Fr John Zuhlsdorf, Author at Catholic Herald

Fr John Zuhlsdorf

June 08, 2017

‘Lenty, Penty, Crucy, Lucy” is the mnemonic doggerel by which we remember the Ember. The Ember Day observances of the traditional liturgical calendar of the Roman Church fall in Lent, and near Pentecost, the feasts of the Exaltation of the Cross and of St Lucy. These are special days of penance. The Pentecost Ember Days

Briefly noted

June 01, 2017

World Without End by Thomas Keating OCSO (Bloomsbury, £10.99). The author, an American Trappist and well-known exponent of contemplative prayer, has collaborated with Lucette Verboven in answering questions about his formative years, his time as an abbot, Vatican II and suffering and prayer, among other topics. The book is illustrated by many black and white

Omnium Gatherum

June 01, 2017

Dom Prosper Guéranger, in The Liturgical Year, looks at the discourse of Peter at the Pentecost event. The multitudes had gathered for the Jewish Pentecost, the Spirit descended upon the Apostles and then the others. Peter began to speak. All understood him in their own languages, a proof of divine inspiration. Guéranger compares Peter to

Omnium Gatherum

May 25, 2017

Pius XII wrote of Our Blessed Mother: “Let all Christians, therefore, glory in being subjects of the Virgin Mother of God, who, while wielding royal power, is on fire with a mother’s love.” In the Extraordinary Form of the Roman liturgical calendar, May 31 is the feast of the Queenship of Mary. In the Novus

Omnium Gatherum

May 18, 2017

My favourite images of the Ascension of the Lord, celebrated on Thursday for at least 16 centuries – Thursday, not Sunday – are those charming medieval illuminations wherein the astonished Apostles gaze with Mary upward at the last glimpse of Our Lord’s feet just as they disappear into the cloud of heavenly glory. Benedict XVI

Omnium Gatherum

May 11, 2017

Our Lord said, “When it is evening, you say, it will be fair weather, for the sky is red. And in the morning: today there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of

Omnium Gatherum

May 04, 2017

In the traditional Roman calendar, May 9 is the feast of a great Doctor of the Church, St Gregory of Nazianzus (d 389 – also known as Gregory Nazianzen). In the newer calendar he is fêted on January 2. The Orthodox, who rightly call him Gregory the Theologian, and various Protestants honour him on other

Omnium Gatherum

April 27, 2017

The mighty foe of Arians, St Athanasius of Alexandria (d 373), bishop and Doctor of the Church, is celebrated on May 2 in both the newer and the traditional Roman calendars. In his struggles to defend Catholic truth, Athanasius took on gangs of heretics, bishops and emperors. For his efforts he was rewarded with exile

Omnium Gatherum

April 20, 2017

The Church’s liturgical year proffers rich treasures in its cycles and practices. With Easter our Alleluias once again ring out. In the Latin Church we experience a monumental shift of tone in our rites. We change from sober violet (and black) vestments to our festive white and gold. Abundant flowers again grace our altars. The penance

Omnium Gatherum

April 13, 2017

Having completed our 40-day Lenten observance, with its good Confession and penances, we come to the liturgical year’s zenith, Easter Sunday. Without the stark, penitential season of Lent, we do not see the true splendour of Easter. There is an adage among musicians and actors: “Everything is nothing.” That is to say, when the volume

Omnium Gatherum

April 06, 2017

We enter on Palm Sunday the last throes of Holy Church’s liturgical glory and self-emptying before her death during the Sacred Triduum and her resurrection at Easter. The Church, liturgically and sacramentally, goes with Christ in procession to Jerusalem to fulfil His saving mission. When we participate in these rites, we truly participate in the

Omnium Gatherum

March 30, 2017

With the Fifth Sunday of Lent, we of the Roman Church enter into Passiontide. Since time immemorial it has been called 1st Passion Sunday. During the last two weeks of Lent, Holy Church’s liturgical dying speeds up. Motus in fine velocior. In the traditional calendar, we began liturgically to slow down and die on Septuagesima

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