News from Nowhere 8

A new issue of Latin Liturgy is out this month, and my "News from Nowhere" column is concerned with liturgy-related videos online. I shall embed some videos in this post, for your convenience, and provide links to other web pages mentioned in the article. N.B. Some of these links play videos automatically, so have your volume turned down if you don't want to startle your colleagues/upset the librarian/wake the cat up.

Steve George's chant training video series is explained here.

An example:



(A video of "Video caelos"; see what i did there?)

Cf. Marek Klein's "Graduale Project".

Example:



Although I mention it a little later in the article, this is also a good place to link to the chant videos from Corpus Christi Watershed.

Example:

Lent - Third Sunday: Introit Oculi Mei from Corpus Christi Watershed on Vimeo.

Jeremy de Satgé's 2010 talk to the Latin Liturgy Association (USA):



The National Trust's short film about the Lyme Park Missal:



A post on the New Liturgical Movement blog about this film clip from Christmas Holiday (1944):



The opening titles of True Confessions (1981):



Elvis sings the Offertory in Change of Habit (1969):



The Vatican channel on Youtube.

The PapalMusic channel; and an example of it what it provides:



A series of short films about the Birmingham Oratory.

A video about the Gregorian Chant Network's annual course:



(The GCN has a blog too.)

The Picard music collection put online by "Firminus". (These fascinating recordings were being circulated on cassette tapes, like pop bootlegs, when I first heard them nearly twenty years ago. The internet does make some things so much easier!)

The British Pathé archive website, which includes footage of the consecration of Downside Abbey church (1935); the coronation of Pope Paul VI (1963); and Mass in the trenches.

The Greek Divine Liturgy at the monastery of Veljusa, Macedonia:



A blog post by Fr Simon Henry including some films made at Ushaw College in the 1960s, including Midnight Mass (1962):



Another Christmas Mass (2008) from Notre Dame de Paris:



And a final reminder: Latin Liturgy is the journal of the Association for Latin Liturgy. It is free to members; join today! And please visit and "like" our Facebook page, as over 1100 people have done already.

News from Nowhere 7

The latest and very excellent issue of Latin Liturgy just came through the door. My "News from Nowhere" column mentions various webpages, which you can access by clicking on the links below:

the official Vatican website;

the motu proprio "Summorum pontificum" - in English;

essays on liturgical subjects from the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff;

the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales;

the Liturgy Office of the Bishops' Conference;

the Resources page;

the General Instruction on the Roman Missal;

the General Instruction on the Liturgy of the Hours;

introduction to the Rite of Confirmation;

introduction to Church Dedication;

Order of Christian Funerals - General Introduction;

the liturgical calendar (Ordinary Form);

the liturgical calendar (Extraordinary Form);

dates of moveable feasts;

excerpts from the chant booklet Jubilate Deo;

guide to music for Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament;

traditional prayers;

links page;

Celebrating the Mass (2005) - of historical interest only;

the Roman Missal website;

Latin texts for composers;

bookmark with text of the interpolation of St Joseph into the Latin Eucharistic Prayers;

list of participation aids;

the Association for Latin Liturgy's own website;

and the Association's new Facebook page.

I hope these links are useful. Latin Liturgy is the journal of the Association for Latin Liturgy and is sent free to all members. Join today!

News from Nowhere 6

In my latest "News from Nowhere" column for Latin Liturgy, I track the discussion about the "reform of the reform" that followed from this blogpost: Thomas Kocik, "Reforming the Irreformable?", New Liturgical Movement.

I cite the following texts:

Fr Kocik's book, The Reform of the Reform?;

his paper "The 'Reform of the Reform' in Broad Context", Usus Antiquior 3.2 (July 2012), 102-14;

Hugh Somerville-Knapman, "The Lament of a Liturgical Loner", Dominus mihi adjutor;

Mark Daniel Kirby, "Let Nothing be Preferred to the Work of God", Vultus Christi;

the same blogger's "Home from the Liturgical Thirty Years War";

Cardinal Ratzinger's letter to Heinz-Lothar Barth in 2003;

Bishop Peter J. Elliott, "Reform of the Reform - Not Impossible", New Liturgical Movement;

Christopher Smith, "Is the Reform of the Reform Dead?", Chant Café;

Richard G. Cipolla, "The End of the 'Reform of the Reform'", Rorate Caeli;

Peter Kwasniewski, "Clarifications on the Reform of the Reform Controversy", New Liturgical Movement;

Joseph Shaw, "The Death of the Reform of the Reform?" Part I, LMS Chairman's Blog, and Part II, Part III, Part IV and Part V.