New Liturgical Movement

In his post yesterday on the embolism, the prayer which follows the Lord’s Prayer in the Mass, and builds off its concluding words, Dr Foley noted that something of the sort is found in all Western liturgies, and several Eastern ones. For example, the ancient liturgy of Jerusalem, known as the liturgy of St James, or Hagiopolite Rite, has the priest say in the analogous place, “...

Vir Domini Benedictus ferrum de profundo resiliens Gotho reddidit, dicens: * Ecce, labora, et noli contristari. V. Vix enim manubrium misit ad lacum, ferrum de profundo rediit, quod reddens dixit: Ecce. Gloria Patri. Ecce. (The 4th responsory of the Solemnity of St Benedict in the Monastic Breviary.) The episode referred to in the responsory above, depicted by Spinello Areti...

A friend of mine recently visited the Italian city of Ravenna, a port city on the Adriatic coast, about 50 miles directly east of Bologna. In the 5th century, this city became the capital of the waning western Roman Empire, and from the later 6th century to the middle of the 8th, was the seat of the Byzantine imperial governor of Italy, known as the exarch. Several of the city’s...

Lost in Translation #165 After the Lord’s Prayer, the priest says: Libera nos, quaesumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis, praeteritis, praesentibus et futuris: et intercedente beata et gloriosa semper Virgine Dei Genitrice María, cum beatis Apostolis tuis Petro et Paulo, atque Andrea, et omnibus Sanctis (signing himself with the paten), da propitius pacem in diebus nostris (kiss...

Portrait of Sir Thomas More, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1527In the 1969 General Calendar, the celebration of Saints John Fisher and Thomas More is an optional memorial on June 22, whereas in England and Wales it has the rank of a feast. Neither appeared on the universal calendar prior to that date, but in England and Wales their combined feast was celebrated on July 9 after th...