From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Catherine of Siena.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Peter of Verona.

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Saint Vitalis [April 28]

From The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1941.
Translated and adapted from the Latin by Granger Ryan and Helmut Ripperger.

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The Pierpont Morgan Library expansion and renovation

Rare Book News blog posts a link to a WNBC.com story about the renovations and new building at the Morgan Library, New York City, New York.

From The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.
Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1941.
Translated and adapted from the Latin by Granger Ryan and Helmut Ripperger.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv., v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Peter Canisius.

The unofficial website of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications has pdf and rtf files of the Mass booklet / libretto for the Mass.

The Vatican makes the Latin text, with mostly Italian translation, available at CELEBRAZIONE EUCARISTICA PER L'INIZIO DEL MINISTERO PETRINO DEL VESCOVO DI ROMA.

Zadok the Roman notes a different phrasing in the Te igitur in the Mass for the Inauguration of the Holy Father Benedict XVI's Petrine ministy. Inauguration.

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at Fourth Sunday After Easter.

Following is the life this saint, from the breviary.net page for April 21.

Included not only for the edification it inspires, but to understand in a small way, the significance of the new pope's choice of 'Benedict' for his name.

Medieval studies: Gateways, subject guides, and more from the American Library Association's College & Research Libraries News, via Resources for International Librarians, Health Professionals and Researchers at ResourceShelf's rss feed.

Charles Moore, in The Daily Telegraph supplies some personal anecdotes and observations about Pope Benedict XVI at Pope Benedict has a sense of history.

Many blogs have commented on The Independent's two articles from April 17, Decoded at last: the 'classical holy grail' that may rewrite the history of the world and Eureka! Extraordinary discovery unlocks secrets of the ancients.

Today, of course, is the day Americans commemorate the start of our Revolution: the Battle at Lexington and Concord, in Massachusetts. Here is Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Concord Hymn.

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

The Gospel reading in the traditional calendar for the Third Sunday after Easter is from St John, ch 16, verses 16 - 22, the 'A little while and you shall see me no longer ...' words of Our Lord. Following is St Augustine's commentary on this reading, from the Third Sunday after Easter page at breviary.net.

Ballot results for the election of a pope are announced with white or black smoke from a Sistine Chapel chimney.

The South End News reports in its April 7 , 2005, edition, 'at a Parish Council meeting Wed., March 30, the Rev. Hugh O'Regan, who is the administrator [of] Holy Trinity Church, read from a letter from Bishop Richard Lennon, informing the parishioners that the traditional Latin Mass will be moved into the St. James the Greater Church, on Harrison Avenue in Chinatown, upon the closing of Holy Trinity June 30.'

The first printed portrayal of the Earth as a globe and the map credited with giving America its name is up for auction at Christie's reports The Daily Telegraph.

Cronaca links to the Yorkshire Post's article Clean-up starts on famed Minster window.

Fr Reginald Foster, O.C.D. is 'the Pope's Latinist.' His page at Vatican Radio (at the local FM station pages, not the worldwide shortwave station pages) is The Latin Lover.

Probably the only bank machine in the world written in Latin.

Here is part of the Breviary reading for the Second Sunday after Easter, the Second Nocturn, on the breviary.net page, Second Sunday after Easter, commonly known as Good Shepherd Sunday.

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary on Good Shepherd Sunday. The rest is at Second Sunday After Easter.

Jack Perry, here in Raleigh, and who blogs at cantanima, translated some hymns from the Office of the Dead.

Celebrated in Times of Vacancy of the Holy See.
Source: Fr Lasance's New Roman Missal, 1945.

From various sources, here are prayers appropriate to the time when the Holy See is vacant.

Prayer for a Deceased Pope.
Prayer for the Church during times of vacancy of the Holy See.
Propers for a Deceased Pope.

The New Yorker's story is fascinating on several levels.

The Octave of the Pasch

The domain catholichaven.org is for sale. Visit and take in its content before it disappears into the google cache or the Wayback Machine. Here is a portion of what Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B., has to say about this Sunday in the old calendar.

In Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame De Paris, the foundling baby hunchback was discovered on this Sunday, abandoned on the wooden bed inside the church of Notre Dame.

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'Latin will disappear within 12 years in state schools and 25 years in the independent sector ...'