Author: Fritz Bauerschmidt
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Ars Praedicandi: Ascension
The Ascension is not about escape.
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Ars Praedicandi: “On the night he was betrayed…”
In our eucharistic celebration we recall this night with these words: “For on the night he was betrayed…”
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Praying for Peace with Sighs Too Deep for Words
We do not want to pray unintelligently, but we also cannot evade the ultimately mysterious aspect of all our acts of prayer.
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Two Cheers for Eucharistic Prayer II
I am willing to offer, if not three, at least two cheers for Eucharistic Prayer II.
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History and Tradition
“History” and “tradition” are not synonyms, but two different ways of living with the past that need each other as the Church journeys into the future
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Is it Possible to Admit Liturgical Mistakes?
Can we even contemplate the idea that some aspects of the liturgical reform might have been mistaken?
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Cursing Psalms and the Liturgy of the Hours
What is missing from the Psalter and why?
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What is a Post-Vatican-II-Mass?
Whether celebrated with contemporary music or Gregorian Chant, oriented toward people or with them, with communion on the tongue or in the hand, in brutalist simplicity or baroque splendor, the reformed Mass conveys certain distinctive emphases of the Second Vatican Council.
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Some Thoughts on Intractability in Liturgical Debates
Sides seems to grow ever more shrill. What do we need in the way of common ground in order to talk?