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Quasimodo Sunday, 2006

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.

The Dream of the Rood

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.

Pre-1570 Missals on the 'net

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.

'Everyone was watching'

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.

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On this date April 11, 1506

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.

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Kyriale Romanum, free download

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.

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Party like it's 1570

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

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