Liturgy… Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Easter Saturday 26 Apr 202525 Apr 2025 Easter Saturday: Missa "Edúxit Dóminus" The conclusion today of the baptismal celebrations calls the neophytes together again in the Lateran Basilica beside the font in which on Easter Eve they were…
Liturgy… Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Easter Friday 25 Apr 202524 Apr 2025 Easter Friday: Missa "Edúxit eos Dóminus" In the Seventh Century the Roman Pantheon was dedicated to St. Mary and the heroic sons of the Roman Church, who had suffered martyrdom. The…
Liturgy… Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Easter Thursday 24 Apr 202524 Apr 2025 Easter Thursday: Missa "Victricem" Station at the Church of the Twelve Apostles in Rome. Under the high altar of this church are preserved the relics of the Apostles Philip and James…
Liturgy… Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Easter Wednesday 23 Apr 202523 Apr 2025 Easter Wednesday: Missa "Venite, benedicti" Station at the St. Laurence-Without-the-Walls. Today we honor St. Lawrence, the Cross-bearer of the Roman Church, to express our gratitude for the favor shown by him…
Liturgy… Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Easter Tuesday 22 Apr 2025 Easter Tuesday: Missa "Aqua sapiéntiæ potávit" Station at the St. Paul-Outside-the-Walls. After visiting St. Peter's, it was fitting that the neophytes should at once be brought to the Doctor of the Gentiles,…
Liturgy… Carissimi; Today’s Mass: Easter Monday 21 Apr 202521 Apr 2025 Easter Monday: Missa "Introduxit vos Dominus" Station at the Basilica of St. Peter's in Rome. This Octave is entirely consecrated to the neophytes. The week was for them a continual feast,…
Lent… Carissimi; Today’s Mass: The Annunciation of the BVM 25 Mar 202524 Mar 2025 In Annuntiatione Beate Mariæ Virgine (holyday of obligation): Missa "Vultum Tuum"This feast, prepared by that of St. Gabriel, recalls the greatest event in history, the Incarnation of our Lord (Gospel)…
Lent… Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Ember Friday in Lent 14 Mar 202515 Mar 2025 Ember Friday in Lent: Missa "De necessitátibús meis eripe me, Dómine" The church built by Pope Mark (337-40) is reckoned among the first erected in Rome. It is possible that the…
Lent… Stational Churches in Lent: A pilgrimage 5 Mar 20255 Mar 2025 Historically, on particular days the faithful of Rome would gather (or collect together) with the pope at a designated church called the ecclesia collecta. After the recitation of a prayer…
Liturgy… Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Feria VI of Septuagesima 21 Feb 202520 Feb 2025 Feria VI of Septuagesima: Missa "Circumdederunt me" Septuagesima Sunday is the third Sunday before the start of Lent, which makes it the ninth Sunday before Easter. Traditionally, Septuagesima Sunday marked…
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