Interesting, Fr is wearing the Laetare Vestments. I do understand his homily, however, the Sacred Liturgy here needs to catch-up in terms of content and beauty.

Thanks Soundingjoy....Happy New year to you too.

Hey Ira, thanks every so much!

@lukedaniel - Thank you for the responsible posting. All is understood, thanks again. To "tbswv", you need to treat the written word more responsibly!

Introitus for the Solemnity of the Birthday of Our Lady on Sunday 08th Sept.

A most excellent presentation, thanks. I reckon much more would get done at this Synod (and implemented) than other Synods I have been to in the Caribbean. In this case, in Washington DC, a better quality of Episcopal leadership perhpas? ......

@tbswv - You state such serious allegations without supporting evidence. Please be aware that you can be prosecuted for what you have written!

Lovely "Totus tuus" , I beleive it is by Gorecky. Beautiful indeed! Thanks.

Excellent performance, elegant and full of baroque majesty and beauty. Thanks!

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@ Ben - I have noticed that there is a certain 'arrested development' with regard to the male gays (among many other behavioural anomolies). This is agrivated by oppression, by hate and by militance. In other words, the more we tell them they are wrong, is the more they rebel like teenagers and go all out to show us they CAN DO as they please.

Particularly in the USA, chaps have been very vehement and almost venemous in their approach to the gay populus. Where has this got us? No where but a … [More]

Lovely, thanks. However, one is not quite convinced that the Renaissance styled reredos (above the altar on the Eastern Wall), complements the rather modern style of the Church itself. But having said this, lovely ceremony indeed. Thanks.

The music is gorgeous, the ceremonial quite complex though.

@philosopher - Quite!! In addition to which, psychology has not yet solved the problem of 'reinforced sexual behaviour'. So if one were a practicing gayman as a teenager, as a young twentisomething, it is not possible to stop..... but psychology, according to Fr Groeschel, would have us believe that is it possible.... Hence the problems now - sexual activity whose causes are located in rather different areas of human psychopathology; psychopathology which has NOT yet been sorted out. Better … [More]

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Utterly beautiful!! THIS is what was meant by "organic development from pre-existing forms" of art and music! Well done!! Gorgeous!

This reminds me of how the Renaissance used the Latin Chant and its modes to give birth the Polyphony of Josquin and then Palestrina! Now, we do the same thing, only in the vernacular. A most agreeable thing indeed. Thanks!

As was said by Walter Cardinal Brandmüller in the adjacent article, the correct liturgical reforms of the Second Oecumenical Council of the Vatican, are yet to be implemented.

Hence the unlawful reduction of the use of Latin.

Thanks much!

However, the Introit is just dreadful; compared with the Solesmes method of SINGING the chant which is so melodious and beautiful. Why do the Vatican Choirs persist in their aweful methodology?

It has been proven many times, that our ancient forefathers, SANG, they made free-rhythmic melody. In this video, the choppy, iso-rhythmic chant-singing is an unfortunate relic of the pre-Solesmes restoration. I reckon it's a Roman thing, perhaps?

Ah yes, a most balanced and well-considered article. His Emminence makes that most important distinction between the purport of the Second Oecumenical Council of the Vatican, and the Doctrinal misunderstandings that happened afterward. I would suggest this is located in the Episcopate's erroneous endeavours, which are numerous indeed!

Then His Emminence makes yet another important statement that separates the Council's main purport vis-a-vis the Sacred Liturgy, and what really happened: the … [More]

Terrific news about the Extraordinary Form of Mass returning to Manila in their Pontifical University. Thanks!

Now, regarding the DNA topic, I quite think that we do not know enough. This is the reason behind the polemic nature of studies, ie today genes say "X", next week, the same genes are found to say "XXY"..... So one is rather hesitant to put any value to these studies just now.

Pax et Bonum!

A valiant effort indeed!! Thanks so much for this...

However, three things stand out: 1. Lack of tempo control, one part relative to the other; 2. Lack of vocal dynamics; 3. Lack of clarity of the text.

Other than the above, a delightful performance indeed. Thanks.

@filiiSSR - Thanks for that, and understood.

Gosh.... dearest filiiSSR are there any plans for a bigger Oratory? This Chapel seems rather cramped.... Maybe something in the tradition of the great Celtic traditions, made from the Island's stone perhaps?

A most resplendent witness to all the Roman Church, that Beauty is not dead, no matter how hard the modernists have tried to kill the glorious Roman Rite.

Congratulations to The Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy redeemer!

Laus Deo!

Beautiful.... just one thing, there is no such thing as the 'Gregorian Rite', in the West there is only the 'Latin Rite'. One may have a 'Gregorian Mass', according to the Roman Gradual Propers and Ordinaries. The Mass ordinary being sung in this video sounds much later than the Gregorian Chant! Mozart Perhaps?

@Fidelium - Quite! Like that Fr Jeffery priest, who keeps uploading a 'protestantized' Liturgy..... Just dreadful really!

This needs to be promulgated from the Roman Curia as official Liturgical Instructions! This is NOT getting down to the men in the pews on account of the biases of the Clergy....

As I said before, this priest presides over a Lex Orandi [Formal Liturgy of the RC Church] that is only the bear essentials [only just!], and is in no way the FULL Roman Catholic Liturgical praxis for Holy Mass iuxta Rubricis Missalis Romani MMXI. Yet again the lack of understanding of that old Roman Catholic Gregorian maxim Lex Credendi - Lex Orandi has produced a 'watered-down' version of Holy Mass.

On the other hand, the content of Father's holmily is quite sound. Nevertheless, one can see … [More]

@sheenfan - Yet the priest presides over a Lex Orandi [Formal Liturgy of the RC Church] that is only the bear essentials [only just!], and is in no way the FULL Roman Catholic Liturgical praxis for Holy Mass iuxta Rubricis Missalis Romani MMXI. Yet again the lack of understanding of that old Roman Catholic Gregorian maxim Lex Credendi - Lex Orandi has produced a 'watered-down' version of Holy Mass.

On the other hand, the content of Father's holmily is quite sound. Nevertheless, one can see … [More]

HAR HAR HAR....

Smashing! Thanks...

Pleasant indeed! Thanks.

Gosh, what inspiring news, thanks! If I am not mistaken, Hugh Lord Gilbert is an 'OSB', the Abbot Emeritus of Pluscarden Abbey - a fine man indeed!

HA!!!

Greetings..... Who is this Rev. Susan Beil? I googled her and it rather seems she is a Presbyterian(?)

@ Fidelium - In addition to which, that the Clergy don their Clerical attire! That priests be clad in the sacerdotal Cassock (or 'Soutane') should be de rigurer; rather than skinny jeans, an ear-ring in his ear, and designer T-Shirts; or the other extreme, a dreadful pair of trousers and a shirt with a 'built-in' clerical collar that looks home-made! Then there is the 'clerical suit', with its origins in the Protestant church, e.g. the Church of England.... Let the Deacon, Priest and Bishop … [More]

LOL!!! Even though that 'new magnificat' is really very funny, it is also, because it describes the rogue female religious so well, a very sad, sad, thing indeed.

"Seit Hunderten von Jahren die Protestanten lustig gemacht Katholiken fordern das Allerheiligste ein "Gott-Cookie" scheint es einige in der Kirche haben endlich die Prämisse akzeptiert. Sakrileg Sakrileg äußern." (Giovanni A. Cataneo unten.)

@philosopher - Greetings mate! I concur, even in this courant Moyen Age , the British Bishops still continue to pander to devient clerics AND to almost every whim of the people. I suspect this is no different in many of the other RC Sees out there....

On the other hand, a Bishop these days needs to be a politician. BUT, I maintain, that he must be a CHRISTIAN politician (not like the Borgia and Mancini Popes of old, or John Bell of Westminster in 1580!). Therefore, His Emminence is skating on … [More]

Gosh, re the RC female religious in the USA, and inviting this affekt into their midst to address them:

When one lets go of ones own identity in Christ Jesus and His Church, and the resultant identity of ones station in life, one ALWAYS attempts to fill this void with that which is 'new' or 'other' than... But, as we have seen with the Sacred Liturgy, not all that is new is good, or even GOOD for ones soul!

Poor female religious in the USA, they are quite lost indeed. One prays that through … [More]

"Iuravit Dominus et non paenitebit eum tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech" (Ps. CIX: iv).

Thanks for the news....Gosh! Cucumber and honey? How interesting... thanks for that cultural information.

Pity Ampelforth has disintegrated into the Novus Ordo nonsense..... But, by Vespers they regain some semblence of Benedictine Liturgical Orthodoxy...

The Fathers of the Church did practice these Charismatic gifts (we just have to read the New Testament and the Didache to see this). But this was necessary for the time they were in (persecution etc.) and the initial confirmatory stages in the development of doctrine and dogma. In other words, babies in the faith required milk.

Have we developed sufficiently to require solid meat? The Church has indeed, but with all that is happening in the church from the inside, might the Charismatic Renewal … [More]

Teehee... nothing new at all! Just look at the Medici and Borgia Popes, Cardinals and priests! lol The Church and her human frailty I suppose.

Thanks! Interesting that the Choir School of Westminster ABBEY are present in St Peter's Basilica to sing for such an important Roman Catholic Liturgy. Have we made such strides in oecuminism, I wonder....

Utterly arrestingly beautiful....thanks Santiago!

Thanks for the news!

I think that the Sarum Rite is being celebrated by Roman Catholic priests of the Anglican Ordinariate in the UK. However, I am not certain that this is done across the Pond in the US of A. The C of E congregations and clerics who whent to the New World, many centuries ago, were quite 'low church' in some regions (e.g. the Southern USA) and very 'high church' in others (e.g. the Eastern Coast of the USA).

How much of the C of E 'high church' remains? I do not know, but … [More]

Glorious really! However, the Bride is incorrectly attired; this would be allowed in the extraordinary form today, far less in the old days! The opening ought to have been in Latin. One therefore remains unconvinced that this is per the 1962 Missal.
What is the organ processional here? Thanks.

@Cannoli - Gosh..... Again, I say, what a battle you chaps have on your hand.... Let us pray that the Church Officials 'get-smart'!

Just a little aside here. I never really got the American hatred of the homosexual. Even on Gloria.TV it just seemed obscene and just horrid really. BUT!! I met some homosexual chaps from California and from NYC the other day, and crickey, these chaps must be mentally ill! The rage and venomous mode of living and operating in society is just pathological!

Therefore, I now see the acrimony and reason-d'etre for the American's fierce, almost preoccupation with, crushing this beast. Gosh, what a … [More]

Dearest bretheren, it has been the tradition of Holy Mother Church for centuries, to allow Abbesses to wear the Deacon's stole and to communicate their communities outside of Holy Mass; to administer the viaticum and to offer presidential prayers. This however, was restricted to the Abbey precincts.

I therefore see nothing wrong with Mother Teresa distributing Holy Communion to her sisters, to her community. Nothing new here! (Do not forget, that a religious superior may have the rank of minor … [More]

Awwww....bless you! Thanks!

Absolutely stunning! Thanks. However, this Basilica can have NO other than the full Solemnity of the Holy Mass as per Vatican II - all the Gregorian Chant, Polyphony, Mass ad orientem, and with all the splendour of Roman Catholic tradition.

The unfortunate table in that august sanctuary, is just out of place really.

What a treasure, thanks for sharing!

@Gloria.TV News Briefs - A most excellent idea, thanks.

Oh, thanks.

SBpfu - Thanks mate! Enjoy the Eternal City!

SBpfu - Greetings dear brother! One is always amazed at the lengths to which the disturbed go to destroy the Church. These 1960s clerics just need to retire peacfully in a home somehwere!

Flawless performance, thank! However, the organ has no chiff and character.... This is the risk one runs when one chooses to use a digital instrument. But thanks!

Indeed! I rather think it high time to remind the Roman Catholic world that WHAT we believe must be completely experienced in HOW we pray. Pope St Gregory the Great taking a leaf from the Apologia of Prosper of Aquatanium, gives us this most precious of Liturgical principles:
Lex Credendi - Lex Orandi

Remember our heritage Roman Catholics out there! Let us stop trying to be everythings else BUT Roman Catholic!

Ira! Greetings dear Lady.

A most agreeable thing indeed! If the Christian Leaders do not have a care for the poor, who will? Well done Your Emminence!

Gosh! Indeed, however, having seen the Installation and Ordination of the New Bishop of Kansas the other evening on tele, in his Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, one is still not convinced of the Catholicity of this interior heartland of the USA. The entire liturgy (NOT sung by the cheif celebrant, not even the presidential prayers!), reminded me of a Church of England liturgy. There wasn't a piece of Gregorian Chant or Palestrina. On the other hand, could their choir have done any better?

@philosopher - Hi mate! Thanks, I rather enjoy cooking, hence the analogy (and I quite think that the love of good earthy food is common to us all).

Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, USA, is appointed member of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The objections are that this Cardinal is NOT a promoter of orthodox Latin Rite liturgy. However, it is posited that his Emminence is a promoter of orthodox Faith and Doctrine.

Now, if one were to think "I want to cook beef-stew today", then actually say "I shall cook corned-beef today", BUT, in reality, make a sandwich of Cheese and Ham, all the while adamantly … [More]

A most excellent explanation of the Fullness of the Mass in the Extraordinary Form.

Thanks.

Shame on NHS!!!

SBpfu - Zut alors! Peut-être que nous pouvons attendre de voir si elle se concrétise.

A most agreeable thing indeed. God is indeed in charge, not men!

Oh, SBpfu, I am completely lost at praync, what on earth is praync talking about?

@SBpfu - Indeed! The Benedictines at Norcia are a sterling example of the what Sumorum Pontificum meant; the coexistance of the two Forms of Holy Mass. In the French Solesmes Congregation there is also such a thing, but no a permanent fixture; Liguge and Kergonan would have Missa ad orientem (OF) in Latin 'on occasion' and the 1962 Mass (EF) on occasion as well, e.g. Mass of Low Sunday. Nevertheless, Norica seems to have the most stable example of the two Forms, beautifully executed for the … [More]

Interesting interpretation of the rite of penance.

@SBpfu - Hi .... Quite, many choose not to READ the Holy Father's writings and are stuck in anachronistic writings which, no doubt, one discovers to be pre-Vat.II and circumstance-conditioned. However, there are those who just think with a paucity of knowledge about the subject. Thanks for educating us chum.

Gosh.... I thought things like this was gradually becoming extinct (especially with the new renaisance in the liturgy in the USA).

Now, being German, one expects the Holy Father to be systematic in his approach to applying a remedy to this problem. This means that much time be spent in taking care of much detail, first, in order to implement a more longlasting and efficacious remedy in the future.

But! One does get the urge, from time to time, to see a Feudal Intervention by the Holy Father: … [More]

Irenaeus - Quite! He's just no longer suited to the job really.....

Gosh.... which "inside sources"? How reliable are these sources?

On the other hand, we have the pavlovian response to the homosexual agenda as seen through American lenses. Is the devil to be seen behind every bad Cleric, or is it just that this cleric is no longer fit for the job? hummm.....

Beautiful! Thank you... Interesting that much of this can be found in the Latin West until the Council of Trent. Then the beauty was reduced on account of the length of the service. Now..... gosh, the beauty is all by gone and replaced by Mssrs Joncas, Temple,Talbot, and the 60s-70s lot. The ancient chants in Latin and the tristagion was set aside. Good that we are returning to this..... let us make haste!

All the Cosmos, all that is; all that was and is to come; in all Sacred Time bursts forth in continual thunderous praise "WORTHY is the Lamb that was slain, to receive power, might, and glory, forever and ever, AMEN!!" SVRREXIT DOMINO VERE, … [More]

The single Candle: The Saviour is now among the dead; He goes on His salvific mission unto the underworld, freeing ALL peoples past, present and future, from Original Sin.

O Felix cvlpa qvae talem et tantvm mervit habere Redemptorem!!

Palestrina - Lamentations, Holy Saturday.

No words necessary.....

Gosh, what a difference in style between His Emminence and Arch. Fulton Sheen!! On the other hand, this is akin to a typical American Talk Show Host style - a similar style to Arch. Sheen, just a different era of Television 'presence'. Interesting.....

Nice, thanks! Would have prefered the traditional Matins with its Lamentations though....

I rather think that the recent post of Johncage requires sensorship. I is one things to have a strong oppinion about the Holy Father, quite another to associate the Holy Father with the devil. Make God protect us all from the sedevacantists and … [More]

Venetian Chant - simply beautiful!

Thanks!

Fantastic, thanks! However, it rather seems illogical and therefore pointless to carry the shrouded Crucifix lit by torches.... either the Cross is not to be visible before the unveiling during Good Friday Solemn Liturgy, or it is just used without shroud until Maundy Thursday.

One remains convinced however, that the Processional Cross ought to remain in the Sacristy until Gloria Saturday night at the Vigil.