Author: Anthony Ruff, OSB
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ACP Outstanding Service Award to Peter Dwyer
Dwyer is a stalwart supporter of Pray Tell
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Francis allows women to be installed in liturgical ministries
This is big.
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Short Commentary: OCP’s Contemporary Mass Propers
File this under “Only in the U.S.:” OCP offers contemporary/modern musical settings of the entrance and communion antiphon – the introit and communio – for the entire liturgical year. (The texts are from the Missal, not the Graduale Romanum. The two oftentimes overlap, but by no means always.) View some samples here. If you thought that the…
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Short Commentary: Can Communion Elements Transmit the Virus?
Here’s a sad report, and it’s one time I’m grateful for the concept of transubstantiation. Tragically, some senior figures in the Orthodox Church in Serbia have died of the coronavirus, while some Orthodox leaders in Greece are claiming that Communion from a shared spoon “can’t transmit the disease as it is the body and blood…
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Short Commentary: Pope Francis vs. Anti-Mask Protestors
From Market Watch , excerpting from Francis’s new book Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future: “Some groups protested, refusing to keep their distance, marching against travel restrictions — as if measures that governments must impose for the good of their people constitute some kind of political assault on autonomy or personal freedom,” he…
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Advanced Gregorian Chant Seminar Online
Where scholarship and musicality come together.
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Giving Thanks – Even Now
What are you thankful for during this pandemic? Add to our list.
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Pope Francis Favors Same Sex Civil Unions
WaPo reports: In a new documentary, Pope Francis has called for the creation of civil union laws for same-sex couples, in remarks that break from the Catholic Church’s official teaching and mark his clearest support to date for the issue. Everyone else reports it too – just google “Pope civil unions” and you’ll see it’s…
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Proofreading Perils
I laughed out loud this morning when I happened to come across this in the appendix of a book on hymn typesetting: I’m not throwing stones – I’ve made my share of mistakes – and I’m not going to tell you what book this is from. It reminded me of this title page of a…