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Month: August 2011

  • In Defense of Fr. Talk-Show-Host (sort of)

    This past weekend I had occasion to preside at a baptism and a wedding on the same day, which prompted me to think a bit about the demands that the reformed liturgical rites place on those who preside at them.

  • CCCB missal website

    The changes initiated by the Second Vatican Council are on-going. Therefore, in a Church that is alive with the Holy Spirit, we can expect that the process of change will always be present.

  • Dumping My Assumptions about Mary

    “I had absorbed a subtle lie: if I imitated Mary, I would become weak, passionless, and boring—the antithesis of the modern woman. Mary was an old-school relic that had nothing to do with me. Little about her life was applicable to mine. … Then I became a mother.”

  • The Interiority and the Exteriority of the Communion Rite

    Allied to a previous discussion, I think it’s time to elaborate the both/and—the individual and the communal dimensions—of the communion rite by a close analysis of Articles 80 through 89 of the General Instruction. I’ll start this thread and I invite others to contribute reasoned and temperate reflections.

  • The Blogosphere and “The Sins against Justice in Everyday Speech”

    I wince continually at my failings in these matters and I am ashamed that in the defense of my positions on liturgical issues I injure the Body of Christ. I know that others feel as I do, and I hope that they and others may draw courage and resolution from the following.

  • Standing during the communion rite

    I want to set forth the value of standing during the communion rite, from the time of the Our Father until the time of silent prayer after communion. My argument is based on the values inherent in every version of the General Instruction from 1969 to the present, as well as the changes made in…

  • Retrofitting?

    Retrofitted versions of forgotten or underutilized settings may be equal to, or better than, some of the new settings we’ve seen to date.

  • Priesthood, punctuation, punctiliousness…

    Our Catholic tradition teaches that sexism is a sin and excluding women from the priesthood is sinful. ??

  • Comparing GIRMs?

    Is anyone else attempting a side-by-side comparison of the 2002 provisional English translation of the General Instruction with the 2011 final, international translation of the same, together with the Latin original? I am up to Article 90 in this rather exhausting work and I wonder if others are already working on this and will post…