Oriens Journal

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The Reform of Holy Week in the Years 1951-1956

In October of 1949 at the Congregation of Rites, a liturgical commission was named which... was to study whether eventual reforms ...

On the Restoration and Promotion of the Traditional Mass

To the great dismay and frustration of Traditionalists, who rightly see the Mass as the heart of the Body of ...

At the Summit is the Embrace in Havana, but at the Base Unity is Far Away

The Orthodox would rightly point to the dilution and tendency towards banality in the modern Catholic liturgical texts. The Orthodox ...

A Salutary Corrective in Scalia’s Funeral

Fr Pilon's excellent report from The Catholic Thing provides a historical perspective on some of the trends in modern Catholic ...

A Miracle of Liturgical Art: The Church of the Protection of the Mother of God at Yasenevo

The marble iconostasis bears jewel-like icons with a powerful Romanesque gravity. It is a vision of medieval splendor the likes ...