Month: October 2010
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Update on Virginia Theological Seminary Chapel Fire
“It is clear that the fire was not caused by any deliberate or criminal act. Although the fire was caused by human agency, those involved took ‘steps that any responsible person would have taken’. However, these steps were not sufficient to stop the catastrophe that followed.” — Dean Ian Markham
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Fears for the Missal
The introduction of the new texts will require hard work for many of us. It will not help if we have to champion a text which is very different from what we were expecting, of such questionable quality, and which seems to have sidelined the bishops’ conference. My fear is that the whole process will…
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Beauty & the Beast: 2008 vs. 2010, Page One
by Xavier Rindfleisch
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WDTPRUTS?
A regular Pray Tell reader writes that he very much likes the work of Xavier Rindfleisch, and he is glad to hear that there will be more.
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Dedicating, Blessing, and Consecrating the New
The incessant pounding of construction has finally come to a close at St Thomas More and at the vigil Mass Saturday evening our bishop dedicated, blessed, or consecrated quite an array of buildings: a 29,000 square foot parish center that includes a social hall and professional kitchen, a parish library, the St Lawrence fireplace, adult…
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Nova Vulgata and New Grail (wonkish)
If the Revised Grail Psalms are the preferred version for use at liturgy, then why not use them for those antiphons that are from psalms?
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James MacMillan on his Mass setting for the pope
There is a different “sound” to the new setting, which perhaps owes something to my love of chant, traditional hymnody and authentic folk music, and nothing at all to the St. Louis Jesuits and all the other dumbed-down, sentimental bubble-gum music which has been shoved down our throats for the last few decades in the…
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“A sense of demoralization” at GSGP
When the Vatican rejected the ICEL translation, I saw the joy and sparkle dim in his eyes.
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Update: translation politics
The executive of ICEL was able to meet last week with Pope Benedict.