say that we have tied last year’s record for this series as far as the number of posts goes, but slightly exceeded it in the number of photos, at just over 280, coming from churches in 18 American states and 12 other countries, with many duplicates (four Canadian provinces, three locations each in England and Italy, etc.) We can all add to our other reasons for Christmas cheer the knowledge that the slow but steady work of recovering our Catholic liturgical tradition continues – feliciter!

In the meantime, there is still plenty of time to send photos of your various Christmas liturgies to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org; remember to include the name and location of the church, and any other information you think worth noting. Christus natus est - venite, adoremus!

Holy Spirit and Annunciation Church – Premonstratensian Abbey of Gödöllő, Hungary

Photos by Domonkos Orban-Katona

Tradition will always be for the young!

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Rorate Mass and Gaudete Sunday Photopost 2023 (Part 5)

On the third day of Christmas, we still haven’t finished with the huge number of your Rorate Mass and Gaudete Sunday contributions, which is a great problem to have, and a good sign of the steady recovery of our authentic Catholic liturgical traditions. So there will be one final post in this series, which will go up tomorrow.

In the meantime, we already have enough photos of your Christmas liturgies to make at least two posts, but there is always room for more, so please send yours in to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org, and remember to include the name and location of the church, and any other information you think important. Christus natus est nobis: venite, adoremus!   

Cathedral of the Holy Rosary – Vancouver, British Columbia

Gaudete Sunday

Rorate Mass

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Rorate Mass and Gaudete Sunday Photopost 2023 (Part 4)

We are now at the fourth post in our Advent photopost series, but still not haven’t finished – Deo gratias! There will be at least one more, but there is always room and time for more, so please send in yours to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org. Remember to include the name and location of the church, and remember that you are doing great work in preserving our authentic liturgical heritage, and evangelizing through beauty!

The Assumption and St Charles (Karlov) – Prague, Czech Republic

St Bernard’s Abbey – Cullman, Alabama

Tradition will always be for the young.

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Rorate Mass and Gaudete Sunday Photopost 2023 (Part 3)

We continue with your photos of Advent liturgies, especially Rorate Masses; in this post, we also have a bit of the Ambrosian Rite, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, and some very nice rose-colored Gaudete Sunday vestments. The number of contributions has been truly incredible, and there will be at least two more posts in this series, but there is always room and time for more, so please feel free to send in yours to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org. Remember to include the name and location of the church, and remember that you are doing great work in preserving our authentic liturgical heritage, and evangelizing through beauty!  

Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe – LaCrosse, Wisconsin

Solemn Rorate Mass, celebrated in the presence of His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke, who founded the shrine while he was bishop of LaCrosse (1994-2003).  

St Benedict – Chesapeake, Maryland (FSSP)

Most Precious Blood of Jesus – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ICRSP)

Photos by one of our favorite photographers, Mrs Allison Girone.

Tradition will always be for the young!

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Rorate Mass Photopost 2023 (Part 2)

The response to our photopost request for Rorate Masses has been overwhelming, and there will definitely be at least two more posts in this series... not to mention the fact that Gaudete Sunday was only yesterday, so hopefully, photos of rose-colored vestments will be arriving soon. There is always room and time for more, so please feel free to send in photos of any and all of your Advent liturgies to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org; don’t forget to include the name and location of the church, and any other information you think important.

In this post, we also have Spanish blue vestments for Immaculate Conception, and pictures of a Mass in the Ordinariate Rite, all good signs of the steady recovery of our authentic Catholic liturgical traditions. The good work of evangelizing through beauty continues apace!

Nuestra Señora del Pilar – Guadalajara, Mexico (FSSP)

Tradition will always be for the young!

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Rorate Mass Photopost 2023 (Part 1)

Gaudete Sunday is still three days away, but our annual Advent photopost series is already off to a great start with Rorate Masses and the feast of the Immaculate Conception. We also begin with a very beautiful iconostas in a church in Greece. Be sure to have your cameras ready for Sunday, and send pictures of your rose-colored vestments in to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org; remember to include the name and location of the church, and any other information you think important. Regem venturum Dominum, venite, adoremus! 

Church of St Spyridion – Kastellorizo, Greece

Photos courtesy of Fr Nikodemos Sklepas, taken on Monday evening, before Vespers of the church’s patronal feast day. St Spyridion was bishop of Trimythos on the island of Cyprus, and one of the fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, held at Nicaea in 325.

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Photopost Reminder for December: Tradition Will Always Be for the Young

This year, Christmas being on a Monday, Advent is the shortest it can be (three weeks and one day), and we are already at the end of the first week, so I thought it would be a good idea to put out a distant-early-warning photopost request. As we do every year, we will have a photopost series for Rorate Masses, which will also include photos of Gaudete Sunday liturgies, yesterday’s feast of the Immaculate Conception, and anything else people care to share with us. Of course, we welcome photos of the EF, the OF, the Ordinariate Rite, the Eastern liturgies etc., as well as pictures of other services such as Vespers and processions. Please send them to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org, and remember to include the name and location of the church, and any other information which you think important.

Last year, we reached a record-breaking six posts in this series, with over 270 photos from churches in 19 American states and 11 other countries (with several duplicates: three Canadian provinces, three locations in England etc.) By the time the last of them went up on December 29th, it had been announced that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI was in his final illness, and he died two days later. I mention this first and foremost as a reminder to pray for his eternal repose, and to thank God for all the benefits that accrued to the Church from his great pastoral wisdom.

But I also mention it because two days ago, a student senator at a Catholic university told a cardinal that the question he was asked most often by his fellow students is “Why is there no traditional Latin Mass on campus?”, and asked the cardinal for advice on how he ought to respond. That very day being His Eminence’s own 76th birthday, his response was that the young people need to get with the times, and that “tradition dies a slow death, sometimes a bloody death.” The rest of his response made no mention of Pope Benedict at all, much less of any of the reasons why he chose to issue Summorum Pontificum, after decades of serious consideration of the state of the liturgy, and the importance of preserving continuity with our history, and the inestimable treasures of the Roman liturgical patrimony.

Let’s see what we can do to show the world that tradition is not dying, and will always be for the young!

From the first post in last year’s Advent series: the feast of the Immaculate Conception at the church of the Annunciation in Imperia, Italy.

From the second post: Mass in the Dominican Rite on the feast of St Lucy, celebrated more rorante by our long-time contributor Fr Lawrence Lew O.P. at Our Lady of the Rosary and St Dominic in London, England.

From the third post: Rorate Mass at the church of St Paul in Birkirkara, Malta.

From the fourth post: a procession in honor of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the Premonstratensian Abbey of St Michael in Silverado, California.

From the fifth post: Vespers of Gaudete Sunday at the Church of the Assumption in Nashville, Tennessee.

From the sixth post: Rorate Mass at the Church of St Peter in Waco, Texas.

Rorate Mass Photopost 2022 (Part 6)

Before we move on to photos of your Christmas liturgies, here is one last set of Rorate Masses, a record-breaking sixth post in this annual series. This brings us to over 270 photos, from churches in 19 American states and 11 other countries, with several duplicates (three Canadian provinces, three locations in England etc.) We can all add to our other reasons for Christmas cheer the knowledge that the slow but steady work of recovering our Catholic liturgical tradition continues! 

We must also remember to pray for our beloved Pope Emeritus Benedictus XVI, to whose incomparable pastoral wisdom and good example this recovery is due in no small measure.

St Patrick Oratory – Waterbury, Connecticut (ICRSP)

Courtesy of the Society of St Hugh of Cluny 

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Gaudete Sunday and Rorate Mass Photopost 2022 (Part 5)

Even with our fifth Gaudete Sunday and Rorate Mass photopost of this year, we still aren’t finished; the record-breaking sixth post will appear shortly after Christmas. Once again, our heartfelt thanks to everyone who sent these in, and don’t forget to have your cameras ready for Christmas and the following feasts. We wish you all a most blessed and peaceful Christmas Eve - today you shall know that the Lord will come, and in the morning, you shall see His glory.

Church of the Assumption – Nashville, Tennessee

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Rorate Mass Photopost 2022 (Part 4)

For this installation of our latest photopost series, I have left Gaudete Sunday out of the title, since it consists entirely of Rorate Masses (it’s wonderful to see how popular this custom has become in recent years!), and one procession for Our Lady of Guadalupe. We still have over a dozen more contributions left to process, so if you haven’t seen yours yet, know that they will be published soon. In any case, there’s always room for more, so if you’d like to share your photos of any liturgies celebrated during Advent, send them in to photopost@newliturgicalmovement.org, and remember to include the name and location of the church. Also, keep your cameras ready for Christmas - the Lord is now nigh, come let us worship, and evangelize through beauty!

St John the Beloved – McLean, Virginia

Mass of Ember Wednesday celebrated more rorante; courtesy of the Arlington Latin Mass Society

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