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It is perhaps no accident that Adoremus Bulletin first began publishing in the month and year that the postconciliar Missal was itself celebrating 25 years as the liturgy most familiar to the Western Church. Adoremus was founded to promote authentic reform of the Catholic liturgy in the English-speaking world—and its editors and contributors set about to do just that as they began examining the intricacies, both spiritual and practical, that the new form of the Mass presented to the faithful after its promulgation in 1969-1970.
- Pope Francis tells liturgists to avoid ‘pageantry or prominence’
Pope Francis on Friday urged liturgists to accompany bishops and the faithful communities of their dioceses with humility and discretion. In a Feb. 28 message sent from Gemelli Hospital to liturgy professors and students of the Anselmianum — a pontifical university in Rome associated with the Order of St. Benedict — the Holy Father said… Read more: Pope Francis tells liturgists to avoid ‘pageantry or prominence’ - Elevating Worship: Christendom College Unveils Liturgical Training Program
The “smells and bells” of the Mass have long drawn the faithful into a deeper encounter with the mystery of the Eucharist. “The beauty of the liturgy is part of this mystery; it is a sublime expression of God’s glory and, in a certain sense, a glimpse of heaven on earth,” Benedict XVI wrote in Sacramentum… Read more: Elevating Worship: Christendom College Unveils Liturgical Training Program - Pope pays tribute to Dom Guéranger, a pioneer of modern liturgical revival
Pope Francis pays tribute to the deep liturgical devotion and fidelity to the Church of the Servant of God Dom Prosper-Louis-Pascal Guérange, OSB, the founder of the French Benedictine Congregation of Solesmes marking the 150th anniversary of his death, and encourages all the faithful to embrace his precious legacy. By Lisa Zengarini Pope Francis has… Read more: Pope pays tribute to Dom Guéranger, a pioneer of modern liturgical revival - Vatican walks back Mass obligation guidance
The prefect of the Vatican’s worship office said this week that when days holy days of obligation are transferred on the Church’s liturgical calendar because of conflict with another feast day, the ensuing obligation to go to Mass does not transfer to the new date. The announcement would seem to override a 2024 Vatican letter that created… Read more: Vatican walks back Mass obligation guidance - This Thursday: “From Old Testament to New: The Fundamental Form of the Christian Liturgy” – Joseph Ratzinger’s Spirit of the Liturgy at 25! – A Public Lecture by Rev. Uwe Michael Lang
The Spirit of the Liturgy at 25 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the English translation of Joseph Ratzinger’s landmark book, The Spirit of the Liturgy. To celebrate this significant work and its impact on the life of the Church, the Society for Catholic Liturgy will dedicate its 2025 annual conference to this topic and the liturgical… Read more: This Thursday: “From Old Testament to New: The Fundamental Form of the Christian Liturgy” – Joseph Ratzinger’s <i>Spirit of the Liturgy</i> at 25! – A Public Lecture by Rev. Uwe Michael Lang
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– Pope Pius V
With the first issue of Adoremus arriving in—among other places—rectories, homes, student dorms, and libraries across the English-speaking world, this trio of pioneers began providing the faithful a periodical full of timely and truthful information and analysis on all aspects of the liturgy, with a special focus on how the liturgical revisions called for by the Second Vatican Council to the Church’s sacred body of communal prayer not only responds to contemporary needs but does so in the full resplendence of Catholic tradition.
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