Month: October 2012
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Latin Chant on MSNBC
The Latin chant “Alleluia. Iustus Germinabit”… on The Today Show! Do you believe it?
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Confession, Pope, and Mary as drawing cards (?)
Those of you in the trenches, priests and lay ministers involved in RCIA, does this ring true to your experience? Are our three big drawing cards confession, pope, and BVM??
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Hymnal Review, Part Three: The St. Michael Hymnal
by James E. Frazier. “Despite my reservations about St. Michael Hymnal, the hymnal will serve any parish well that wants a traditional hymnal of this sort, with a fair range of non-traditional options.”
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I Loved Wisdom More Than Health or Beauty
The Collegeville Composers Group created this song for the Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary TIme B as a Song for the Table. It also served as a Song for the Week in Year A for the Seventeenth Sunday and again for the Thirty-second Sunday. In Year C it is a good song for the Twenty-third Sunday.
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Hymnal Review, Part Two: The Adoremus Hymnal
by James E. Frazier. “The several theological problems that I have noted in the Adoremus Hymnal were clearly not perceived as such by the editors.”
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A Nineteen-Year-Old College Freshman’s Thoughts on Liturgy, Theology, and the Church
When I was fourteen, in eighth grade, I read myself into the Roman Catholic Church.
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Another “Call to Action”
Organizers expected a few dozen to come to a gathering around concern for the direction the Catholic Church is going, but nearly 400 showed up and a larger meeting place had to be found at the last moment.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 7
Article 7 is the climax of SC’s treatment of the nature of the Liturgy. The text does not settle the disputed theological question of a strictly technical definition of the sacred Liturgy by proximate genus and specific difference. It pre-supposes the teaching of Mediator Dei ##20 and 22.
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O’Malley on V2 in NYT
The post-Vatican II church was not a different church. But if you take the long view, it seems to me incontestable that the turn was big, even if failures in implementation have made it less big in certain areas than the council intended.