Here we present the ancient Mozarabic ritual for Palm Sunday, taken from the Missale Mixtum (here, by comparison is the post-revision Mozar...

Doubtless non-Catholics (and some Catholics, as well) would have heard of the so-called Garden Tomb in Jerusalem. First proposed as the act...

Astute readers may notice that I have only put up the readings up to the Third Sunday of Lent. It's just that 'real life' had ca...

1.) OLD ROMAN LECTIONARY Introit (Ps. 42 [43]:1-2a, 3) Judge me, O God, and defend my cause against an unholy nation; deliver me from the un...

1.) OLD ROMAN LECTIONARY Introit (Ps. 44:13, 15, 16, 2 [45:14, 16, 17; 3]) All the rich men of the people will entreat your countenance; aft...

1.) OLD ROMAN LECTIONARY Introit (cf. Isaiah 66:10, 11; Ps. 121 [122]:1) Rejoice, Jerusalem, and come together all you that love her; rejoi...

1.) OLD ROMAN LECTIONARY Introit (Ps. 24 [25]:15, 16; 1, 2) My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for He will pluck my feet out from a net; turn...

Peregrinus expectavi pedes meos in cymbalis . A silly (when translated) and grammatically-incorrect nonsense Latin phrase which the compose...

1.) OLD ROMAN LECTIONARY Introit (Ps. 24:6, 3, 22; 1, 2) Remember, O LORD, your mercies and your steadfast love, for they are from of old. D...

1.) OLD ROMAN LECTIONARY Introit (Ps. 90 [91]:15a, 16, 1) He will call out to me, and I will hear him; I will deliver him and glorify him; I...

1.) OLD ROMAN LECTIONARY Introit (Wisdom 11:24, 25, 27; Psalm 56:2 [57:1]) You have mercy upon all, O Lord, and loathe nothing that you have...