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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Commemoration of All Hallows Eve

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Today used to be the Vigil of All Saints (aka Halloween), a night when traditionally the veil between Earth and purgatory thinned, the dead...
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Friday, October 29, 2010

Saying the Office of the Dead

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We are rapidly coming up to the month of November, traditionally a month when we especially remember and pray for the dead.  And in the Ch...
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Gueranger's Manual for Oblates - Part II: Chapter One

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I previously posted the  introduction to this Manual by Dom Gueranger, and translated into English by an anonymous secular priest.  Here no...
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Thursday, October 28, 2010

History of the Roman Office

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The New Liturgical Movement website has just published the latest in its excellent series on the history of the Roman Office since 1568 by G...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Dom Gueranger on Oblates - Part I

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I recently came across a  Manual for Oblates written by Dom Gueranger, the founder of the Monastery of Solesmes in the nineteenth century, ...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Collect for the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost

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Fr Zulsdorf's usual interesting and helpful analysis of this week's collect is available over at his blog .  Fr Z argues that the co...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

SS Maurus and Placid OSB: October 5

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SS Maurus and Placid were both offered to St Benedict as child oblates, to be brought up in monastic life, at the same time.  St Gregory...