Month: July 2010
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday II
August 15 is my birthday. When people ask why I became Catholic I reply “Because Jesus still can’t refuse his mother anything.”
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday I
Near the top of my list is Paul Mariani’s new biography, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life (Viking 2008).
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Where’s the text??
You’ll enjoy Jerry Galipeau’s report on what we know about the state of the new missal text. Almost nothing, it turns out.
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Learning about Ecumenical Relationships: Personal Reflections after Thirteen Years
Here is an interesting article on ecumenism by John Witvliet of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, from the Summer 2010 issue of Liturgical Ministry.
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Archbishop Di Noia about young people
Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, OP, Secretary of the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, has some highly interesting comments on young Catholics in today’s culture.
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Vatican Dress Code
The officers of the Swiss Guard are now pulling aside tourists who show too much skin.
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Chant in 1936
Here is a fascinating article from 1936 Orate Fratres (now Worship), “Why People Do Not Like Chant.”
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The Southeaster Liturgical Music Symposium
is in Atlanta this August 21st.
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America on new music
Here is America magazine on new music for the new translation at the recent NPM convention.