Month: January 2013
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A GIRM Compendium?
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments is apparently preparing a document that is a sort of “how-to” manual for celebrating Mass.
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A structural approach to the Latin prayers of the Roman Missal
By looking at structure before diving into syntax and vocabulary, we can make the Latin prayers easier to understand.
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Blessed Fire!
I say this should be the second chant setting in the U.S. Roman missal, after the ICEL chants based on Latin chant. Whaddaya think?
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Using Poor Language in the Liturgy
“The lack of spectacular consequence is hardly surprising. Few people attend church services simply for the beauty of the language.”
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 27
Article 27 makes even more explicit the principle announced that the liturgical form of celebration should embody and express the hierarchical and communitarian nature of the Church and its liturgy.
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This, however, is indeed the celebration…
The Vatican is observing the Feast of Saint Anthony, patron and protector of animals, on January 17.
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Generation LGBTQIA — In Church and at Worship?
An interesting article in Thursday’s New York Times about the new generation of gender activists, who define themselves beyond the older LGBT categories and name themselves as queer or gender-nonconforming, etc.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 26
Forms of celebration that highlight the communal dimension of the liturgy are preferred to those that are (quasi-)private. Readers may wish to discuss liturgical practices which embody or challenge this principle over the last fifty years.