Month: June 2010
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Translations compared
Here are some samples of collect prayers in various translations, including ICEL 2008.
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Be nice – even at weddings
Vicars in the Church of England are instructed to be more welcoming and allow for a more casual attitude at weddings.
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Finger and a face
Two years ago I committed one of the more heroic acts in my life. I drove in Italy. To locate my valor more precisely, I drove through Pisa to take my family to see “The Leaning Tower Of.” Until that trip, my wife and children did not know my head could rotate so nimbly, or…
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Fragments of Secular Sanctity
Galileo’s relics are to be housed, not in a cathedral, but in a public museum. That is why I am not sure whether this is a story about religion, or about science, or about art. Perhaps it is a story about something else entirely, a curious and half-hidden alternation between the sacred and profane.
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Fr. Ryan on his article and online petition
PrayTell recently visited with Fr. Michael G. Ryan, author of the article in America, “What If We Said ‘Wait’?”, which inspired an online petition calling for trial use of the text before it becomes official.
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On doxology and human language
My daughter Juliana is now 15 months old. She is now learning about one word a day, and is totally thrilled by the ability to communicate and be understood. Much of her language acquisition is — dare I say it — doxological…
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Real symbol and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
We tend to have a standing assumption that a symbol is a symbol precisely because it doesn’t serve any real purpose — a bell is a bell because it performs a function by making a sound, but a bell on a Christmas tree, without a clapper, is merely a symbol. See how quickly that “merely”…
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“A Cold Wind from Rome” by Bishop Taylor
If the conferences of bishops, or even the conference presidents, had claimed that their legitimate authority had been infringed upon by the [Roman] congregation’s behavior, is it too fanciful to dream that it might have led to a thorough examination of the role and activities of the Roman Curia?
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Missal: A Work in Progress
The Vatican’s approval of the Missal was for a work in progress.