Month: July 2012
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In Search of a New Generation of Seminarians
“I am hearing that these young seminarians are put off by the aura of narrow, angry, bitterness exuded by some of their ‘elder’ brother seminarians.” – Sherry Anne Weddel
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Putting back what’s missing in the new Mass, part III: the offertory prayers
Among the suggestions for “mutual enrichment” of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms is the suggestion that the Offertory prayers of the 1962 Missal either replace or be allowed as an alternative to the prayers at the Preparation of the Gifts in the Ordinary Form. What do you think?
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Pews or Chairs?
A Pray Tell reader writes with the following question – only the place name was changed. Oh, and I switched “battle” to “discussion,” since this is a blog about liturgy, about which there are never “battles.
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Cardinal Burke Feels the “Call of Beauty”
“It has a beauty to it that is beyond discussion, at least to reasonable people.” – Cardinal Burke on the pre-Vatican II “extraordinary form” Mass
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God Admits Humans Not Most Impressive Creation
‘It’s Mountains,’ Says Divine Being.
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This Week’s Discussion Question: Neo-Augustinian vs. Post Vatican II Thomist perspectives on liturgical reform and renewal
“Neo-Augustinian” approaches to the liturgy tend to view it in Platonic terms, the heavenly worship offered to the Father by the Son in the unity of the Spirit, joined in by the angels and saints, in which those on earth are privileged to gain some share by grace. “Post Vatican II Thomist” approaches to the…
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Responses to the Responses to “The CMAA Colloquium—a report”
Paul Ford here, not feeling very confident about how to make extensive replies to many but not all of the replies thus far to “The CMAA Colloquium—a report.”
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Enough With the Reaction to the Reaction to the Reaction Already!
“I can’t tell you how wearying living with the reaction to the reaction to the reaction to the reaction is getting. Now that I’m seeing (as I knew was inevitable) the first signs of reaction by the very youngest seminarians to their trad ‘elders’.” – Sherry Anne Weddel
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Association of US Catholic Priests calls for reexamination of liturgical translation
The new English missal has “caused disharmony, disruption and discord among many… frustrating rather than inspiring the Eucharistic prayer experience of the Christian faithful, thus leading to less piety and to less ‘full, active and conscious participation’.”