Fr Mauro Gagliardi, lecturer at the Pontifical Athenaeum "Regina Apostolorum", who was appointed Consultor to the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff last September (see an excerpt of a Zenit interview with him from January here), has an important piece in today's edition of the...

An Antique Bronze Altar exquisitely designed with accompanying materials for the Tridentine Mass all of magnificent beauty After we finished touring the 2nd floor of the Museum we were ushered to go down and were led to another room. When I entered the said room I was as if enchanted by the great be...

Once again, as we are going deeper into 2oo9 I cannot forget the beautiful memories of 2008. There are so many blessings to be counted and here are some of the few related to my apostolates: 1. The Conversion of Bro. Obeth Apin from being an ADD pastor into a Catholic Apologist and t he Voluntary Se...

One of our readers thinks it would be helpful, and time-saving, to provide a collection of quotations from then-Cardinal Ratzinger on the subject of orientation in liturgical prayer. With gratitude to Michael Kowalewski, here it is: Despite all the variations in practice that have taken place far in...

CVSTOS FIDEI MONDAY EDITION Morning Update Anglican Vicars, Father & Son, Turn Catholic Priests - Ruth Gledhill, London Times The New Culture War - Rich Lowry, New York Post Caroline Kennedy, The More "You Know" - Tito Edwards, American Catholic Baby Born Deaf & Blind After Mother Had Inject...

The Queen-Mother is once again enthroned in the Holy Mass which was the culminating part of the Apologetic Convention. Just like the Apologetic Seminars of the previous years, this Convention was concluded with the Holy Mass which is the highest form of worship and adoration of God in the Catholic C...

I'll just paste the first two paragraphs of his brief (11-paragraph) essay on Summorum Pontificum, worship ad orientem, and the "reform of the reform": Pick up the Ball and Run! Taking a Stance on the increasing Sentiment in favor of a Reform of the Liturgical Reform Recently I happened across what ...

There was a delightful post over at the blog of Fr. Dwight Longenecker in Greenville, South Carolina. He is on staff at St. Mary's where priests recently began celebrating ad orientem, the way the ordinary form or Novus Ordo is celebrated at Grotto. He is also a chaplain at St. Joseph's Catholic sch...

The image of the Holy Spirit shines above the Altar arranged for Ad Orientem worship During yesterday's Solemnity of Pentecost or the Descent of the Holy Spirit, Fr. Abe celebrated two Masses: the first, a Novus Ordo Mass in the Bikol language attended by the regular worshippers in St. Jerome Emilia...