Day: August 14, 2010
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Vigil Masses or Anticipated Masses?
The new Roman Missal (editio typica tertia) is not very new. But two new features are: a Vigil of the Epiphany and a Vigil of the Ascension, each with their own euchology and lectionary texts. But will these vigils be as unused as the ones already in the missal, such as tonight’s. If you went…
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Even ‘orthodox’ ?!
My heavens, Pope Benedict is pushing orthodox Catholicism?
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For the Assumption: The politics of the Magnificat
“Mary of Nazareth … was far from being a timidly submissive woman; on the contrary she was a woman who did not hesitate to proclaim that God vindicates the humble and oppressed, and removes the powerful people of the world from their privileged positions.” — Pope Paul VI
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The mind of the Church on the ‘Novus ordo’
At Catholic Culture, Jeff Mirus makes a very good point about the reformed liturgy of Paul VI: in the mind of the Church, it is the normal, ordinary form of the Catholic liturgy. The ‘extraordinary’ form is permitted and one may prefer it, but one should not denigrate the Church’s normal, ordinary liturgy.