Author: Other Voices
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Liturgy Lines: “Bless You!”
As with any liturgy, it is essential that a blessing be prepared and celebrated in a way that ensures the full, conscious and active participation of everyone present.
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Ad Resurgendum cum Christo
Whatever the motivation that led Cardinal Müller and the CDF to issue the Instruction on creamation, it changes nothing for us in North America.
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Liturgy Lines: “Including People with Disability in Liturgy”
by Elizabeth Harrington This post originally appeared at Liturgy Brisbane on December 3, 2006. I grew up in an era when the so-called ‘handicapped’ were seldom seen and certainly never heard. They were looked upon as objects of pity and recipients of charity rather than as truly human. Thank goodness things have changed and today…
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Read Cardinal Sarah Accurately
One need not share Sarah’s enthusiasm for ad orientem to find his critique plausible.
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Liturgy Lines: “Liturgy – Praying Together”
Like love and marriage in the old musical, you can’t have one without the other.
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Liturgy and the Virtues: Rooted in Hope
I’ve slid into a choir stall in the Abbey Church three or four times a day most days for the last two years. I am not vowed to this routine, and there are many times when class or work could keep me plenty occupied. But the liturgy gives me hope, and that hope draws me…
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Liturgy Lines: “The Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy Draws to a Close”
What might parishes do around this time to mark the end of the Year of Jubilee?
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Did the Presider Face East in the Early Church?
In the absence of explicit evidence, history is unable to settle the matter.
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Pope Francis on Saint Francis
St. Francis was a mystic and a pilgrim who lived in simplicity and in wonderful harmony with God, with others, with nature and with himself.