Beauty on a Mountain
Meg
There is a palace on a mountain that beckons from time to time. All are welcome, and tourists, many from outside the Church, move quietly through the peace ...
Liturgy
An Irreverence to Christ
O.A.C.
Photo courtesy of www.altarworthy.com
This Lent has been a very different Lenten experience than years past. I have had occasion to attend Holy Mass at thre...
USA Today profiles Latin Mass
James
Here's an excerpt from an article appearing in USA Today on the growing attraction to the traditional Latin Mass.
In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI formally allow...
Mass and the Mother Tongue
James
Pope Paul VI offers Mass in Italian and Latin
I thought this piece by Dom Alcuin Reid was excellent. He takes a serious and balanced look at the 50th Annive...
“Interior listening” and liturgy
James
Carthusian Rite Confiteor, photo from New Liturgical Movement.
"In a culture which neither favors nor fosters meditative quiet, the art of interior listenin...
“Immanent Return”
James
Bishop James Conley celebrates Mass. Photo credit: Kevin Clark.
In a recent column, Lincoln Bishop James Conley offered a short and eloquent explanation of ...
Liturgical East Side
James
Students of history and liturgy will greatly appreciate a short book published in 2004 by Uwe Michael Lang, Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgi...
A Recommendation from the Café
James
Father Christopher Smith posted an outstanding article on the development of liturgy over at the Chant Café. It's a balanced and scholarly look at the histo...
Continuity
James
Pope Francis offering Mass “ad orientem” on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, January 12, 2014 (photo courtesy of the Facebook page of Msgr. Guido Marini)....
Common Sense and Reverence
James
Has Mass become a bit too chummy and informal, even a bit awkward? Is a sense of the sacred conspicuously M.I.A.? Does your parish more and more resemble a ...