Last year, I posted Today is Quasimodo Sunday and part of Dom Guéranger's commentary, at Quasimodo or Low Sunday.

The Introit, Alleluias, Offertory and Communion in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded from or listened to at Dominica in Albis.

Doubting Thomas' words from the Gospel for the day sum up my attitude towards all the rumors and hubbub about that document acknowledging that any priest may use the 1962 Missal:

Nisi videro in manibus ejus fixuram clavorum, et mittam digitum meum in locum clavorum, et mittam manum meam in latus ejus non credam.

Yep, non credam.

Daniel Mitsui's post of the same name reminded me that Vatican Radio's Good Friday English broadcast had a segment on the Dream. Looking through the archives there, I see that they only keep one week's programs. So, I used audacity to edit the copy I had saved, and make that edited copy available here for download and listening.

An extensive list of links to, among other things, a 1474 Missale Romanum, a 1525 Missale Coloniense (Cologne, Germany, Missal), Missale Bracarense (Braga Missal), Missale ad Usum ad insignis Sarum (Sarum Missal), Exeter Missal, and Stowe, Ireland, Missal, can be found in this reply on the Free Republic site. Most of the Missals are in .pdf format. I haven't had the time yet to go through the linked files.

The indult Mass this Sunday (Easter), at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, in Dunn, North Carolina, will be at 4 p.m.

The SSPX Triduum will be at St Anthony of Padua, in Mt Holly (near Charlotte), and Easter Sunday confessions and Masses are at Holy Redeemer in Wake Forest and Old St Mary's in Goldsboro, as follows:

• Tomorrow, Holy Thursday, April 13, confessions 5:30 p.m. to 6:45 p.m., and Solemn Mass of the Last Supper at 7:00 p.m.
• Good Friday, April 14, confessions 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
• Good Friday, April 14, Way of the Cross, 2:00 p.m.
• Good Friday, April 14, Mass of the Presanctified, 3:00 p.m.
• Holy Saturday, April 15, confessions 7:30 p.m.
• Holy Saturday, April 15, ceremonies of the Paschal Vigil, 9:45 p.m.
• Holy Saturday, April 15, Mass of the Paschal Vigil, midnight
• Easter, April 16, at the Wake Forest chapel (near Raleigh), confessions 10:45 a.m.
• Easter, April 16, at the Wake Forest chapel (near Raleigh), Low Mass, 11:30 a.m.
• Easter, April 16, at the Goldsboro chapel, confessions 4:45 p.m.
• Easter, April 16, at the Goldsboro chapel, Low Mass, 5:30 p.m.

Directions to Sacred Heart are here, and addresses for the SSPX chapels are here.

UPDATE: Sacred Heart Church in Dunn will offer a TLM tonight, Holy Thursday, at 6:30 p.m., and a Mass of the Presanctified tomorrow, April 14, at 3:00 p.m.

St Isidore Church, the SSPX chapel in Watkins, Colorado, U.S.A. (near Denver), hosted a conference by Bp Bernard Fellay on February 19, 2006, and the kind folks there have made the conference available for free download in mp3 file format. Internet Explorer users should go here, and if you use Firefox, Opera or another non-Microsoft browser, you can download the files here. The conference is split into thirteen separate files, which should benefit folks on a dial up link.

That's a quote from Romano Guardini, describing the laity at Monreale in Sicily, at the cathedral in Holy Week, 1929.

Almost no one was reading, almost no one stooped over in private prayer. Everyone was watching.

The sacred ceremony lasted for more than four hours, but the participation was always lively. There are different means of prayerful participation. One is realized by listening, speaking, gesturing. But the other takes place through watching. The first way is a good one, and we northern Europeans know no other. But we have lost something that was still there at Monreale: the capacity for living-in-the-gaze, for resting in the act of seeing, for welcoming the sacred in the form and event, by contemplating them.

Sandro Magister's www.chiesa newsletter has more, at “Holy Week at Monreale,” the Author: Romano Guardini. An image of the cathedral interior is below the break.

Prof Philip Blosser's post "Then it became clear to me what the foundation of real liturgical piety is ..." has a link to The Monreale Cathedral - " the most beautiful Temple of the world ", which is worth viewing.

Or perhaps April 18, Pope Julius II laid the foundation stone of the new St Peter's Basilica. Initial plans were by Donato Bramante. He died in 1514 and Pope Leo X named Raphael as his replacement. Images from Rome. St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican Belvedere at the Time of Donato Bramante are below the break.

The Vatican is having a conference on April 20th next: Avviso di Conferenza Stampa.

That's quoting Mgr Ronald Knox, from The Belief of Catholics. It came to mind when reading Ephraem's post Another Miracle at Lourdes or "It's the demographics, stupid!", concerning French Mass attendance statistics at SSPX chapels versus churches with the new Mass. The full quote is

If we were really growing more religious, should not at least the gleanings of that harvest tell upon the statistics of organized religion? On default of the gleanings, who will convince us of the harvest?

Ephraem says that the 2005 Guide to the Catholic Church in France (not available on the 'net, AFAIK) shows that

Of traditionalist congregations 90% are less than 55 yo and their average age is 26. Scariest [depending on your perspective - mike] of all is that 70% of traditionalist families have four or more children. This is more or less an age pyramid with a broad base and a small peak (11% over 56 yo). The usual Novus Ordo congregation has an inverted age pyramid with the bulk of the congregation over 55 yo.

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Palm Sunday, from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger, mp3s of Antiphons, Procedamus, Hymn, Responsorium, Tract, Offertory and Communion, and images illustrating the Gospel

From my ScrapBook grab of the old catholichaven.org site, here is Dom Guéranger's commentary for Palm Sunday. The Antiphons, Procedamus, Hymn, Responsorium, Tract, Offertory and Communion in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded from or listened to at Dominica in Palmis. Images follow Dom Guéranger;'s commentary. Fr Novak drew on the commentary in his talk yesterday at Holy Redeemer chapel, before Mass.

Kyriale Romanum: Free Download, at the Church Music Association of America's blog, MusicaSacra.com, alerts us to a beautifully produced .pdf format version of the Kyriale, on Bonn's Tridentine Mass site, Tridentinische Messe Bonn.

The direct link to the file is here. Images of the Vidi aquam pages are below the break.

Ephraem solves the mystery of the Vatican's silence about yesterday's meeting: it's Lent. Universal Indult Cocktail

Anyone wishing to kick my shins, throw brickbats, or otherwise let me know how much this blog has meant to them, note that I'll be ushering at the 4 p.m. traditional Latin Mass at Sacred Heart Church in Dunn, North Carolina today, Sunday, April 2, and again on April 16 (Easter) and April 30. The tradition of male-only ushers dates back to at least the Age of the Catacombs, and most likely to the apostles.