Category: Matters Liturgical

Days of Fire and of Light In the traditional Roman liturgical calendar the glorious solemnity of Pentecost has its own Octave: eight days under the...

Fifth Tuesday of Paschaltide Acts 14:19-28 Psalm 144:10-11, 12-13ab, 21 John 14:27-31a My Peace I Give to You Today’s Gospel gives us the very words...

Then again, there is also May 5th . . . O God, who raised up Pope Saint Pius V within Thy Church to uphold the...

I am so impressed by Father Ray Blake’s reflections on celebrating Holy Mass ad orientem that instead of sending my readers over to his excellent...

From the homily of His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew I at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy in the Cathedral of Saint George in Istanbul: Every...