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Lessons and Carols at St. Thomas the Apostle – Friday, December 14, 7:00 PM
Next Friday, December 14th, at 7:00 PM, there will be a candlelight Service of Lessons and Carols at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, part of the St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish. Fr. Frank Lioi will be...
View ArticleGood Video on Vestments
Click on the following link for a brief but informative clip on the subject of liturgical vestments. I originally saw this posted on the New Liturgical Movement website. Vestments
View ArticleWhen and Why Holy Communion is Refused
Christifidelis is the publication of the St. Joseph Foundation in San Antonio, TX, which is committed to assisting the faithful, clergy and laity, in their vindication of rights in the Catholic Church....
View ArticleUnfortunately, not much has changed since 1999.
This article appeared in the New Oxford Review way back in 1999. It was the archival link of the day in today’s NOR news feed. It’s over ten years old but I couldn’t help thinking while reading it...
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“It Spoke To My Soul…I Don’t Know How”
As Roman Catholics, a large part of our mission to “spread the Good News” takes the form of liturgical celebration. It could be said that the liturgy of the Church is the vessel of Her teachings; it...
View ArticleLet’s “move east” here!
Another Parish Moves East by Shawn Tribe From the New Liturgical Movement (I think the writer here is Fr. Rick Heilman) It’s official. St. Mary of Pine Bluff became a parish that celebrates the Novus...
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The Church Building As The Heavenly Jerusalem
The earliest –and longest running- thematic program in church construction and decoration is the vision of the “Heavenly Jerusalem” as described in the Book of Revelation.1 Church buildings have most...
View Article“This is My Body” or “Have a Nice Day”?
Got this today in a news feed from The New Oxford Review. It was written in 2000 and appeared in the Archive section of today’s feed. It actually sounds a little dated to me, now, perhaps because I...
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Zeal for Thy House Will Consume Me -Part XIII- Cardinal Llovera’s Failures
This entry is part 13 of 21 in the series Zeal for Thy HouseThis post should be read in conjunction with the Zeal Post Part XII. In that prior post, it was noted that after two mailings to both...
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Cardinal Dolan: An Embarrassment and a Scandal
In case you haven’t heard Michael Voris’ denunciation of Cardinal Dolan’s giving Holy Communion to Joe Biden at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Palm Sunday, here it is:...
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Mass for Vocations – Friday, April 26, 7:00 PM at St. Anne
We have received word that Knights of Columbus St. Damien of Moloka’i Council #11411 will be sponsoring another vocations-awareness event, this time a Mass for Vocations to be offered on Friday, April...
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Reminder: Mass for Vocations, Tomorrow, 7:00 PM at St. Anne
Just a brief reminder that tomorrow is the Mass for Vocations held at St. Anne, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus Council 11411. Friday, April 26, 2013, 7:00 PM St. Anne Church 1600 Mt. Hope Avenue...
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Reminder: Mass for Priestly Vocations – Friday, August 16
This is just a reminder that on Friday, August 16th, at 6:30 PM, there will be a Mass offered at the Carmelite Monastery on Jefferson Road. The intention of the Mass is for an increase of priestly...
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We’ve lost it.
Photo: http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2013/02/latin-mass-in-borris.html I can recall being told by the sisters, back when I was in grammar school in the 1950s, that when the priest moved from the...
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Introit: Yearning For The Messiah
At the church I attend the troublesome1 (to me) entrance or ‘gathering’ hymn has been dropped, replaced by the chanting of the traditional Introit. This reintroduction of the traditional Introit...
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We Are in the Middle of a Love Story – Latin and its Place in the Roman Church
The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that the Mass is the “source and summit of the Christian life” (CCC 1324). The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, states similarly...
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The Universal Christian Vocation: Edify
St. Paul instructs us in his Epistle to the Ephesians to work constantly for the building up of the Church, for the nurturing of Her members. In St. Jerome’s translation of the Scriptures,...
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William Byrd’s “Mass for Three Voices” this Sunday
William Byrd This Sunday, January 19, 2014, at the usual 3 pm Mass, St. Alban Fellowship will offer its first choral Mass for the second Sunday following Epiphany at the Church of the Good Shepherd...
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Beautiful and Intimate Mass
Click on picture to see a clearer image. William Byrd’s “Mass for Three Voices”, I have read, was probably composed for the environment of a small Catholic church or perhaps even for a chapel in a...
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Four voices will sing Septuagesima Sunday Mass this weekend
(Previously) Healey Willan The Fellowship of Saint Alban will celebrate Holy Mass this Sunday using Missa brevis No. 2 in F minor, by Healey Willan, sung by 4 voices (3:00 P.M., Church of the Good...
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