Category: Announcements
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French Missal Translation to Undergo Modifications in Light of Magnum Principium
The French will go ahead with a revision to the Lord’s Prayer next week as planned, but they will take more time to revise the Missal translation in light of Magnum principium.
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Liturgical Press Academic Is Launched
Liturgical Press announces a new imprint.
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New Text of Infant Baptismal Rite Approved
The vote passed with the needed two-thirds majority. 23 voted against the new text. 3 abstained.
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Syriac Church to Be Built in Istanbul
It will be the first such house of worship to be built completely from scratch since the start of the Turkish Republic.
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In Memoriam: Linda J. Vogel
She taught for many years at Garrett-Evangelical Theological School, and with her husband wrote two books on sacramental theology and sacred time. She was a United Methodist deacon.
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New Zealand Bishops Committed to Exploring Alternative Missal Translation
Like many priests and parishioners, we share in the frustration concerning some aspects of the current translation of the Roman Missal and we reiterate our desire for beauty, comprehensibility and participation in and through the sacred liturgy.
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Preaching Joy in Prison
A chaplain to prisoners on death row wins Yale contest on preaching about joy.
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Liturgical Press Statement on the Ministry of Fr. James Martin, SJ
As a Benedictine publishing house, we strive to listen to others in charity, to engage in civil and charitable dialogue – to welcome each person as Christ because each person is Christ (RB 53:1).
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RIP John Gurrieri
Pray Tell has learned that the Rev. John Gurrieri, priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn, died on September 10th. After graduate studies at Institute Catholique in Paris, he was associate and then executive director of the US Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy, 1978-1988. In 1989, he accepted an invitation from Cardinal Roger Mahony to establish a…