Nuns from the Congregation of the School Sisters of Notre Dame during profession.

Consecration of the new cathedral in Aquino. From the left are: a canon from Aquino in a cappa parva, Argentinian cardinal Santiago Copello (the first…

Bishop Alfonso Maria Ferroni O.F.M. in a mantelletta.

Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster O.S.B. in a Benedictine cappa magna [from The Far Sight].

A High Mass with profession in the Benedictine abbey in Kansas. The votarists are lying prostrate covered with a black shroud with a cross and…

Archbishop Adeodato Giovanni Piazza O.C.D., the Patriarch of Venice, in a winter cappa magna.

Two Cistercian abbots: in a mantelletta is Dom Columban Mulcahy, in a mantelletta and a mozzetta is Dom Camillus Claffey, whereas in ferraiolo is abp.…

A photo from Benedictine Abbey of St. Andrew in Lophem Lez Bruges where we may observe rarely seen arrangement during the Introit: the assistants are…

Apostolic nuncio to France, archbishop Roncalli, during a procession before a pontifical High Mass in the ruins of gothic Benedictine abbey of St. Wandrille.

The provost of Canons Regular in Klosterneuburg during a High Mass [photo: Klosterneuburger Marginalien]

Saturday of Ember Days was traditionally the day when ordinations took place. The deacon and the subdeacon are wearing a chasuble folded in front (planeta…

Thanksgiving after the Mass in the Carthusian Abbey of St. Hugh, Parkminster, England.

In a cappa magna is bishop Jean-Félix de Hemptinne O.S.B., the Vicar Apostolic in Katanga (Kongo) and the titular bishop of Mila.

Guglielmo Cardinal Massaia O.F.M. Cap. On the table there is a beautiful tri-corn Roman hat ♥

Father Pius O.F.M. Cap. adoring the Host during a Holy Mass he is celebrating. According to the rubrics of the Missal, as soon as he…

The chant of the Gospel during a solemn High Mass on Resurrection Sunday at the Church of Our Lady of Grace in San Giovanni Rotondo…

“The greatest favour Father Superior may do for me is to allow me to abstain from food.”

A Solemn High Mass celebrated by a Benedictine abbot in the Montserrat abbey.

Carmelitan nuns during a meal on a pentitential day.

Two of the founding sisters of the contemplative Dominican monastery in Pakistan during a ride on a camel.