Category: Liturgical Texts

Diabólica vitáre contágia

5 October 2014

Da, quaesumus, Dómine, pópulo tuo diabólica vitáre contágia: et te solum Deum pura mente sectári. Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that Thy people may...

Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B.

3 October 2014

Would you have recognized him? This is none other than Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion, O.S.B. He was obliged to travel in disguise during World War...

Patri munus et hostiam

30 September 2014

The Office hymn given for Lauds and Vespers in the Liber Hymnarius and in the Liturgia Horarum for today’s feast of Saint Jerome, Doctor of...

August 6th: The Blessing of Grapes

5 August 2014

The tradition of the Roman Church marks the feast of the martyrs Pope Saint Sixtus and his four deacon companions on the 6th/7th of August...

Blessing of Roses in Honour of Saint Rita

22 May 2014

The blessing of roses takes place at the end of Mass on the feast of Saint Rita. It recalls an episode in the life of...

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