Ionarts (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
Verdi, Messa Da Requiem, A. Harteros, S. Ganassi, R. Villazón, R. Pape, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, A. Pappano(released on October 6, 2009)EMI 6 98936 2 | 84'10"Giuseppe Verdi's bombastic but intensely pious setting of the Latin Requiem Mass was the composer's tribute for the first anniversary of the death of the writer Alessandro Manzoni, the author of Italy's...
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Peter Kim reports on the arrival of Father Gregorious de Cespedes with the Japanese invaders in 1593 — The First Mass Celebrated in Korea — and a 1947 "Requiem Mass celebrating the 37th memorial of the patriot Thomas Ahn's dying for country" — Thomas Ahn's Requiem Mass in Hong Kong . Subscribe in a reader
The hermeneutic of continuity (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
On Saturday, Fr Briggs celebrated the annual Requiem Mass for those buried in the graveyard at St Mary's Chislehurst. I was very happy to assist as Deacon for the Mass; the Revd John Harrison, the parish Deacon, acted as subdeacon. Mulier Fortis was there with her camera and took a fine set of pictures which are put together here in a slideshow: I am getting more and more familiar...
Mulier Fortis (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
This afternoon saw the annual Requiem Mass at St. Mary's, Chislehurst, held for the repose of the souls of all those who are buried in the church graveyard. Fr. Charles Briggs, the Parish Priest, was the celebrant, Fr. Tim Finigan was the Deacon, and Rev. John Harrison was Sub-Deacon. I appointed myself photo-czar: Fr. Briggs has complained at the lack of photos when I attended previous...
The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
I apologize for the delay in posting these images of the Solemn Requiem Mass according to the Dominican Rite celebrated at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Seattle WA on All Souls last. It has taken me some time to get them together. This is just a selection from the photographs taken and posted by Mr. Pat Bucy at this photo album . The minsiters for the Mass...
Forest Murmurs (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A report this time from the LMS on the annual Requiem at Westminster cathedral with bishop Alan Hopes. I think it is good that it now seems to be a requirement to be an auxiliary bishop in Westminster that you can and are willing to celebrate the Extraordinary Form. Then I suppose they get farmed out as diocesan bishops and so a diocese gets a bishop ho can celebrate the whole Roman rite which...
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
From a reader comes this TLM notice: St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy Solemn Requiem Mass in Latin The annual Solemn Requiem Mass for deceased members of St Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy and for all the faithful departed will be celebrated at 11 am on Saturday, 28 November 2009 in St. Patrick’s Pro-Cathedral Church, Fermoy, Co. Cork. The...
The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
News came from one of our New York readers of a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the Dead offered in New York City this past All Souls Day at Holy Innocents Church. The celebrant will be familiar to many of you, Bishop James Timlin, formerly ordinary of Scranton, Pennsylvania -- a bishop who supported the FSSP in North America a great deal in their earliest days. Pictures were provided by the Society...
The hermeneutic of continuity (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Eamonn Manning has sent me these photos from the Requiem Mass which was celebrated in the usus antiquior at St Paul's Church in the Falls Road last Saturday: The congregation of about 100 was a good mix of ages (mostly at the back, as is the Irish custom!) The choir sang the propers from the Graduale and Victoria's Requiem for six voices, as well as the motet Versa Est in Luctum...
The New Liturgical Movement (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
I have been collecting a few mailings we have received from (or around) All Souls Day, and I am now delighted to show some of them. St. Mary Magdalen's, Brighton We begin with a priest who will be familiar with you, Fr. Raymond Blake whose All Souls Day pictures I came across on his site . (You will note the unbleached beeswax candles) (The deacon for the Mass was the Rev. Dr. Alcuin Reid)...
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
There is great interest among the faithful in dignified prayer for the dead. A reader sends this: Fr. Dwight Longenecker and Fr. Jay Scott Newman sat in choir as Msgr. Steven Brovey, V.F, pastor of Prince of Peace parish, and head of liturgy for the diocese of Charleston, offered the Traditional Latin Mass on Monday, Nov. 2, [...] Post from: WDTPRS Brick by brick via real Requiem Masses...
What Does The Prayer Really Say? (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Tonight, 6 November, at 6:30 pm, at Guardian Angels Church (193 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street) there will be sung a Solemn Requiem Mass. The sacred ministers will be Fr. Gerald Murray, Pastor of the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, as deacon and Mr. Brian Graebe, seminarian for the New York Archdiocese, as subdeacon. Your [...] Post from: WDTPRS 6 Nov - NYC - Solemn TLM Requiem - Guardian...
The Jobbing Doctor (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... such depth in them. They will be familiar to music lovers as being part of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem. The War Requiem continues to divide people about its greatness, but I am convinced that it is a really great piece of music, and drama. Britten's understanding of the words of the Requiem mass is extraordinary ('Lacrimosa' as sung by Galina Vishnyevskaya is a highlight),...
Ben's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
... to say she had died: stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in the liver and possibly the spinal column. Requiem mass sung this morning in the chapel at Magdalen. Good grief, if I was doing a reading at my wife's memorial service I couldn't possibly be as dignified and calm as Tim was, reading a passage from Julian of Norwich in which she saw God hosting a banquet for all the honoured souls...
A Catholic Life (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Today is the Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls) This feast, dating back to the 11th Century, is a time to remember all of the faithfully depart and pray that they are now in the grace of God. God certainly is Love and He is mercy. The only thing we can do is trust in Him and pray for our loved ones. In the middle of the 11th century, St. Odilo, the abbot of Cluny (France), said...
