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In, but not of

Meredith, of Basia me, Catholica sum travelled to the center of the universe recently, hence the hiatus in posting. She has a lovely photo of honeysuckle at the Cloisters, along with other equally lovely photos of her visit.

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Coats of arms of German orders and congregations, bishops, abbots, monasteries and abbeys

Cardinal Schoenborn's coat-of-arms gets Cnytr's Domincan senses tingling at .:{This is totally random and just because I'm obsessed...}:., linking to the Wappen [oats of arms] page at Orden online.de: Das Internetportal für Klöster und Orden.

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We had the caeli roratering a little today here in Raleigh

... so what better thing to do but to listen to the virum and mulierum at The Musical Offering?

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St Paul's-Outside-the-Walls

St Paul's-Outside-the-Walls is one of the two stational churches for the feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul. In the 4th century, Constantine built the first church, according to the Liber Pontificalis.

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June 29, the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul

From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.

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Fr Chad Ripperger, FSSP, on Modern Psychology and the Catholic Faith and on Catholic Tradition and the Liturgy

Una Voce Cedar Rapids, in Iowa, U.S.A., has mp3s of Fr Chad Ripperger's two talks at the Una Voce - Cedar Rapids 2004 Traditional Catholic Conference.

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Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection [more line, and other, art]

Chris Gillibrand at As the excellent Rectaratio blogspot points out, pointed me to ... the Recta ratio blog, and I did something I almost never do: I looked at the bookmarked links on Tom Fitzpatrick's blog, and found some interesting items.

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Saints John and Paul [June 26]

From The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.

I take one translation from Paul Halsall's Medieval Sourcebook, where the account of these saints is here. Reading another version, the 1941 Longmans, Green and Co. (translated by Granger Ryan and Helmut Ripperger) for the Nativity of St John the Baptist, I noticed that my version contained quite a bit not present in Caxton's.

So, on the left is Caxton's, on the right, Ryan and Ripperger's.

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The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

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 The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost.

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Armavirumque, the New Criterion's blog

Now, here are a bunch of snobbish aesthetes. ;-) Too bad they concatenated the words making up the name of the blog.

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'A Traditional Latin Mass Parish', Mater Ecclesiae in Berlin, New Jersey, U.S.A.

Fr Kenneth Baker, S.J., is editor of Homiletic and Pastoral Review, and the magazine's April, 2005, edition contains an article by Michael J. Miller on Mater Ecclesiae, in the Diocese of Camden, in South Jersey. (Technically, it's a non-territorial mission and not a parish in its own right.) Fr Baker is one of the priests who says the Latin Mass back in northern New Jersey, and, as you'd expect, being a Jesuit, is always ready to engage in a delightful and stimulating conversation.

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Clerical vesture: Per Instructionem and Pontificalia insignia now on line

Bryan Jerabek, the seminarian in Maryland, U.S.A. (I suppose at Mount St Mary's), who blogs at Quodlibeta, continues his posting of post-Conciliar documents on clerical vesture.

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Do, Re, Mi

Today is the Nativity of St John Baptist, and even I might be able to handle the melody from Ut Queant Laxis Resonare Fibris.

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Obscure saints (not just Dominicans, either)

Cnytr ('my olive has a first name ...') has a post on St Peter the Martyr (.:{St. Peter Martyr vrs. Heresy -- shh!}:.) with an interesting image. Peter (he wasn't yet a martyr) helped the Seven Holy Founders become the seven holy founders, but not vice versa. Though O.P., he's above the sanctuary entrance at the San Marco monastery in Florence, imploring silence.

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The Ancient Library: Scanned Classical Works

Monkeyfilter also notes Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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First hand accounts: 'history through the eyes of those who lived it'

There are two notable items on Monkeyfilter in the past few days. The first is Eyewitness to History, 'history through the eyes of those who lived it'.

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'The liturgy was ordered in the way it was to create the proper disposition.'

The quote in the title is from How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of ..., a post from June 4, 2005, at Fiat mihi. I recently had a very short exchange with someone about 'what to do at Mass'.

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A blue chasuble: St Thomas a Beckett

The Burnet Psalter, noted at Quodlibeta's The Burnet Psalter, has an image illustrating the Collect for the Feast of St Thomas a Beckett, also known as St Thomas of Canterbury, showing the Saint's martyrdom.

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Saint Edward, King and Martyr [June 20]

From The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.

I've located another version of The Golden Legend, this one from 1900 and edited by F S Ellis, based on Caxton's translation, where the the table of contents appears without the days of the year. This is an html markup version of the volumes which Paul Halsall has at his Medieval Sourcebook.

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The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost, from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, O.S.B.

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 Permalink to this entry || No comments yet

A 'lost' Donatello and a Baroque wreckovation?: the Basilica Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in Rome

In Brief... over at Zadok the Roman points to the
First chance to see 'lost' Donatello masterpiece
in The Daily Telegraph of London, which has this tantalizing tidbit: 'all trace of [the Donatello] was lost after the tomb [of St Catherine of Siena in Rome's Santa Maria Sopra Minerva] was dismantled in the 1570s.'

This will be an abbreviated post, since I haven't the time to look into the subjects as deeply and carefully as I normally would, because of time constraints. I hope to return to the questions raised after Father's Day tomorrow. This is a fascinating church (basilica, actually), and deserves more effort than I can dedicate at this time.

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More line art

Here's another source for line art: Archive of POD Missal Art (black-and-white pencil drawings and engravings).

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Jewish catacombs in Rome, and a few resources on the Christian catacombs

The reopening of Rome's Villa Torlonia, Mussolini's residence, (Guardian article June 14: Mussolini villa opens to public as art museum) was an occasion for cronaca.com's entry mentioning the Jewish catacombs below (Villa Torlonia reopens), and to link to The Jewish catacomb of Torlonia Hill at Roma Sotterranea.

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Classic Cat: a directory of free classical music mp3 downloads

Don't like Listening to old 78 rpms? Does Adam Curry bore you or the Gillmor Gang put you to sleep (oops, they're now here)? Pining for a Romanian Folk Dance by Bartók, a Polonaise by the Heroic Chopin or do you fantasize while polishing your car's chrome? (Do cars even have chrome nowadays?)

Browse Classic Cat, a directory of free classical music downloads, in mp3 format.

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Line art, and how I got there. [A ramble.]

A friend asked me via email last week how I find the sites, posts and the like that I do. I didn't have an immediate answer, and my attention was drawn to other things. I neglected to reply and apologized at church on Sunday. I think there's a Firefox extension which will track the steps by which one reaches a particular site (Slogger?), but if there is, I don't have it installed. (I'm still disappointed that scrapbook won't install into my profile: on the author's advice, I created another profile and installed it there.) I may post about scrapbook in my other blog, chattr +a -V.

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Contemporary images of the sacrament of matrimony

At (so far) two posts on Traditio in radice blog, Nicholas D. C. Wansbutter is posting images from his wedding to Monika Zajac. The first shows the couple leaving the church, the second, the 'Admonition Before Marriage', which takes place before the Mass begins, and more are to come.

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Five Roman mosaics: 'I have never seen such a vibrantly realistic depiction of a human'

Spectacular Mosaic in Libya gains kudos at Mary Harrsch's blog, links to a Times of London story, Roman mosaic 'worthy of Botticelli'. Five mosaics were discovered in A.D. 2000, and kept secret until now, to forestall looters. The works are 'one of the finest examples of representational mosaic art [British scholars] have seen — a masterpiece comparable in quality with the Alexander mosaic in Pompeii. ... "I have never seen such a vibrantly realistic depiction of a human"' according to Mark Merrony.

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June 13, Feast of St Anthony of Padua, Confessor and Doctor

From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Anthony of Padua, first a member of the Canons Regular of St Augustine, then a Franciscan (no link, only the Almighty knows how many Franciscan web sites there are), confessor and doctor of the Church, and some information about this Saint, whose cult has survived for over seven hundred years.

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Clerical vesture: Ut sive sollicite now on line

A seminarian in Maryland, who blogs at Quodlibeta, posts that he has converted Ut sive sollicite, the 1969 Vatican document reforming rules for clerical vesture, to html and pdf files.

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The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

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 The Third Sunday after Pentecost.

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Le Moyen Âge en lumière: digitized illuminated texts from French national library collections

Hortense, in The Illuminated Middle Ages database presents, at MetaFilter, has a wondeful find.

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St Paul's, London, interior restoration unveiled: one man's gift

The restoration of St Paul's cathedral, London, has been twelve years in the planning and execution.

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Holy Trinity, Boston closing December 15 ... or before?

Holy Trinity Church in Boston, is the ethnic German parish and location for the only indult Latin Mass (1962 Missal) in the archdiocese. In Reprieve for Boston indult Latin Mass? Archdiocese: Holy Trinity to remain open to Dec 15, 2005, I posted that the June 30, 2005, Church closing date was extended to December 15, 2005. Other postings were Boston Latin Mass ordered to move to St. James the Greater: "It will effectively destroy the Latin community." and Holy Trinity parish, Archdiocese of Boston.

Suspicion that the archdiocese may close Holy Trinity without warning arise because the archdiocese padlocked the doors of Our Lady of the Presentation School in Brighton, Massachusetts, two days before graduation ceremonies, fearing the school might be occupied.

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Peculiar Worcs burial practices

From Cacciaguida: Yesterday, in A group of workmen laying water pipes near to a Worcestershire church have uncovered the remains of about 20 people dating back to the Middle Ages., points to a BBC Hereford/Worcs (Worcestershire) article, Ancient bones found near church.

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June 9, Thursday in the Octave of the Sacred Heart

Though changes in the early 1960s suppressed the Octave of the Sacred Heart, breviary.net has the pre-1960s Daily Office. Here is part of an encyclical of Pope Pius XI, Lessons iv, v and vi for Thursday in the Octave of the Sacred Heart. I've searched, trying to determine which encyclical or other dicument of Pius XI this is from, without success. None of the encyclicals of Pius XI on the Vatican's web site contain these words, as far as I can tell.

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June 6, Feast of St Norbert, Bishop and confessor

Yesterday, in Nummian reformata ouianumauam deformata, and a Carthusian monk's garden restored, I had some information about St Bruno and the Carthusians. June 6 was the feastday of St Norbert, who likewise withdrew for a while from the world, in the founding of the Canons Regular of Prémontré, the 'White Canons', the Norbertines or Premonstratensians, so called after their first abbey, located in the diocese of Laon, at the place in the wilderness called Prémontré. Bruno had been Master of the Cathedral School and chancellor to the archbishop before he withdrew. Norbert withdrew, then returned and became Archbishop of Magdeburg.

Here are parts of Lessons iv, v and vi from the breviary.net page for June 6, St Norbert, followed by some information on St Norbert and the Norbertines.

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Nummian reformata ouianumauam deformata, and a Carthusian monk's garden restored

... sometimes said to be the motto of the Carthusians, or, as Pope Innocent XI put it 'Cartusia numquam reformata, quia numquam deformata.' The motto actually is 'Stat Crux dum volvitur orbis' ('Stands the cross, still point of the turning world'). The Carthusians never reformed, since they never became deformed.

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Images of Solemn High Mass, Dunn, North Carolina, on the Feast of the Sacred Heart, June 3, 2005

Previously blogged about at Solemn High Mass (Tridentine), Dunn, N.C., Friday, June 3, 6:30 p.m., images of Fr Paul Parkerson's Solemn High Mass are available here.

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The Third Sunday after Pentecost

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 The Third Sunday after Pentecost.

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'Saint Jerome Reading a Letter': unsigned painting identified as by Georges de La Tour

There are perhaps a dozen paintings in the entire world identified as by Georges de La Tour. The first I remember seeing was The Education of the Virgin

The Education of the Virgin


Now The Scotsman reports that another, on loan by the Prado to the Palacio de la Trinidad, headquarters of the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid, has been conclusively identified. Unsigned Painting by La Tour Discovered in Madrid. I found the link to The Scotsman's article via De La Tour discovery in Spain, a post by David Nishimura at cronaca.com.

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Worship Of The Physical Heart Of Christ

This essay, from the Homiletic & Pastoral Review of June, 1977, is from the Catholic Culture site.

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Reprieve for Boston indult Latin Mass? Archdiocese: Holy Trinity to remain open to Dec 15, 2005

The South End News, a local Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. newspaper, reports in its June 2, 2005, edition, that the 'Archdiocese of Boston announced Wednesday that the Holy Trinity Catholic Church ... will be allowed to remain open until Dec. 15, 2005, a reprieve from its original closure date of June 30'.

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Prayer of Reparation to the Sacred Heart, Pius XI

In his encyclical of May 8, 1928, Miserentissimus Redemptor, Pius XI 'decree[d] and command[ed] that every year on the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, ... in all churches throughout the whole world, the same expiatory prayer or protestation as it is called, to Our most loving Savior, set forth in the same words according to the copy subjoined to this letter shall be solemnly recited, so that all our faults may be washed away with tears, and reparation may be made for the violated rights of Christ the supreme King and Our most loving Lord.

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June 3, Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Commemoration of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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Images of Solemn High Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Feast of St Joseph the Worker, May 1, 2005

This past May 1, a Solemn High Mass was celebrated at Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish, Rocky Mount, North Carolina.

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Solemn High Mass (Tridentine), Dunn, N.C., Friday, June 3, 6:30 p.m.

Following on the Solemn High Mass celebrated May 1, 2005, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, a Solemn High Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Church in Dunn, N.C., on Friday, June 3, at 6:30 p.m.

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