“Ite, Missa Est” • What Does That Actually Mean?
Bishop Ambo’s assertion that Mass was attended—for centuries—by a single woman (and nobody else) is bizarre.
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Rev Fr Adrian Fortescue Liturgy
Must We “Love” All Gregorian Chant?
Where “Parce Dómine” (the famous song for Lent) came from.
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PDF Download • “Hymn for the Feast of All Saints” (Released for the First Time in History!)
“Each day Father Knox would write for his students a Latin poem describing events of the previous day.” —Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
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“Seventy-Three (73) Changes” • Which Pope Pius XII Made to Holy Week
If we feel compelled to condemn these changes, let’s at least spend time learning what they are!
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Eleven (11) Rare Lenten Hymns You’ve Not Sung!
“Our hymnbooks know nothing of such a treasure as this, and give us pages of poor sentiment in doggerel lines by some tenth-rate modern versifier.” —Father Fortescue
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Sequence For Martin Luther? • (Sung to the melody of “Victimae Paschali Laudes”)
Dr. Luca Ricossa has made a YouTube recording of this Sequence!
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“Victimæ Paschali Laudes” • Nineteen (19) Organ Accompaniments
Including a remarkable musical setting by Father Adrian Fortescue (d. 1923).
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Cardinal Schönborn Consecrates “IKEA Altar”
When Father Fortescue was diagnosed with cancer, he was seen to kiss devoutly the Altar on which he had so frequently celebrated Mass before going to the hospital to die.
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Father Adrian Fortescue on the “Agnus Dei”
Speaking about the AGNUS DEI, Father Fortescue wrote: “Agnus as a vocative is curious, evidently in order to reproduce the original text (John 1:29) exactly.” [Altera die vidit Joannes Jesum venientem ad se, et ait: Ecce agnus Dei, ecce qui tollit peccatum mundi.] Father Fortescue, as usual, is correct; but in some medieval manuscripts you […]
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The Only Hymn Father Fortescue Ever Wrote
…including a “Sneak Peek” at the Brébeuf Hymnal.
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“Veni Creator Spiritus” • with Fortescue’s English Translation
A plenary indulgence can be gained by singing the “Veni Creator Spiritus” publicly on New Year’s Day.
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PDF • “The Book of Ceremonies” (629 pages)
By Rev. Laurence J. O’Connell, and *published in English* in 1943.
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Rev’d Fr. Adrian Fortescue (1874-1923)
At the time of his death, Fortescue was Professor of Church History at St. Edmund’s College, Ware—the oldest Catholic school in England.
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Video • Disrespect For God’s House
Is Consecration by the words of Institution “de fide” ??
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“Veni Creator Spiritus” • With An English Translation By Fr. Adrian Fortescue
A plenary indulgence can be gained by singing the “Veni Creator Spiritus” publicly on Pentecost.
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