Month: March 2012
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Hymn of the Day for Lent 4B
Here is my hymn text for the Fourth 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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Dutch-Flemish divide delays new Missal
Liturgists from the Netherlands and Belgium may fail to agree on a single Dutch-language Missal due to slight differences in the way the language is spoken in the two countries.
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End of Church? Religion Dying? Spiritual Awakening? Some Liturgical Musings.
“The end of conventional church isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Christianity after religion, a faith renewed by the experience of God’s spirit, is closer to what Jesus hoped for his followers than the scandalous division, politics, and enmity we have now.” – Diana Butler Bass
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Bishop Aquila (Fargo) receives Pope’s praise for reordering sacraments
“I was very surprised in what the Pope said to me, in terms of how happy he was that the sacraments of initiation have been restored to their proper order of baptism, confirmation then first Eucharist,” said Bishop Aquila.
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Vatican Reverses Cleveland Church Closings
The Vatican has reversed Bishop Richard Lennon’s closings of 13 churches in the Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, according to activists who fought the closings.
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What Irish Priests think
100% believe in God. 60% favor women’s ordination. 78% support married clergy.
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Liturgical Music Institute in Huntington, New York, June 24-29
A new Liturgical Music Institute has been created at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, NY.
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Common Ground on Concelebration?
Where sacraments and grace are concerned, it’s rarely a good idea to “do the math.” Many of the distortions and abuses of liturgical history arose precisely from “doing the math.”
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Andrew Sullivan on the words of the Mass
A reader asked Andrew Sullivan: Which writer most influenced your view of God?