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Month: November 2010

  • Order of Mass Final UK – leaked

    The leakage continues. Now someone has put up the Order of Mass – Final UK at WikiSpooks. Note, this document includes lots of prefaces. And if this is the final version for the UK, presumably it’s the final version for the rest of us too.

  • Gray Book antiphons – leaked

    And now someone has leaked the antiphons in the Gray Book – i.e., the version prepared by ICEL for the bishops’ conferences. So many documents, so many leaks… I can hardly keep up today.

  • The latest final version of the missal text

    What sort of corrections to the Received text? It has been heavily critiqued, mocked, and ridiculed online in recent months. We all have been curious how the CDW would respond when it sent the final version to national conferences.

  • The 2008 Gray Book – leaked

    A friend writes to notify me that someone has leaked the Gray Book of the Proper of Seasons and the Proper of Saints.

  • Holy Hanging Around, on Formation for Baptismal Living

    During the season of Lent, Christians are invited to reflect on the meaning of their baptism. In that spirit, we feature again this post on baptismal liturgy among Methodists (and some related topics) by Mark Stamm, Associate Professor of Christian Worship at Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, TX.

  • Play a game of thanksgiving

    Sometimes it’s hard to know how to affirm and develop young children’s understanding of abstract virtues like gratitude and generosity. Then again, sometimes it’s also just hard to get rid of the stuff I have that I don’t need.

  • “Christ Comes, the Promised Peace of God”

    For some years now I have tried to keep this season by deepening my appreciation for contemporary hymn texts. I’d like to share with the readers of PrayTell the four hymn texts I’ve chosen to mark the four weeks of Advent this year. For the First Week of Advent, the hymn I’ve chosen is “Christ…

  • An Advent ABC

    Granted, I fully expect to hear sermons encouraging me to choose between the (essentially sales-driven, pre-) Christmas season and the liturgical season of Advent. But for this year, I prefer simply to keep to the message of my Advent ABC.

  • Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

    “To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.”