From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at the Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost.

Today's propers in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica XI. post Pentecosten.

In the June, 2005, issue, Homiletic & Pastoral Review there is a book review of Thomas Aquinas and the Liturgy. The review is here.

I find it notable for this:

... Aquinas helps us to see that just as Jesus lived first and foremost for the glorification of the Father, so too our liturgy, principally the Mass, must be directed first and foremost to the cultus divinus, the pleasing and acceptable worship of God for his own sake—­propter magnam gloriam tuam, as we pray in the Gloria—and only secondarily, as a result of that, to our own sanctification and instruction. When the liturgy is transparently adoration and thanksgiving, when it is “man’s incorporation into the cultic glorification of God through Christ,” it can then truly become our healing and our source of community. But if we commit “anthropocentric idolatry” (73) by putting ourselves and our human preoccupations first, we fall prey to “rationalisms and the banality that follow in their wake” (Berger, quoting Ratzinger, 79), yielding ultimately to total desacralization and loss of faith. No perceptive Catholic needs to be told that this idolatry has been tried and found wanting; but many are still wondering what to do next, how to recover balance, sobriety, beauty, after dizzying doses of experimentation.

Today is the feastday of St Martha. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Martha.

Today's New York Times has an article (Desperately Painting the Plague) by Holland Cotter about the Worcester [Massachusetts] Art Museum exhibition Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800.

The Christian Classics Ethereal Library has been a source of classic Christian books in electronic format since prehistoric times (they predate the Wayback Machine). Following a post at Hypotyposeis which went up on June 26, Some New Classics at CCEL, I learned that the CCEL has a number of mp3s on their site.

In 2002, Anne Harris of the Art Department at DePauw University, gave a course in Romanesque Art, and in the Internet Resources page associated with that course is a link to the J.-E Berger Foundation. On its site are pages discussing de la tour's paintings of Mary Magdalene and Christ with St Joseph in the Carpenter's Shop.

Today being a day on which we remember The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, here is the account of these Saints, who fell asleep and awoke to find the world changed. (How I felt after returning to the Church in 1992, having left in 1967 and during that time oblivious to what was going on. These however, finding the world transformed from pagan worhsip to the Church ascendant.)

Today is the feast day of the Mother of the Blessed Virgin, St Anne. No Daily Office excerpting today: the Lessons I usually post here are from a sermon by by St. John of Damascus, with little of historical or biographical interest in them. Readers wanting to go to them nevertheless can find them at St. Anne, Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Instead, I'll post a few items about this day and a painting I particularly enjoy.

Today is the feastday of St James the Greater. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St James the Greater.

Today being the feast of St James the Greater, or the More, from the Medieval Sourcebook, here is the explanation and life of this Saint from Caxton's edition of Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost.

Today's propers in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica X. post Pentecosten.

Oh, if there only were more hours in the day ... I'd have had time to blog about .:{St. Thomas Aquinas triumphs over heresy}:. and would have today time to blog about .:{Illustrations from the Life of St. Thomas Aquinas}:..

Today's main feast is of St Lawrence of Brindisi, with a commemoration of St Praxedes or St Praxedis or St Prassede, of the fourth century or earlier. Not much is known for certain of this Saint, so I've taken the oportunity to instead concentrate on the Church of St Praxedes in Rome, one of the twenty-five original parish churches in Rome, and stational church for Monday in Holy Week. From breviary.net, here is Lesson iii.from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Praxedes.

Today is the feastday of St Jerome Emiliani, another post-Trent or Counter Reformation saint, first a member of the St Cajetan's lay association, the Confraternity of the Divine Love, then in 1534, himself an orphan, founder of the Somascans, or Somaschi or Company of the Servants of the Poor, an association of regular clerics.

Today is the feastday of St Vincent de Paul, another post-Trent or Counter Reformation saint, founder of the Congregation of the Missions, the Congregatio Missionis or Vincentians or Lazarists. Best known for his works of charity and organization of charitable efforts, he also engaged in preaching to the peasants and city-dwellers and training of priests. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Vincent de Paul and some information about the Saint.

Today is the feastday of St Camillus de Lellis, another post-Trent or Counter Reformation saint, founder of the Order of Clerks Regular Ministers of the Sick, the Camillans or Camillians, the Brothers of a Happy Death. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv. v. and vi. from the Divine Office readings for the Feast of St Camillus de Lellis and some information about the Saint, ordained a priest in 1584 by the exiled Thomas Goldwell of St Asaph, the last English bishop of the old hierarchy.

expatica.com and the Mail & Guardian in South Africa have the same article: 600-year-old papal seals found in German latrine and Sensational find in Germany: 600 year-old Papal seals. Boniface IX reigned during the time of the Great Western Schism, Clement VII and Cardinal Pedro de Luna, as Benedict XIII being anti-popes in Avignon then.

From catholichaven.org, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary. The rest is at The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost.

Today's propers in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica VIII. post Pentecosten.

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

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

I wish I were original enough to have come up with that play on words, but it's from Mary's Gardens HomePage, specifically, it's the title of a book reviewed at the Marys' Gardens site: The Liturgy of Flowers In A Mary Garden.

The always interesting MetaFilter points to a few bestiary sites, and I found an interesting item at The Medieval Bestiary: Symbolism of Animals and Birds Represented in English Church Architecture.

Another 'wonderful things' announcement: Rare Book News notes in July 13, 2005: Medieval Manuscripts to Go Online that the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (its full name is 'The College of Corpus Christi and the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cambridge') is being digitized.

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 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost.

Today's propers in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica VIII. post Pentecosten.

I've added a new images gallery, Prayer Cards. Like the other galleries, you can view the images as a slideshow, automatically cycling through the images, without having to click on individual links. Clicking on the link in the right hand side column image galleries brings up the page listing all (now) three galleries here.

In preparing the post on St Elisabeth of Portugal, I stumbled upon a gallery of prayer card images.

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July 8, St Elisabeth, Queen of Portugal, Widow

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

Steve Skojec reports that at the initial traditional Latin Mass with a Spanish sermon in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A., there were more than one thousand faithful in the pews.

Pivot unpatched is vulnerable to the XML-RPC exploit. There's a fix, announced on Pivotlog at XML RPC patch.. Grab the .zip file and overwrite the two .inc files in your /blog/pivot/includes/xmlrpc-1.0.99.2/ directory.

... accused of being nostalgiacs, it was only ... a matter of time ...

On the feast of St Anthony Mary Zacharias, here's some information on the (initially exempt) order he founded with two laymen friends and two priests.

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

At A Tale of Two Portraits, Meredith comments on the juxtaposition of Hans Holbein's portraits of Sir Thomas More and Thomas Cromwell at the Frick in New York City.

... so I delved into two of what the Bookworm mentions in New Tools.

The once-a -month TLM indult at Sacred Heart parish, Dunn, North Carolina, U.S.A., is just over a year old, and Bp F. Joseph Gossman last week approved the request for weekly Masses. Every Sunday TLMs will begin July 31, 2005.

Tomorrow, July 5, 2005, David M. Wallace moves to the Oratory of St Francis de Sales, St Louis, Missouri, U.S.A., for pre-seminary formation in the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. He blogs at Lingulaca - The Journal of a Seminarian.

The excellent site The Catholic Library includes a gallery of some 259 images of Catholic line art. I've grabbed them using Sirobot, put them in a Gallery Project album, much like the album of images of the Solemn High Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

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 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost.

Aristotle A. Esguerra (googling 'Stagyrite' asks me whether I meant 'stargate') on Confessions of a Recovering Choir Director, at Credo in mp3, links to the six Vatican Edition settings. There's also a link to Gregorian Chant on Christus Rex, and that chant page has a link to mp3s for All Masses of the Liturgical Year - Tridentine Rite.