[Original post, July 12, 2010] Anyone who has used a hand missal or a breviary is familiar with the chart of movable days somewhere in the...

Over the last couple weeks a visiting friar has displaced me from my regular place in choir. Not a big deal, though I don't like my litt...

There are those who like to think that liturgical Latin has been making comeback. Not that it needs to of course; as goes the oft quoted sec...

From Fr. Cantalamessa's fourth Lenten homily for this year: "I am speaking from experience here. I belong to a religious order in...

Here in Rome the proper calendar includes several blessed and canonized popes that don't appear in the General Roman Calendar. The Pope,...

Attentive readers of this blog will have noticed that since initiating a liturgical life in Italian a little over a year ago, I have tried t...

At breakfast this morning I got into an interesting conversation on the broad variety of practice in the Order regarding the praying of the ...

Melito of Sardis is wonderful in the Office of Readings today: Here he is who bore much in many; here is the one who was killed in Abel an...

Yesterday I finally got to confession. It had been too long. In fact, it had been since the day of my pilgrimage to the bleak Via Ostiense 1...

The new Ordo that comes ahead of the new liturgical year is like the ecclesiastical equivalent of the new box of crayons on the first day of...

I heard yesterday with great delight that our bishops in the United States had voted in favor of a project to develop a new translation of t...

Every year on the feast of St. Luke, Gregory the Great pierces me a little bit in the Office of Readings: As he preaches on the Lord's a...

I appreciated St. Ambrose in the Office of Readings today, from his treatise on Cain and Abel, as he explicates the Lord's teaching on p...

I should be so fortunate as to gloriously conclude my Franciscan career by being burned at the stake in Marseilles, with soldiers guarding t...

Today I decided to take the morning off. The Mass here at the friary was to be an anniversary Mass for a deceased lady who had been a friend...

In various places I saw this week the announcement from the Canadian bishops' conference regarding bishop Raymond Lahey having been dism...

Somebody asked me: do I have to attend the services of the Triduum? The short answer, as it seems to me: no. Of course there is the Sund...

Here's a liturgical dubium at the heights of pedantry. I have Masses in two parishes this weekend, one a Saturday vigil and the other ...

I love breviaries. Yesterday I was thinking about how I have a lot of them. Not that I make any apology for this, because it's one of th...

The new translation is afoot. At the parish where I celebrated Mass yesterday the new Gloria was sung. Here in the States we are now allowed...