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
Joshua passing the River Jordan with the Ark of the Covenant, 1800, by Benjamin West, (source).“Aquae Sanctae Terrae”: The Spiritual Signification of the Waters of the Holy Land A Seminarian ...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/aquae-sanctae-terrae-spiritual_01378692084.html
Our Triduum photopost series continues with the ceremonies of Good Friday. There will be at least one more of these before we move on to the Easter vigil and Easter Sunday, and late submissions a...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/good-friday-2024-photopost-part-1.html
Onec again, we are grateful to Mr Robert Keim for sharing some of his writing with us, this time in a two part article on the subject of the liturgical use of bells. Part 1 of this article, which...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/the-bells-of-easter-part-2-bell-song-of.html
Phillip Campbell, author of the blog Unam Sanctam Catholicam, and of a lot of books, is putting together a book project about young people and their love for the traditional Latin Mass. We are gl...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/seeking-essayists-for-latin-mass-and.html
St George has the distinction of being one of the earliest examples of a Saint whose biography was recognized to be historically doubtful. A document of the early 6th century known as the Gelasia...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/the-feast-of-st-george.html
NLM is grateful to S.K., a seminarian from the Midwest, for sharing this recent paper with us. – PAKJordan River as it runs through northern Israel“Aquae Sanctae Terrae”: The Spiritual Sign...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/aquae-sanctae-terrae-spiritual.html
Raise up my soul, o Lord, that is grievously paralyzed in sins of every kind, and unseemly deeds, by Thy divine care, as of old Thou didst also raise up the paralytic, that I may be saved and cry...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/the-sunday-of-paralytic.html
This second Holy Thursday photopost shows us very nicely the beauty of the special ceremonies of that day: the Mass and procession to the altar of repose, the decoration of the latter, the washin...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/holy-thursday-2024-photopost-part-2.html
We recently noted that the façade of the FSSP church in Rome, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, has been beautifully restored to its original appearance, after a cleaning project of several mo...
http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2024/04/more-on-restored-facade-of-trinita-dei.html