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A Gregorian Chant Day will be held at Sacred Heart Church, Wimbledon, on Saturday 12 October 2024, under the auspices of the Schola Gregoriana. It will run from 10.45 a.m to 6.10 p.m., culminating in…

Fr Guy Nicholls, the Vice-Chairman of the Association, long standing member, and who is working on the simplification of chants for the Graduale Parvum, celebrated the 40th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood on…

Please see details of this open meeting, which will be held at Cambridge, on our Meetings page.

The launch on 21 April was followed by Mass of Our Lady, celebrated by Archbishop Bernard Longley, with Bishop Hopes, Chairman of the bishops’ Liturgy Committee, concelebrating, and using settings of the propers of the…

The bishops of England and Wales have announced a National Eucharistic Pilgrimage and Congress, to be held 7 – 9 September 2018 in Liverpool. The last International Eucharistic Congress in England was held in 1908…

The School of the Annunciation at Buckfast Abbey is running a four-day course in Ecclesiastical Latin from the evening of Thursday 12th October to Sunday lunchtime 15th October. Students may register for this four-day course,…

Review of CD: Compline – In manus tuas The Benedictine Nuns of St Cecilia’s Abbey, Ryde Price £7 each, plus £1.50 p & p (for up to four CDs). Cheques payable to St Cecilia’s Abbey.…

There’s an interesting article at: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/09/relics-of-pope-st-pius-x.html?m=1

To take this up, go to http://gregorian-chant-hymns.com/.

Our French colleagues, L’Association pro Liturgia, now provide a daily commentary. Go to http://www.proliturgia.org/, then ‘Actualites’.

The News in Latin is still going strong on Radio Finland: you can listen as you follow the text on the screen! Go to https://areena.yle.fi/1-1931339

Cardinal Sarah, the Vatican’s liturgical chief, has previously pointed out that the Second Vatican Council never asked for the rejection of the past and the abandonment of the Mass of Saint Pius V, that formed…

For information about the conference from 6 to 9 June this year, click here. Full details will be released on that website when the conference programme is published after Easter.

“On the Solemnity of the Annunciation, our friend Brother Oliver of the Oxford Oratory was ordained to the diaconate. The Abbot attended with Dom Michael, and our Dom Stanislaus joined Br Benedict of the Oratory…

Fr Guy Nicholls, Musical Director of The Blessed John Henry Newman Institute for Liturgical Music, tells us that the latest Graduale Parvum introits for Lent are now available as mp3 files here. Fr Guy hopes…

Our Benedictine friends at Pluscarden Abbey in Scotland are inviting young people (aged 18-30) to celebrate the Liturgy with them from April 12 to 17 – the Wednesday of Holy Week until Easter. Check their…

Our American colleagues of the USA Latin Liturgy Association have just brought out their Newsletter No. CXVII. Amongst other things, it contains a short but interesting article on Pope Francis and the Liturgy. You need…

If you are able to read Dutch, you will be able to enjoy the website of the Vereniging voor Latijnse Liturgie. Its members are our counterparts in Holland, who set up their Association at about…

The Association had an excellent day of liturgies, discussions and socialising at St Mary Moorfields in the City of London, by kind permission of its new Parish Priest, Fr Christopher Vipers. The day began at…

Visitors to this website might be interested to read an interview regarding Latin produced by Zenit. Click here for details.

Pope Benedict XVI, in 2007 issued an Apostolic Letter motu proprio under the title Summorum Pontificum together with a note which explains: “The fundamental provision is as follows: the Roman liturgy will have two forms: The ordinary form is…

To accompany his motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, which was “the fruit of much reflection, numerous consultations and prayer”, Pope Benedict addressed an explanatory letter to all the bishops of the world. He says he was…

The motu proprio begins with the words: Summorum Pontificum cura ad hoc tempus usque semper fuit (“up to the present time it has always been the concern of the supreme pontiffs …”). The document traces…

The Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis – the “Post-Synodal Exhortation on the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of the Church’s Life and Mission”, was released on 13th March 2007. The full English text is reproduced on this website,…