The Latin Mass Society's Residential Latin Course is an under appreciated event. It has benefitted teenagers and octagenarians, priests, seminarians, and novices, and the discount for clergy i...
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Latin questions in the end of school quiz. I've not had time to blog about the August events I've been involved, but here are a few photos of the first of these: the St Catherine's Trust Summ...
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The next season of Iota Unum talks is confirmed: Friday Sept 27, JOSEPH SHAW: The family and Catholic culture Friday Oct 25, CALUM MILLER: title tbc Friday Nov 29: PROF TOM PINK 'Conscie...
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The liturgical reform ushered in by the Second Vatican Council was not a matter of replacing the 1962 Missale Romanum with the 1969 edition. Between the two there was a veritable blizzard of do...
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Brand new Altar Rails at St Mary Magdalen's, Wandworth (London), replacing those destroyed many years ago. My latest on Catholic Answers. Pope St. John Paul II wrote twenty-one years ago, ...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/07/the-way-of-beauty-in-catholic-answers.html
On Sunday 14th I had the privilege to attend Mass in the Lawside Convent in Dundee. Different parts of the complex now house the Marian Franciscan Friars and Sisters. Mass was celebrated by F...
The other day I had a live conversation with Diego of @latinedisce Learn Latin, on a Twitter 'space'. @latinedisce promotes Latin, and has created free online resources to learn it. This was a...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/07/conversation-with-learn-latin.html
Annual General Meeting are notoriously dull but the Latin Mass Society's are a bit different, and this year's was rather fun. It took place on the feast of SS Peter & Paul on 29th June; things...
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My latest in the Catholic Herald. Sir James MacMillan, Catholic , published on 3rd July in a British newspaper, The Times, calling on Pope Francis not to impose fresh restrictions on the Tr...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/07/two-more-petitions-to-save-traditional.html
The Latin Mass Society's Annual Requiem in 2023, in Corpus Christi Maiden Lane This post is to gather together links to materials on this subject. You can see the petition and signatories h...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/07/48-public-figures-support-traditional.html
George Galloway: Official photo from the UK Parliament Cross-posted from Rorate Caeli. George Galloway, the radical left-wing politician vying for Muslim votes in Britain's current general ...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/06/george-galloway-on-traditional-mass.html
The Kiss of Peace at the LMS Walsingham Pilgrimage 2023: High Mass in the Shrine The Pax, the Kiss of Peace, is one of my favourite ceremonies of High Mass: one of the most dramatic and easil...
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The Latin Mass Society offers 80% discounts to clerics, seminarians, and those about to enter seminary (trainee permanent deacons too!), if they are based in or come from England and Wales, to...
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Men outnumber women at the LMS Walsingham Pilgrimage: sign up here ! My latest pieces for Catholic Answers is about the alarming typical imbalance between men and women at Mass in the West. I...
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I think special credit is due when a procession takes place in the rain. This one was onthe feast of Corpus Christi, last Thursday, at SS Gregory & Augustine's, Oxford. After the process...
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Three priests of the Archdiocese of Westminster take part in a High Mass for Pentecost Monday in Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, in London. My latest on 1Peter5. It begins: In the new editi...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/05/an-ordinariate-for-traditionalists.html
Dan Hitchens gave a talk to the Latin Mass Society's series of talks, 'Iota Unum'. He spoke about the remarkable religious sister, Clare Crockett, who hailed from Northern Ireland and died in ...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/05/dan-hitchens-on-sister-clare-crocket.html
For the 20th Anniversary of the foundation of Juventutem International. The celebrant was Fr Armand de Malleray FSSP, the Chaplain; the deacon was Fr Henry Whisenant, and subdeacon Fr Neil Bre...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/05/happy-20th-birthday-juventutem.html
The Latin Mass Society is pleased to announce that on Wednesday 29th May a Requiem Mass will be celebrated for the late Fr John Hunwicke, roughly a month after his death on 30th April 2024, in L...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/05/fr-john-hunwicke-months-mind-requiem.html
Bishop Sherrington giving Benediction at the LMS Confirmations in 2019, St James' Spanish Place. The Latin Mass Society calls for a Novena in honour of Corpus Christi We appeal to our m...
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The Good Friday 'Intercessions' in 2023, in St Mary Moorfields, London. In the Evening Prayer of the 1974 Liturgy of the Hours, on Easter Sunday and throughout its octave, and then again on t...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/05/praying-for-conversion-of-jews.html
A splendid High Mass took place in SS Gregory & Augustine's in Oxford for the Ascension. The celebrant was the Priest in Charge, Fr John Saward, assisted by Rev. James Forde-Johnson (as deacon...
http://www.lmschairman.org/2024/05/ascension-day-high-mass-in-oxford.html
I discussed the book I edited, 'A Defence of Monarchy: Catholics under a Protestant King ' on Fr Calvin Robinson's 'Common Sense Crusade' show. This is the segment which Calvin has shared on his ...
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On Monday I attended the regular Mass organaised by the Latin Mass Society in Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane. It was a Rogation Mass, and for the first time (as far as I know) we had the Rogation...
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Kingsley Lewis was the Latin Mass Society's Local Representative in Cardiff for many years. He was also a member of the Committee (a Trustee) of the Society, and from 2008 to 2011 he was Deputy ...