Author: Paul Ford
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I Loved Wisdom More Than Health or Beauty
The Collegeville Composers Group created this song for the Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary TIme B as a Song for the Table. It also served as a Song for the Week in Year A for the Seventeenth Sunday and again for the Thirty-second Sunday. In Year C it is a good song for the Twenty-third Sunday.
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Whatever became of “bible services”?
It will be another thirty weeks before we get to our re-reading of Sacrosanctum Concilium 35. [UPDATED] But I am teaching an elective, “The RCIA: The Sacraments of Christian Initiation & the Catechumenal Model as Inspiration for Parish Life” and I need help remembering what happened to the implementation of CSL 35, §4; Bible services should be encouraged,…
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This Week’s Discussion Question: ” . . . too lively for Communion?”
There are times for reverence and adoration during the communion rite; but the communion procession is not one of those times.
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This Week’s Discussion Question: The presider’s responsibilities
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, says in §11: “But in order that the liturgy may be able to produce its full effects, it is necessary that the faithful come to it with proper dispositions, that their minds should be attuned to their voices, and that they should cooperate with divine grace lest…
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A bishop’s praise of Bishop Trautman
Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg pays tribute to Bishop Donald Trautman, emeritus of Erie, PA, and tells a story about this “Lion of the Liturgy” that I had never heard before.
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A “default” communion canticle: Wisdom 16: 20–21, 26; 17:1.
This morning’s use of the Canticle of Wisdom as the reading for morning prayer in Give Us This Day (alas not used in the Lectionary) put me in mind of its significance as one of the default communion psalms and canticles.