The Early American Reformers

Yesterday's (Saturday) post touched upon the work of American Benedictines dating back to the 1920's and the founding of the first U.S. publication on worship, Orate Fratres, in 1926. Here is a link to a 2012 Notre Dame essay on the impact of the early liturgical reform movement, "Re-reading Orate Fratres: The American Liturgical Movement is Born (1926-27)."

​Today is the anniversary of the death of the Trappist monk Thomas Merton. (1968)