Two Upcoming Lectures on Sacred Art
The Beauty of the Liturgical Year: Advent
Pope Saint Paul VI (3 April 1969): “Although the text of the Roman Gradual—at least that which concerns the singing—has not been changed, the Entrance antiphons and Communions antiphons have been revised for Masses without singing.”

Having stable, familiar, unchanging plans in place can be very reassuring, rather than the pressure to be original and creative.

“All illustrations were painstakingly edited and partly redrawn.”
Sometimes “seeing is believing.”

A free PDF download of this entire book is provided, courtesy of the St. Jean de Lalande Library of Rare Books.

A mystery! The 1970s ICEL seems not to have included these words, even though they were in the official Latin …

How the peculiarities of the calendar affect Immaculate Conception this year.

Following the Second Vatican Council, black vestments aren’t usually worn because they’re considered too “spooky and scary.”

“If the world is progressing intellectually, should not the existence of God have been defined in the 1st century and the nature of the Trinity in the 19th?” — Fulton J. Sheen

Perhaps we are de-sensitized to the symbol, but the color representing the liturgical feast we celebrate today is in fact one of great importance.

The Dominican House of Studies schola has just released its first album, In Medio Ecclesiae, under the aegis of the newly founded Dominicana Records. The album is available now for download at www.dominicanablog.com/records; CD purchase coming soon.
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