Sundays
Is it Sunday? It's Sunday! Savoring the dawning day as if speaking to no one in particular, enjoying a hearty breakfast, it's a day of celebration, let's not forget...
Category: Liturgy
Prayer, every morning of the world.
What a marvel these senses are, all these visual, tactile, auditory, gustatory, or olfactory impressions return and form memory, where the...
What is the problem with Paul VI's mass?
More than fifty years ago, the Catholic Church adopted a new Mass that broke with the tradition of the Church in an unprecedented way...
Letter to Pope Francis regarding the Mass
Preamble This letter to Pope Francis was initially written for La Voie Romaine 1 to bear witness to the beauty and efficacy of the traditional rite...
Gregorian chant
It was in June 1985, in Pont-à-Mousson, at the end of the symposium "Music in the Church Today." Maurice Fleuret—may he rest in peace...
The Pump by Clive Staples Lewis
“First, you must rid yourself of this nauseating idea, born of a complex manifesto of inferiority and a worldly mind, that pomp, in the...
Lauda Sion
A magnificent sequence in the Mass of Corpus Christi, written by Saint Thomas Aquinas, this dogmatic poem praises the new and true Zion, the Church.
Pentecostal Happiness
One of the joys of the Octave of Pentecost lies in the recitation of the Veni, Sancte Spiritus, following the recitation of the Victimae Paschali during Easter week, the...
Prayer of the craftsman
12th-century monastic prayer: Teach me, Lord, to make good use of the time You give me for work… Teach me to combine haste and slowness….
From tradition…
“We are dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; we see more and farther than they do; not that our gaze is sharp, nor our stature great, but…”.
Gregorian chant is intended for the liturgy
Excerpt from "The Holy Mass, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow," quote from Mr. Dominique Ponnau, Director of the École du Louvre, Conference given at...
Christian Testimony – 2
When I started this blog, the idea of writing about liturgy came to me very quickly. Not to claim the status of a specialist...
The abandonment of Benedict XVI
“Eli, Eli lama sabachthani?” 1 When Benedict XVI signified, in a few simple words, that he was renouncing the office of pope, it was a trembling of...
Christian testimony
When I started this blog, the idea of writing about liturgy came to me very quickly. Not to claim the status of a specialist...