Month: March 2012
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Review: The CTS New Daily Missal
The CTS New Daily Missal is certainly a high quality reference for clergy and layperson alike.
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Sister Eleanor Bernstein, rest in peace
Sister Eleanor Bernstein, CSJ — liturgist, author, and former director of the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy 1988-2002 — died on March 12.
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Hymn of the Day for Lent 5B
Here is my hymn text for the Fifth Sunday of Lent in the B Cycle of the Roman Catholic three-year Sunday lectionary cycle. I look forward to readers’ suggestions for changes in word choice, rhyme scheme, progress of thought, and hymn-tune pairing.
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What Color is Your Lent?
The idea was, of course, Scriptural: sackcloth and ashes, the vesture of penance. The effect was a fading out of the ornate, a blending in with the surrounding stone or plasterwork. The Lenten White did not contrast as would violet; rather it simplified, made plain and austere, vesting the season in the color (or lack…
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Celebrating St. Patrick
Forget the shamrocks and snakes. Read the Confessio of St. Patrick this weekend.
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New Moderator of Pray Tell! New Contributors!
Pray Tell has a new moderator and is happy to welcome two new contributors.
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Ordinariate: RSV Bible, calendar with -gesima days
The U.S. Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter – for Anglicans/Episcopalians coming into full unity with the Roman Catholic Church – has published its liturgical calendar.
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Theologies of Worship in the Ritualism Controversy (or: Of Studies, Liturgical Part VI)
Here’s a mixed-and-matched topic that crosses the areas of Liturgical Theology, Modern Liturgical History and Anglican Studies.