Month: October 2012
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A Review of Three Hymnals: Adoremus Hymnal, St. Michael Hymnal, and Vatican II Hymnal
by James E. Frazier. “Because the three hymnals under consideration here constitute a concerted attack on what goes on in so many Sunday liturgies in North America, some background is helpful.”
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Discovered! The Hermeneutic of Continuity, Documented
The Sacred Synod … notes with great horror that errors are being spread everywhere, errors that open the way to perdition and close the gate of salvation.
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St. Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church!
I will go and chill some champagne (or should it be German “Sekt”)? We have a fourth woman who now is among the “Doctors of the Church.”
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On the wisdom of obliquity
Some goals are best pursued indirectly. Liturgy, in particular, should not aim at delivering a particular emotional or affectual outcome.
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Riddles and parables and the pursuit of wisdom
I get a lot of my theological energy from dabbling in things that, on the face of it, are not theology. Fantasy is one of those things, and always has been — you might almost say that the first theological work I read, or perhaps the first work I read theologically, was the Lord of…
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International Conference Remembering Heinrich Bewerunge
Maynooth conference commemorating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich Bewerunge, founding father of music at Maynooth.
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No more Agnus Dei tropes
USCCB Administrative Committee Approves Change to Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 6
Having considered especially the person of Christ and his redemptive work accomplished in his paschal mystery in article 5, article 6 continues the doctrinal foundations of the first chapter by considering the extension of Christ’s person and work through the Church, especially in the liturgy.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 5
Articles 5 – 13 provide a general theological consideration of the nature of the liturgy and its efficacy (5-7 [10]) and its importance in the life of the Church (8-13). Article 5 announces the centrality of Christ in salvation history, foreshadowed in the history and prophetic ministry of the Jewish people and extended by the…