Month: July 2012
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The CMAA Colloquium—a report
I spent the last week of June in Salt Lake City, in the shadow of the jewel-like Cathedral of the Madeleine, attending my first-ever colloquium (their twenty-second) of the Church Music Association of America. Nearly 300 people from all over the country (and some from overseas) focused their attention and energies on preparing eucharistic liturgies…
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What the ‘God particle’ sounds like
Scientists have simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such as the Higgs boson when they are produced at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Hastening with a loving heart on St. Benedict’s feast day
He’s back! Xavier Rindfleisch went to Mass yesterday and noticed some odd things in the collect for the Feast of St. Benedict.
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Church or Beer? Americans on Twitter
by Jack Rakosky “The bloggers at Floating Sheep examined all geotagged tweets sent within the continental US between June 22 and June 28 (about 10 million in total and extracted all tweets containing the word “church” (17,686 tweets of which half originated on Sunday) or “beer” (14,405 tweets which are much more evenly distributed throughout…
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Pray Tell Improvements
Comments not threaded! Flagged comments!
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Cardinal Woelki on Communion for the Remarried
As priest, my starting point for anyone who asks Communion of me is that they do so with a pure heart.
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Putting back what’s missing in the new Mass, part II: the entrance rites
The post on the interview with Cardinal Burke has garnered something like a bazillion comments, and I don’t want to stop that discussion, but I did want to have a slightly more focused discussion on one of his specific suggestions: restoring/inserting the “prayers at the foot of the altar.”
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This Week’s Discussion Question: Is the Holy Spirit Present in Liturgies in Cyberspace?
I submit that it is high time to think through these liturgical practices at a deeper level than by simply claiming that online liturgies are not really “liturgy” because people are not bodily present to each other.
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Putting back what’s missing in the new Mass
Cardinal Burke has some suggestions for “mutual enrichment” of the pre-Vatican II and the post-Vatican II Mass.