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1 month ago | 
adoremus.org | Jeremy J. Priest |USCCB Committee |Joseph O'Brien
2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the English translation of Joseph Ratzinger’s landmark book, The Spirit of the Liturgy. To celebrate this significant work and its impact on the life of the Church, the Society for Catholic Liturgy will dedicate its 2025 annual conference to this topic and the liturgical legacy of Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI. In preparation for the conference, we are hosting a year long series of talks based on the 12 chapters of the book.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
adoremus.org | Thomas Kocik |Jeremy J. Priest |Christopher Carstens |Joseph O'Brien
For a long time after gaining independence from the Dutch in 1830, Belgium was one of the world’s most ardently Catholic countries, producing such luminaries as St. Damien of Molokai (1840-89), the missionary priest who died ministering to lepers, and Father Georges Lemaître (1894-1966), the priest and physicist who proposed the Big Bang theory.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
adoremus.org | Jeremy J. Priest |James Bradley |Roland Millare |James T. Pauley
As we approach the reception of a new translation of the Order of Christian Initiation of Adults, it is striking that this text is the least frequently used for Christian initiation. In terms of numbers, the Order of the Baptism of Children, combined with the Order of Confirmation, comes out on top.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
adoremus.org | Carol Jones |Aaron Sanders |Jeremy J. Priest |Daniel Eusterman
As a child starting school in the late 1950s, there was not much about “hearing” Mass that was readily accessible to me. There were lots of intriguing mysteries about what went on up there between the priest (whose back was turned to us) and the Tabernacle (directly in front of him on the altar) to which he seemed to be whispering in secret; however, little of it filtered down to the fourth-to-the-last pew of the nave of St. Ann’s Parish, our usual Sunday morning haunt.
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May 11, 2024 | 
adoremus.org | Aaron Sanders |Jeremy J. Priest |Sean Pilcher |Christopher Carstens
Music lovers may remember how the Council of Trent almost banned polyphony until one of its greatest composers, Palestrina, demonstrated just how clear and intelligible it could be. With musical history brought to such a dramatic inflection point, the only part of the episode requiring improvement is its likelihood: historians now hold Palestrina had no discernible influence on the conciliar decrees.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
adoremus.org | Jeremy J. Priest |Joseph O'Brien |Michael Rennier |Thomas Kocik
The 20th-century poet William Carlos Williams says in one of his poems, “It is difficult/to get the news from poems/yet men die miserably every day/for lack/of what is found there” (“Asphodel, That Greeny Flower”). And what is found there? That is the task, from a liturgical standpoint, that Father Michael Rennier has set himself in his new book The Forgotten Language: How Recovering the Poetics of the Mass Will Change Our Lives.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
adoremus.org | Matthew Tsakanikas |Christopher Carstens |Jeremy J. Priest |Roland Millare
The Eucharist—being the risen Lord made really, truly, and substantially present in our midst—is the New Covenant. It is the memorialized and institutionalized moment in which Jesus made the New Covenant in his body and blood: “the blood of the [new] covenant” (Matthew 26:28; also Luke 22:20). The Eucharistic liturgy is where Jesus purposefully planned and institutionalized his real, true, and substantial presence from heaven to accompany and nourish (cf.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
adoremus.org | Christopher Carstens |Jeremy J. Priest |Roland Millare
It wasn’t until my sophomore year in college that I began to take my Catholic faith seriously. I was quick to quit the Sunday observance as soon as I left home. But thanks to the prayers of parents and relatives, and to the faithful example of influential peers, I was steered back to the Church through the doors of the Newman Center at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln.
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May 6, 2023 | 
adoremus.org | Jeremy J. Priest
WASHINGTON, DC—The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Committee on Doctrine has issued a statement providing principles for evaluating some newer methods and technologies for disposition of the bodies of the deceased. The USCCB’s Administrative Committee approved the issuance of the statement on March 15. In their statement, the doctrine committee affirms that every human being has been created in the image of God and has an inherent dignity and worth.
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May 6, 2023 | 
adoremus.org | Anian Christoph Wimmer |Jeremy J. Priest
CNA—The Vatican’s liturgy czar has intervened against the implementation of resolutions of the German Synodal Way that demand laypeople should be able to regularly baptize and preach the homily at Mass in churches across Germany. In a letter to the German Bishops’ Conference president dated March 29, Cardinal Arthur Roche said neither was possible—despite at least one German diocese already announcing both practices.
