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This initiative, created by the Church Music Association, emphasizes the importance of the Sacred Liturgy and Sacred Arts, as well as Liturgica.

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A Sequence for the Ascension

4 days ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo

For the ongoing feast of the Ascension, here is a sequence for it which was sung in the Uses of Sarum, York, and Hereford in England, and in those of Paris and Sens in France. (Despite its great antiquity, and its status as the capital of France, Paris was a suffragan diocese to Sens until 1622.) It is attributed, though far from certainly, to the Blessed Hermanus Contractus (Herman the Cripple), better known as the author of the great Marian antiphons Alma Redemptoris Mater and Salve, Regina.
A History of the Popes Named Leo, Part 5: The Medicis, Leo X and XI

5 days ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo

This is the fourth installment of a series on the thirteen papal namesakes of our new Holy Father Leo XIV; click these links to read part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4. The tenth and eleventh Popes to bear the name Leo were both members of the Medici family, the ruling dynasty (at first de facto, later de jure) of Florence.
A Rubrical Note for the End of This Month

6 days ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo

This year, the feast of Ss Peter and Paul falls on the Sunday after the feast of the Sacred Heart. A priest friend has put forth the question, What does one do about the external solemnity of the Sacred Heart, which would be celebrated on that day? The short answer, according to the rubrics of both the 1960 Missal and of the prior editions, is, Omit it. An “external solemnity” is not the translation of a feast.
The Feast of St Petronilla

1 week ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo

Long before either the Visitation or the Queenship of the Virgin Mary were celebrated on this day, and before those, St Angela Merici, the founder of the Ursulines, May 31st was the feast day of St Petronilla. Although she is missing from the oldest Roman liturgical books, she is seen in a painting of the mid-4th century in the catacomb of Domitilla, where she was buried, and her name appears on lists of the venerated tombs of martyrs in the sixth and seventh centuries.
The Festival of St Joan of Arc in Orléans, France

1 week ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo

Today is the feast of St Joan of Arc, kept on the anniversary of her execution by burning at the stake in the city of Rouen, in the year 1431.
The Holy Ghost Hole

1 week ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Michael P. Foley

A Holy Ghost hole in Saints Peter and Paul parish church in Söll, AustriaA curious architectural feature of some churches in France, southern Germany, and Austria is the Holy Ghost Hole, an opening in the ceiling into which different objects were once thrown during the celebration of the Mass. It is speculated that the art surrounding the hole indicates its original function.
Hold Fast to the Traditions: Guest Article by Mr Jay Rattino

1 week ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo

Our thanks to Mr Jay Rattino for sharing with us this interesting article about the folk customs of Italian Catholics, and the efforts being made to preserve and revive them. The Italian Catholic communities throughout New Jersey and the surrounding areas are filled with long-standing traditions, and there are renewed efforts going on to revive the devotional customs brought to this country by their ancestors.
The Ascension of the Lord 2025

1 week ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo

Men of Galilee, why do you wonder looking up to heaven? alleluia. As you have seen Him going into heaven, so shall He come, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. Ps 46 All ye nations, clap your hands: shout unto God with the voice of joy. Glory be... Men of Galilee... (The Introit of the Ascension)Introitus Viri Galilaei, quid admirámini aspicientes in caelum? allelúja: quemádmodum vidistis eum ascendentem in caelum, ita veniet, allelúja, allelúja, allelúja.
The Crazy Liturgy of the Lesser Rogations in the Gallican Rite

1 week ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo

The Lesser Rogations which we keep on the three days before the Ascension are actually older than the Greater Rogations kept on April 25th. They are called “lesser” because they were instituted in Gaul ca. 470 AD, by St Mamertus, the bishop of Vienne, and only adopted into the Roman Rite about 300 years later. Compared to other ancient liturgical rites, the Roman Rite is almost always very simple and even austere.
Durandus on the Minor Litanies

1 week ago | newliturgicalmovement.org | Gregory DiPippo

The following excerpts are taken from book VI, chapter 102 of William Durandus’ treatise on the Divine Offices. Now the Litanies are two, the Greater and the Lesser. The Greater is on the feast of the blessed Mark, and was created by the blessed Gregory (the Great), because of a plague, which caused a swelling of the groin.