For our final Good Friday photopost, I saved these particularly interesting sets of images. From the FSSP apostolate in Guadalajara, Mexico, we have a live representation of the Via Crucis, and a...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/good-friday-2024-photopost-part-3-via.html
Today is the second day of the penitential observance known as the Lesser Rogations or Minor Litanies. On Saturday, there will occur the feast of St Mamertus, bishop of Vienne in France, who firs...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/the-institution-of-rogation-days.html
A new edition, revised, expanded and published by Os Justi Press What makes literature or art Christian? Some would say just the content, that is, what is said; others would say both the content ...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/book-recommendation-spiritual-history.html
Near the start of this month of Our Lady, I am very pleased to be able to share with NLM readers several photos of the new wall paintings in the church of the Monastery of San Benedetto in Norcia...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/norcias-new-sanctuary-paintings-in.html
The narratives, teachings, and poetry of Holy Scripture are occasionally enriched with a technique known as the envelope structure (often called inclusio in Biblical studies). The “envelope” ...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/of-litanies-and-rogations-in-old-england.html
We are very glad to welcome a new contributor to our writing staff, Mr Robert W. Keim, a secular brother of the London Oratory of St Philip Neri, a linguist, and a literary scholar specializing i...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/welcome-to-new-writer-robert-w-keim.html
The Italian city of Naples keeps three feasts in honor of its Patron St Januarius, the relics of whose blood famously liquify on all three occasions. His principal feast, the anniversary of his m...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/reliquary-busts-of-chapel-of-st.html
In the mid-15th century, the Italian painter Piero della Francesca (1416-92) did a remarkable series of frescoes in the choir of the Basilica of St Francis in Arezzo, known as The History of the ...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/the-story-of-true-cross-by-piero-della.html
The feast of Saint Monica is celebrated in the traditional calendar on May 4 and in the new calendar on August 27. As the Calendarium Romanum, promulgated in 1969, explains: In the fifteenth cent...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/the-feasts-of-saint-monica-and-new.html
I am very saddened to report (via the Facebook page of the Oxford Oratory) that the great Fr John Hunwicke died on Tuesday, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. As many of our readers know...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/fr-john-hunwicke-rip.html
The little town of Cocullo in the Abruzzi region of Italy, with a population of less than 250, has a very particular way of celebrating the feast of its Patron Saint, Dominic of Sora. Domini...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/a-very-unusual-popular-festival-in-italy.html
The feast of the Apostle St Philip is traditionally kept on this day, together with St James the Younger, a custom which derives from the presence of their relics in the Roman basilica of the Twe...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/the-legend-of-st-philip-apostle.html
In yesterday’s post about Saints Catherine of Siena and Francis of Assisi being made the patron Saints of Italy, I explained a bit about the state of cold war that existed between the Papacy an...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/05/pius-xis-first-visit-to-lateran-in-1933.html
Once again, we are very grateful to all those who contributed to this series, which is close to ending. Don’t forget that next week we have the Rogations and the Ascension, and we will be glad ...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/good-friday-2024-photopost-part-2.html
When an American pilgrim visits the ancient cities of Italy today, he may easily fail to realize that his own country is older than the modern state of Italy by nearly a century. From the fall of...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/ss-catherine-of-siena-and-francis-of.html
For the feast of St Peter Martyr, here are some pictures of a particularly elaborate altarpiece dedicated to him. This was originally painted for the church of St Dominic in the Italian city of M...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/an-altarpiece-of-st-peter-martyr.html
Having come in faith to the well, the Samaritan woman beheld Thee, the water of wisdom, and having drunk abundantly thereof, she the renowned one inherited the kingdom that is above forever. (The...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/the-sunday-of-samaritan-woman.html
“Aquae Sanctae Terrae”: The Spiritual Signification of the Waters of the Holy Land A Seminarian from the Midwest Conclusion: The Devil and the Dead Sea (Part 1 may be read here, Part 2 here.)...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/aquae-sanctae-terrae-spiritual_01476030150.html
Marcellinus ruled the Roman Church for nine years and four months (really 296-304). By the order of Diocletian and Maximian (during the last and greatest Roman persecution, 303-6), he was seized ...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/the-legend-of-pope-marcellinus.html
St Mark, whose feast is kept today, is the only evangelist who records that when the soldiers came to arrest Christ in the garden of Gethsemane, “a certain young man followed him, having a line...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/the-life-of-st-mark-evangelist-in-art.html