16 Aug
2021
16 Aug
2021
14 Aug
2021
For the second famous image of the Assumption in the German lands, we must go back to between 1505 to 1510 – still very much the era of the late Middle Ages. The Herrgottskirche (Church of Our Lord) in Creglingen is a chapel, built around 1400, that takes its name from the miraculous finding of […]
10 Aug
2021
The brothers Asam, architects, sculptors and painters, represented the epitome of the baroque in the first half of the 18th century in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. They resided and did much their work in the electorate (principality) of Bavaria – an entity much smaller than the subsequent kingdom and present Land […]
10 Aug
2021
9 Aug
2021
I was fascinated to read the recently published Report in Paix Liturgique on the “epic” of Traditionalism in the United States. And not just because of the complementary reference therein to my own series on the history of Catholic Traditionalism! It’s always useful to get an outsider’s view of one’s own world – even though one […]
9 Aug
2021
There is now a weekly Sunday Missa Cantata at St. Emery Church in Fairfield, CT at 12:30 pm. Fr. Peter Lenox is the celebrant. A lavish coffee hour follows the Mass in the church hall downstairs. Historic photographs above from the website of Holy Family/St. Emery parish.
4 Aug
2021
One hundred Catholics gathered this afternoon at St. Mary’s Church, Norwalk, CT to pray the Rosary for Bishop Caggiano and priests who say the traditional Mass. Bishop Caggiano was meeting during that time with his priests to discuss the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes. Reports of the meeting have been positive.
1 Aug
2021
Sermon for August 1 by Fr. Richard Cipolla From the 7th chapter of St Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not what I want to do, but I do the very thing I hate…So then it is no longer I that do it, but sin which dwells within […]