inundado por um mistério de luz que é Deus e N´Ele vi e ouvi -A ponta da lança como chama que se desprende, toca o eixo da terra, – Ela estremece: montanhas, cidades, vilas e aldeias com os seus moradores são sepultados. - O mar, os rios e as nuvens saem dos seus limites, transbordam, inundam e arrastam consigo num redemoinho, moradias e gente em número que não se pode contar , é a purificação do mundo pelo pecado em que se mergulha. - O ódio, a ambição provocam a guerra destruidora! - Depois senti no palpitar acelerado do coração e no meu espírito o eco duma voz suave que dizia: – No tempo, uma só Fé, um só Batismo, uma só Igreja, Santa, Católica, Apostólica: - Na eternidade, o Céu! Chartres Pilgrimage 2009
The first and official photos are now available from the 2009 Chartres pilgrimage .
Liturgical News and Notes from San Diego to Sydney
The Brothers of the Little Oratory in San Diego sent in a photo from their Solemn Vespers on St. Philip's Day, which provides another good opportunity to encourage our reform of the reform and usus antiquior communities to take to heart an important task of a new liturgical movement: to revive the sung, public celebration of the Divine Office.
Clerics from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter and a Premonstratensian from St. Michael's Abbey were involved.
An Australian reader wished to share news of a Solmen Mass celebrated in Sydney at historic St. Benedict's church. Our reader tells us that it was "the first Catholic church consecrated in Australia and has the oldest extant set of bells on the Australian mainland." He continues: "This Mass (in the octave of Pentecost) was requested by the students of the Sydney campus of Notre Dame Australia. St Benedict's functions as a university church as well as a parish... The parish...is known for the reverent and prayerful quality of all its liturgical celebrations. Each Sunday a Solemn Mass in the new rite and a low Mass in the old rite are offered."
40 Hours at Westminster
There was Pontifical Vespers and Votive Mass for Peace offered by Bishop John Arnold, auxillary of Westminster. The Mass setting was Gabrieli's Missa Brevis and the motets were Britten's Jubilate Deo and Elgar's O Salutaris Hostia.
Ordinations at the Benedictine Monastery of Clear Creek
The Clear Creek Benedictines ordained a new priest. Little other information is available at this time, but here are the photographs of the event.
Anniversary Mass of the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem
A few days ago, the NLM posted a guest article by one of the members of the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem, noting their anniversary Mass was being celebrated today at St. Michael's Abbey in California -- a Premonstratensian abbey.
Exquisite Gothic Revival Vestments made by Dom Daniel Augustine Oppenheimer
Cardinal DiNardo, the Book of Divine Worship, and Thoughts on Hieratic English in the Liturgy
Archbishop of Galveston-Houston, His Eminence Daniel Cardinal DiNardo and Fr. John Saward, writer and parish priest of Ss. Gregory & Augustine in Oxford.
One of our readers shared a brief report and some images of the Pontifical Mass offered by the Cardinal according to the Book of Divine Worship, the liturgical book of the Anglican Use in the Latin Rite:
The Cardinal’s Mass was noteworthy in showing us an American Cardinal celebrating Solemn Pontifical Mass in robust, hieratic English, with full choir propers, ad orientem, using the Roman Canon, with the threefold Domine non sum dignus, and Communion administered to the faithful kneeling and on the tongue.
Priestly Ordinations in Wigratzbad
H.E. Most Rev. Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Karganda, Kazakhstan, and author of the book "Dominus est", ordained new priests for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter in the shrine church of Wigratzbad, Germany, where the Fraternity has its European seminary. Here are some images from the ceremony .
