New Liturgical Movement

St Basil the Great died on January 1st, 379, after serving the Church as bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia for about 8½ years. The structure of the Byzantine Rite permits the joining of two feasts much more readily than the Roman Rite does, and so it keeps his feast on the day of his death together with that of the Circumcision. In the West, his feast was hardly kept at all befor...

R. Si quaeris miracula,Mors, error, calamitas,Daemon, lepra fugiunt,Aegri surgunt sani.* Cedunt mare, vincula: Membra resque perditasPetunt et accipiuntJuvenes et cani.V. Pereunt periculaCessat et necessitas: Narrent hi, qui sentiunt,Dicant Paduani.Cedunt. Gloria Patri.Cedunt. R. If you ask for miracles,Death, error, all calamities,Leprosy and demons flyAnd health succeeds infi...

Consider thou also, o man that art redeemed, Who it is that hangeth for Thee upon the Cross, how great He is and what is His nature, Whose death giveth life to the dead, at whose passing both heaven and earth mourn, and the very stones are cloven as if it were in their nature to suffer. O for the heart of man, that art harder than the hardness of any stone, if at the memory of s...

Lost in Translation #161We gratefully resume our series on the Latin of the Ordinary of the traditional Mass. In our last essay on the subject, we examined the language of the concluding doxology of the Roman Canon, the Per ipsum. Here, we examine the rubrics accompanying the prayer. After saying the Per quem, the priest takes the Host with his right hand, and with his left he ...

O sacrum convivium, in quo Christus súmitur: recólitur memoria passiónis ejus, mens implétur gratia, et futúrae gloriae nobis pignus datur, allelúja. (The Magnificat antiphon for Second Vespers of Corpus Christi.)O sacred banquet, in which Christ is received; the memory of His passion is recalled, the mind is filled with grace, and the pledge of future glory is given to us, alle...