Month: December 2011
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Problems with Today’s Collect – Immaculate Conception
“Like Mary, we can be pure by God’s gift, but, unlike her, we need to be cleansed.” – Bruce Harbert
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One way to get assembly feedback on your homily
But would you really want to know what the assembly thinks about it?
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An Overreach Concerning the New Missal Translation?
The service itself was not promoted as Roman Catholic per se… the presider said, “Let’s try that again. The Lord be with you.” The laughter immediately died down and the congregation responded, “And with your spirit.”
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The Advent We Hope For
“Whenever I attend Catholic Mass during Advent, I’m always struck by how it is simply assumed that Christmas is nowhere yet in sight. They always get, Advent right — the scriptures and prayers, of course; the music, especially; and, just as important, the mood.” – Debra Dean Murphy in Christian Century
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Two views on the missal at National Post
“The return of proper English to the Catholic Mass ought to be welcomed by all who cherish the beauty of the English language.” “The new liturgy leaves Catholics with the troubling question: Where is the Church now being taken?”
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Byzantine Commentaries on the Eucharist (or: Of Studies, Liturgical, Part III)
This post continues our occasional romp through Fr. Unterseher’s Ph.D. comprehensive examination topics, with a look at the historic mystagogical and allegorical commentaries on the Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy.
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Criticism of the new translation
Criticism of the new missal translation from two women.
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Logistical problems with the New Missal in the UK
The Catholic Truth Society (CTS) has blocked attempts by bookshops and parishes to buy chapel editions of the new English translation of the Missal from America after its own supplies sold out.
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Msgr. Moroney on poetic beauty and bottom-up collaboration
“Never has there been a more bottom up process for producing a translation in the history of the Church.” – Msgr. James Moroney on public radio.