Month: December 2010
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November BCDW Newsletter
The Newsletter of the Bishops’ Committee on Divine Worship was in today’s mail.
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Japanese unveil new Hail Mary translation
“Translation issues have been a recurring point of discussion in Japan for centuries. In the past 10 years there are a number of vociferous debates on Japanese translations of everything from prayers to the catechism, to the Mass,” notes UCANEWS.com.
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Another Christmas Day Homily
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to preach on Christmas day, so I took advantage of this to preach on John 1. In fact, I used it as an opportunity to preach on how we might think of this text in connection with the Christmas story. No one rose up; no one…
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Preaching the Incarnation: John 1 on Christmas Day
Rita Ferrone: “Maybe Cody or some other PrayTell Chrysostom will post a model homily for Christmas day to help the homilists who struggle with this text.” Mmmm. . . OK.
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The ICEL Progress Reports – leaked
Here are the ICEL progress reports – three of them from 1988, 1990, 1992 – giving updates on the project which led to the 1997 ICEL Sacramentary rejected by Rome. Uploaded by a certain Jat.
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Marian Apparition: Our Lady of Good Help
Bishop David Ricken (Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin) announced today that he officially approves the Marian apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help at Champion.
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St. Ambrose and the White Robed Army
“I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slaughtered because of the witness they bore to the word of God.”
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Symmetry in the sanctuary
As a monk once said at chapter meeting, “Liturgists are people who think, if only we put the credence table in just the right place, THEN they’ll come.” In that spirit, an Anglican viewpoint on church priorities.
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Cardinal Lehmann criticizes advocates of the old rite of Mass
Whoever is attached to the “time-honored, unchanging forms” does not see “their historical conditionality,” Cardinal Lehmann said.