The 2013 annual conference of the Society for Catholic Liturgy will be held October 3-5 at St. Mary on the Lake in Mundelein, Ill.
The deadline for paper proposals has just been extended to July 15. The call for submissions is available...Show More Summary
A bbot Michael Zielinski OSB from the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship discusses the differences and similarities between the liturgical approaches of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. (Catholic News Service)
T he Church Music Association of America has announced a conference honouring the legacy of Msgr. Schuler at Saint Agnes Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The conference will include the celebration of Vespers (featuring Mozart’s Vesperae...Show More Summary
St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce the provisional list of speakers who will participate at the Sixth Fota International Liturgy Conference to be held in Cork, Ireland, 6-8 July 2013: 1. Robert AbyneikoShow More Summary
The archives contain images of thousands of young Catholic school children in the 1920s learning chant. It is a beautiful thing to see. But what happened to these people and why weren’t they around to protect the liturgy against what...Show More Summary
The following article appeared yesterdy in the National Catholic Register. Benedict XVI Put Liturgy Front and Center NEWS ANALYSIS: The pope emeritus’ words and deeds regarding the Mass led the faithful closer to God. by TRENT BEATTIE 03/20/2013 Pope Benedict XVI’s keen liturgical interest is well known to devout Catholics. Show More Summary
By way of the Catholic News Agency yesterday: Reverent liturgy helps us encounter Christ. La Garde-Freinet, France, Mar 13, 2013 / 04:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Celebrating the liturgy with reverence and beauty helps facilitate the encounter...Show More Summary
“St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the sixth Fota International Liturgy Conference will be held at the Clarion Hotel, Lapp’s Quay, in Cork (Ireland) 6-8 July 2013. The theme of Fota VI is: Sacrosanctum...Show More Summary
(By way of The Catholic World Report yesterday) February 27, 2013 An interview with Dom Alcuin Reid about the liturgy, Vatican II, and the upcoming Sacra Liturgia 2013 conference in Rome The Sacra Liturgia conference, to be held in Rome...Show More Summary
(Vatican Radio) One of the lasting legacies of Benedict XVI’s pontificate will be the mark he has left on the Liturgy as it is celebrated today. In short, he has re-focused our attention on how we, as Catholics, celebrate our faith in...Show More Summary
By kind permission of The Catholic Herald, NLM is pleased to be able to present the following piece by Dom Alcuin Reid.
by Dom Alcuin Reid
for The Catholic Herald
Joseph Ratzinger was immersed in the liturgy from his childhood, as...Show More Summary
While the shock news of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is being absorbed by Catholics around the world, some will realise that their parishes feel different as a result of this pontificate. The liturgy is more conservative; the mood among priests and people, more humble. This Pope was an uncompromising stickler for ritual. He revered the [...]
I came to Orthodoxy from Catholicism partially because of its unchanged liturgy; because the Orthodox Church, in its wisdom, never embarked on a path of liturgical self-destruction.
Attached are some photos of the Services of Placing-of-Hands (ordinations) to reader, subdeacon and deacon and Divine Liturgy from last Sunday, 16 December 2012, the festival day of Holy Prophet Zephanias, in case these are of interest...Show More Summary
St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy is pleased to announce that the sixth Fota International Liturgy Conference will be held in Cork (Ireland) 6-8 July 2013. The theme of Fota VI is: Sacrosanctum Concilium 1963-2013. To commemorate...Show More Summary
Baltimore, Md., Nov 15, 2012 / 04:09 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has approved a plan to draft an amended edition of the English-language Liturgy of the Hours for use in the United States. The conference’s Committee on Divine Worship, headed by Archbishop Gregory M. Show More Summary
Did you ever wonder why the Mass is structured the way it is? Latin-rite Catholics — 90 percent of us — have been celebrating Mass in the ordinary form we know today for about 45 years. That is longer than over half of today’s Catholics have been alive. The Mass we know today has its [...]
Musician Adam Bartlett has been very busy for the last twelve months on a project I suspected was extremely important to the future of Catholic liturgy. He tried many times to engage me and talk to me about what he was doing, but I had a hard time keeping up with his plans and ideas. Show More Summary
During an elaborate open-air ceremony at the Vatican's Saint Peter's Square this morning that involved a lot of fancy costumes, bejeweled bibles, Latin liturgies, and probably some bored, sleep-weary children, clandestine Sith lord Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha (along with six others), making her the first Native American saint. Show More Summary
Imani Temple is a unique religious congregation, founded more than two decades ago after rebel priest George A. Stallings Jr. broke from the Catholic Church to minister to African Americans with a blended doctrine and liturgy incorporating Catholic, African and black evangelical elements. Show More Summary