Month: April 2013
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 43
Readers might take heart that the Council Fathers declare that concern for liturgical life is not a peculiar and peripheral obsession, but a response to divine initiatives in the contemporary era.
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Unvested Altar Servers
I see that the altar servers aren’t vested at Pope Francis’ daily Mass at the Guesthouse.
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Los Angeles Liturgy Conference, June 28-29, 2013
Keynote speakers are Msgr. Kevin Irwin and Msgr. Rick Hilgartner, and discussion moderators are Bob Hurd and Pedro Rubalcava.
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Pope Francis on cassocks on clericalism
The pope evinces little preoccupation for externals.
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Liturgical Music Institute to be held June 23-28 in Huntington, NY
The second annual Liturgical Music Institute will take place at the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, NY from June 23 to 28. This five day comprehensive program offers musical, liturgical and pastoral formation for both new and experienced liturgical musicians.
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All Together Now? Catholic Unity and the Liturgy
Fifty years after the promulgation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, some assert that this unity is textual. But is the unity of the Roman Rite really about having a single text? Textual unity was not what the fathers of the Council chiefly had in mind when they made the landmark decision to opt…
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Pope Francis: Vatican II was “beautiful work of the Holy Spirit” but some “wish to turn the clock back”
But 50 years later, “have we done everything the Holy Spirit was asking us to do during the Council,” he asked. The answer is “No,” said Pope Francis.