New Liturgical Movement: Announcing a Comprehensive Canonical Critique of “Traditionis Custodes”

As readers of NLM are too well aware, Pope Francis’s apostolic letter Traditionis Custodes aimed at a drastic reduction of the use

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New Liturgical Movement: The Golden Mass of Ember Wednesday

When examined as a group, the Gospels for the Masses of Advent may seem to be ordered in a rather

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New Liturgical Movement: The Feast of St Lucy

Truly is is fitting and just, right and profitable to salvation, that we should give Thee thanks always and everywhere,

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New Liturgical Movement: Music from the Rorate Mass

Early this morning, I attended a Rorate Mass at which the following motet by the Spanish composer Cristobal Morales (1500-53)

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New Liturgical Movement: The End and the Beginning of the Church Year: Interlocking Clasps in the Hidden Season

When we keep in mind these artistic and theological hermeneutics, a startling image emerges, like a figure from the fog:

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New Liturgical Movement: “Shortly Before Advent” – An Idea Inspired by St. Gertrude the Great

O most Loving Lord, by Thy pierced Heart, pierce her heart with an arrow of Thy love, so that nothing

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New Liturgical Movement: From All Saints to Advent: the Dedication Feasts of November

On October 31st, the Church militant upon the earth prepares itself for the great solemnity of All Saints with a

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New Liturgical Movement: For He Must Eventually Reign…

“The Sunday next before Advent had an old popular name: ‘Stir-up Sunday’. This derived from the old prayer, the Collect

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New Liturgical Movement: A Child Singing with the Angels: The Non-Funerary Funeral

When a baptized child dies before reaching the age of reason, it goes at once to heaven to praise God

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New Liturgical Movement: “For a General Liturgical Reform” by Annibale Bugnini (Part 3)

We continue our publication of the first-ever English translation of Bugnini’s programmatic 1949 article in Ephemerides Liturgicae, outlining the plan for

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