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The Dominican Sequence for the Dedication of a Church 3:15 AM (19 hours ago)

In the Dominican Rite, today is the collective feast of the dedication of all of the Order’s consecrated churches. This is a fairly new custom, instituted when the Dominican calendar was revised in the wake of St Pius X’s breviary reform; prior to that, each such church kept its own dedication feast. In the post-Conciliar rite, the Dominicans have reverted to the older custom, but the feast on

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The Feast of St Hilarion the Abbot 21 Oct 9:00 AM (yesterday, 9:00 am)

St Hilarion was born in the last decade of the 3rd century to a pagan family, near Gaza in the Roman province of Palestine. He became a Christian when he was sent as a youth to study in Alexandria, which was of course not just a patriarchate, but one of the early Church’s major intellectual centers. Early on in his life as a Christian, he visited St Anthony in the desert, where he conceived a

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Signs of Hope in Cuba: the Iconography of José Garcia Cortés 21 Oct 3:00 AM (yesterday, 3:00 am)

A talented artist’s journey from atheist misery to joy in the Faith, and the discovery of his personal vocation, When my wife Margarita and I checked into the Orthodox Academy of Crete this past August for an iconography workshop taught by Greek master iconographer George Kordis of Writing-the-Light (a full training in iconography offering classes in the US and Europe), Margarita noticed on

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The Vesper Hymn of St John Cantius 20 Oct 4:00 AM (2 days ago)

Today is the feast of St John Cantius (1390-1473), a priest of the diocese of Krakow, Poland, who spent most of his life as a professor at the Krakow Academy, which is now known as the Jagiellonian University, and counts the astronomer Copernicus and Pope St John Paul II among its other illustrious alumni. The revised Butler’s Lives of the Saints recounts two beautiful traditions of the

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The Feast of the Dedication of Milan Cathedral 19 Oct 4:00 AM (3 days ago)

This article is mostly the work of our Ambrosian writer Nicola de’ Grandi; I translated it from Italian, and added the parts about the Ambrosian arrangement of the Sundays after Pentecost. In the Ambrosian Rite, there are only fifteen Sundays formally named “after Pentecost”, and if Pentecost is very late, as few as eleven may be actually celebrated. The series is interrupted by the Sundays “

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Rosary in Chant, Second and Expanded Edition 18 Oct 9:19 AM (4 days ago)

Back in November 2023, I announced a wonderful new resource: a booklet, Sanctissimum Rosarium in Cantu, that sets the Latin prayers of the Rosary to Gregorian chant psalm tones, in order to make the chanting of it very easy to do. All that would be needed for a chanted Rosary—the Apostles’ Creed, the announcing of the mysteries, the Pater Noster, the Ave Maria, the Gloria Patri, the Salve

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The Feast of St Luke the Evangelist 18 Oct 3:00 AM (4 days ago)

Although Ss Mark and Luke are given the title “Evangelist” in the liturgy, but are not called “Apostles”, the former is really a subcategory of the latter, and the liturgical texts of their feasts do not differ significantly from those of the other Apostles. One distinguishing feature of St Luke’s feast is that it is not kept with a vigil on the day before, since vigils were reserved for martyrs

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A Decorated Psalter of the 14th Century 17 Oct 12:46 PM (5 days ago)

Here is another nice little discovery from the website of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, a decorated psalter made in Italy in the 14th century. (Département des Manuscrits, Latin 772) In addition to the large illuminated letters, it contains ten pages on which an episode of Our Lord’s life is paralleled with a story from the Old Testament. The images are very detailed and colorful, and

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The Prayer Unde et memores 17 Oct 3:00 AM (5 days ago)

Lost in Translation #144After the prayers of consecration, the priest prays: Unde et mémores, Dómine, nos servi tui, sed et plebs tua sancta, ejusdem Christi Filii tui, Dómini nostri, tam beátae passiónis, nec non et ab ínferis resurrectiónis, sed et in caelos gloriósae ascensiónis: offérimus praeclárae majestáti tuae de tuis donis ac datis hostiam puram, hostiam sanctam, hostiam immaculátam,

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The Office of the Dead in the Dominican Liturgy: Lecture by Fr. Innocent Smith OP, Nov. 8 16 Oct 12:00 PM (6 days ago)

The 4th Season of the Catholic Institute of Sacred Music’s Public Lecture and Concerts Series continues with:The Office of the Dead in the Dominican LiturgyLecture by Fr Innocent SmithDate: Saturday, November 8thTime: 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern)Location: Online via ZoomTickets: Free, or suggested donation of $20RSVP here.From the time of their foundation in the 13th century, Dominican friars

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The Abbey and Library of San Gall in Switzerland 16 Oct 6:00 AM (6 days ago)

Today is the feast of St Gall (‘Gallus’ in Latin, ‘Gallen’ in German), a disciple of the great monastic founder of the later 6th and early 7th century, St Columban. He was born in Ireland, educated under Columban at the abbey of Bangor, and accompanied his teacher to the continent, where he assisted him in the founding of the important abbeys at Annegray and Luxeuil. From there, they made their

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The Proper Hymns of St Theresa of Avila 15 Oct 2:00 PM (7 days ago)

St Theresa of Avila, whose feast we keep today, the anniversary of her death in 1582, was canonized on March 12, 1622, alongside Ss Philip Neri, Ignatius of Loyola, Francis Xavier and a fourth Spaniard, Isidore the Farmer. The Pope who celebrated this grand triumph of the Counter-Reformation, Gregory XV, died a bit less than 16 months later, and was succeeded by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini, who

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A New Short Film about Clear Creek Abbey 15 Oct 10:40 AM (7 days ago)

Recently, a film crew journeyed to Clear Creek Abbey in Hulbert, Oklahoma, to capture a glimpse of the Benedictine way of life. This stop was part of a longer adventure that took the crew across Europe, tracing the rich and beautiful Benedictine heritage that the monks at Clear Creek do their best to steward on the Oklahoma plains. The resulting footage, a short film called The Fire of Faith, is

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Pictures from Mt Athos (Part 4): The Skete of St Andrew 14 Oct 4:00 AM (8 days ago)

Here is another group of pictures graciously shared by a friend who recently visited Mt Athos, this time from a monastery called the Skete of St Andrew, about a kilometer from the administrative center at Karyes, in the center of the peninsula. “Skete” is a Greek word of uncertain origin which means a monastery which is dependent on another; there are twelve such on Athos. That of St Andrew is

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Edward the Confessor and John the Evangelist 13 Oct 4:00 AM (9 days ago)

St Edward the Confessor, king of England, died on January 5, 1066, after a reign of over 23 years. He is called “the Confessor” to distinguish him from King Edward the Martyr (died 978), another Saint who was very popular in pre-Reformation England. He is the last monarch of England honored as a Saint; Henry VI (1422-71) was the subject of a strong popular devotion, with many miracles attributed

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The Maternity of the Virgin Mary 11 Oct 2:30 AM (11 days ago)

The traditional observance of October as the month of the Holy Rosary begins, of course, with the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, and the institution of the feast of the Holy Rosary, also called the feast of Our Lady of Victory. Two years later, at the request of the Dominican Order, Pope Gregory XIII (1572-85) granted the feast to all churches which had an altar of the Rosary. After another

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The Second Oldest Altarpiece of St Francis of Assisi 10 Oct 1:15 PM (12 days ago)

Last week, for the feast of St Francis of Assisi, I posted about the oldest known altarpiece of him, the work of an artist named Bonventura Berlinghieri, which is dated to 1235, only seven years after Francis’ canonization. As a follow-up, here is the second oldest such work, known as the Bardi altarpiece or panel, after the chapel where it has been kept since 1595 within the Franciscan order’s

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A Review of Close the Workshop 10 Oct 3:00 AM (12 days ago)

As readers of New Liturgical Movement may know, the prolific Dr. Peter Kwasniewski completed his trilogy on the Roman liturgy earlier this year. In The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile (2022), Kwasniewski argues—in direct opposition to the claims of Pope Francis’ 2021 Traditionis Custodes—that the Tridentine Rite is the

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The Death of Pope Pius XII 9 Oct 5:00 AM (13 days ago)

Today is the 67th anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII. Here is a beautifully made video from the old Italian newsreel company Istituto Luce, an account of his final days and death, the translation of his body to Rome, and his burial in St Peter’s, with my translation of the narration, and a few notes. “Pius XII died early in the morning of Thursday, October 9th, in his residence at

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Pictures from Mt Athos (Part 3): The Church of the Dormition at Karyes 8 Oct 12:17 PM (14 days ago)

We continue with the pictures which a friend has graciously shared with us from his recent visit to Mt Athos, this time from the little town of Karyes (population 135), right in the middle of the peninsula, which serves as the administrative center of the Monastic Republic. The main church, dedicated to the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, is also called the Protaton, after the Protos (the Greek

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