Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

Jeffrey Tucker has announced this on The New Liturgical Movement . The article by James Rygelski, is carried in the St. Louis Review Online , the weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Louis . Here is a snippet: Archbishop Raymond L. Burke is announcing through a memo sent to all parishes today, April 4, the appointment of Father Samuel A. Weber, OSB, as the institute’s first director. Father Weber is a professor in the divinity school of Wake Forest University in North Carolina and also a monk of the St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana. He has "a wide experience of pastoral work and teaching," the archbishop stated in his memo. Superb news . Read it all here !

I saw this story on the New Liturgical Movement and Jeffrey Tucker, in turn, noted it on Amy Wellborn's blog . The press release is from Wake Forest University : March 13, 2008 Samuel Weber, associate professor of early Christianity and spiritual formation at the Wake Forest University Divinity School, was invited to compose original chant settings that will be performed during the Pope’s visit to Washington, D.C., April 15 – 20. The chants will be sung during Evening Prayer at 5:30 p.m. April 16 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception with Pope Benedict XVI presiding, and during a private mass with the Holy Father at the Apostolic Nunciature (Papal Embassy) the following morning. "I am deeply honored to have a small part to play in the preparation of this vesper service,” says Weber. He composed original chant melodies for the antiphons, which are scriptural verses sung before and after the Psalms and Canticles of Vespers. Peter Latona, Ba...