General Instructions

TOP 10 REASONS to Pray the Liturgy of the Hours (in all times and circumstances!)

In the Spring of 2020, we were just beginning to feel the spiritual effects of the COVID lockdowns and restrictions. Churches were...

Holiness of the Richest Kind

In the document Lumen Gentium, we read of the universal call to holiness – “that all the faithful of Christ of whatever rank or status...

TOP 10 REASONS to Pray the Liturgy of the Hours (in a time like this!)

We are living in strange times. I think it is safe to say that very few Catholics in the West would have ever imagined living through a...

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The Unsurpassable Greatness and Glory of the Sacred Liturgy (Part II)

Solemn Vespers of Easter, London Oratory (newliturgicalmovement.org) In our first post, we established how it is through the Mass that...

Guéranger and The Restoration of the Office

In the preface to his monumental work, The Liturgical Year (1841), Dom Prosper Guéranger speaks of the supernatural quality of the...

The Praise of All Saints

On this Solemnity of All Saints, we do well to remember that the Sacred Liturgy has as one of its primary aims to join all of us to the...

The Liturgy of the Hours: A Public and Communal Prayer

The General Instructions on the Liturgy of the Hours state very clearly that the Liturgy of the Hours is not a “private function,” but...