Category: Do It Rite
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No “extra” Hosts
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — I am asking for the help of Pray Tell readers in this post. A particular bugbear of mine is when those who participate in the Eucharist are not offered Communion that is consecrated at the liturgy they are attending.
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Bread for the Eucharist
In a post, I published last week, I dealt with the problem of using a big host as opposed to the exceptional small precut hosts (which I reckon make up well over 99.9% of how Catholics receive Communion). While it must be admitted that these hosts have become more breadlike over the last decades, bigger…
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Calling all Geometricians
Prior to Vatican II there was little emphasis on the breaking of the Eucharistic Bread.
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Amen Corner: A Different Checklist
As preparations for the Paschal Triduum intenstify, Genevieve Glen, OSB, reminds us of liturgy’s ultimate goals in this quarter’s Amen Corner.
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Brief Book Review: New Church, New Altar
“A thoroughly documented historical and liturgical commentary and a most helpful pastoral guide to the celebration of this ritual for the dedication of a church and an altar.”
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One Flock, Walking Together
“When I join a communion procession, do I engage in this action as though I were a customer in line at a supermarket or an amusement park?”
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Is the Confiteor an obligatory part of Mass?
The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI published a letter earlier this week regarding the report on abuse in the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising. This post will not deal with the important issue of abuse in the Church, but, given that this is a liturgical blog, I would like to comment on a liturgical assumption that seems to…
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For the priest who has everything
I like to think of myself as a fairly avid follower of things liturgical, so I was surprised when, a few weeks ago, I came across a liturgical accoutrement that I had never encountered before. This was not some obscure item from the Middle Ages or a particular article used in the Syro-Malabar Rite. What…
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Lockdown 2.0
In Ireland we are in our second lockdown with all public liturgies cancelled. Parishes were just getting back on their feet after the lockdown. The “Sunday Obligation” had not been reintroduced and, from the unscientific reports that I heard, in-person Mass attendance was back to about 1/3 of what it had been prior to March.…