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Month: February 2010

  • Richard McBrien on the New Missal

    Here is Fr. Richard McBrien on the upcoming English missal and Fr. Ryan’s proposal to wait before implementing it. You’ll never guess what side McBrien is on.

  • Lenten Calendar, Academic Calender

    There is a certain tension between the liturgical year and academic year. This tension becomes most pronounced when one places the season of Lent and the Spring semester in the same arena.

  • Fun with Words

    Any “wandering Armenians” out there on the First Sunday of Lent?

  • Election Day

    Today, around the world, dioceses are celebrating the Rite of Election, the second “step” of catechumens in their journey toward the Easter sacraments. In this rite, which closes the period of the catechumenate proper, the Church hears testimony as to the catechumens’ readiness, and confirms that they are fit to take part in the next…

  • Another Kind of Fasting

    “It is a scandal and an open wound that Christians are not able to celebrate the eucharist in common. We can fast, and not merely pray, for church unity. There is spiritual power in freely foregoing reception of the eucharist for a time,” writes Philipp Harnoncourt.

  • Will interest in English propers endure?

    The liturgical function of the proper chants is to aid meditation upon scriptural texts. When the chants are sung in Latin, they can serve this function for only a few. –Bruce. E. Ford

  • A Tribute to Richard Proulx

    For the past many years I had the good fortune of working with Richard in creating an annotated catalog of all his works. –Michael Silhavy

  • Out of Egypt

    Through no fault of his, this Egyptian Jesuit mystic’s letter to Pope Benedict was accidentally made public. The Church of today is too formal and too formalistic, he wrote.

  • Msgr. Moroney on the New Translation

    The realistic expectation is that confirmation will come this spring, with about a year’s worth of catechesis and printing of books to follow. …