In the forthcoming English translation of a new book-length interview with Bishop Athanasius Schneider, The Springtime that Never Came (due out from Sophia Institute Press in Spring or, latest, Summer 2022), Polish journalist Pawel Lisicki muses in the introduction about …
Category: Liturgy
The Latin Mass as Intangible Cultural Heritage
Against the contempt shown in recent decades—and even more, in recent months—toward Catholic tradition, one does not make progress with pacific words, protestations of loyalty, or the wringing of hands. As if the powerlessness of the lowly were not already …
Bishop Conley to Celebrate Pontifical Rorate Mass
On Saturday, December 11, at 6:30 AM at the UNL Newman Center, Bishop James Conley of Lincoln, Nebraska will offer a Pontifical Solemn High Rorate Mass at the throne. This is the fifth consecutive year that a Solemn Rorate Mass …
“Breathing the Air of the Sacred”: Music and the Liturgy
The Church, acknowledging that man is not merely an intellectual being who can subsist on thoughts alone but a creature who approaches reality through his senses, has always emphasized the importance of incorporating sense-perceptible signs into her acts of worship. …
The Illustrated Liturgical Year for Families
It takes saints to make saints. The liturgical year of the Church is filled with quite literally a priceless array of treasures that are all oriented to make it easier for us to get to Heaven. The commemorations of the …
The Saints and Martyrs Reign from our Altars
The Catholic Church celebrates the memory of all her saints in her liturgy today. Besides feast days such as this, the Church also honours the saints in several other ways in the liturgy. Anyone with an understanding of the distinction …
Angels: Fellow Worshipers in the Liturgy of Heaven
Like all ancient liturgical rites of the Church, the traditional Roman rite of Mass—especially if one includes the Asperges me and the Leonine prayer to St. Michael—is full of references and allusions to the holy angels, and more than that, …
The Hermeneutic of 17% and the Faking of Reality
Here is a typical modern situation: A couple – or throuple – hires two television stars to renovate their historic house. The homeowners leave for two weeks while the celebrities argue about what tiles, fixtures, and lamps they plan to …
The Priest Praying for Himself at Mass
What might have been “self-evident truths” once upon a time are no longer evident to many clergy, to their superiors, and to their flocks. One of these truths is staggeringly obvious, yet its implications seem to be not only ignored, …
How the Clergy’s “Distance” from the People Facilitates the Laity’s Offering
The blog Where Peter Is—a site which seems to promote a limitless ultramontanism exempt from the requirements of tradition, magisterial consistency, or reason itself—published an article by Terence Sweeney called “Pope Francis: Guardian of Tradition.” The article launches broadsides against …