The Catacombs: December 2012

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Chant! Chant! Chant!

“To recover the great treasure which the Tradition of the Church gave to us, it is necessary to begin with Gregorian chant, which is capable of communicating to the people of God the sense of Catholicity and to guide it towards a correct inculturation."

So saith Benedictine Abbot Michael Zielinski, the new appointee to the new office on liturgical arts at the Vatican.

Read about it here.

THE ROMAN CATACOMBS

What began as Jewish and then Christian cemeteries, later became temporary places where "The Lord's Supper" or the "Sacrifice" were conducted, and still later became shrines and places of pilgrimage.

This blog, dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass, hopes to retain the spirit of the Christian Catacombs, where the early Church revered those who had gone before, filling the tombs with beautiful signs and symbols of Christian art--silent testimony to the faith of early Christians.

Though the catacombs are burial places, the symbols and artifacts point to life. That 'great cloud of witnesses' who have gone before still surround us. We are tied to them through time and eternity in the universal embrace of the Holy Catholic Church.

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Chant! Chant! Chant!

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