Month: October 2012
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The Battle for Meaning, Fifty Years and Counting
by Julia Smucker “Continuity does not mean that nothing has changed, still less that nothing will change.”
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Epistle Side? Gospel Side? Hello??
“Separating the places of proclamation for the Liturgy of the Word – simple for the lay lectors and grand for the ordained deacon – gives me a lot more heartburn than the latest piece of silly dressing-up.”
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Vernacular Missal Chants in Practice
“It just doesn’t work in English.”
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Disagreeing… and Singing Hymns to Jesus
by Karen Edwards “Can we be different, and yet, at the end of our days – Roman Catholics and Confessional Lutherans and Christians of all denominations – gather together and sing hymns to Jesus in a harmony that is a foretaste of the heavenly choir to come?”
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Hymnal Review, Part Five: Conclusion, Hymnody and Justice
By James E. Frazier Neither the Vatican II Hymnal nor the Adoremus Hymnal provides a listing of copyright permissions.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 8
Article 8 serves as a transition from the consideration of the nature of the liturgy to reflections on its role in the life of the Church. In J. D. Crichton’s lapidary sentence “[t]he liturgy recalls (anamnesis) the past events of salvation, makes Christ present here and now and looks both upwards to heaven and on…
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Hymnal Review, Part Four: The Vatican II Hymnal
The Vatican II Hymnal is at once the most complete, the most limited, and in some ways the most traditional of all three hymnals reviewed in this series.
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“And with your evil spirit”
The Archbishop of Jakarta speaks in favor of dynamic equivalence at the Synod on Evangelization. “In this way, the local church will become more communicative and expressive,” he said.