Category: Liturgical Movement
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Pope Francis Honors Dom Guéranger’s Legacy of Liturgical Renewal
ANDRENIQUE ROLLE — Pope Francis honors the 150th anniversary of the death of Dom Prosper-Louis-Pascal Guéranger, OSB (1805-1875), the founder of the French Benedictine Congregation of Solesmes.
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Virgil Michel, OSB and Mechthild Mueller Ellis
KATHARINE E. HARMON — What Tildy shared with me opens up another dimension of the same 19th-century child who wrote philosophy, kept meticulous notecards for his preaching, wheedled his abbot into founding a publishing house, and drew thousands of the faithful into one common cause.
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Fr. Marco Benini to lecture on German and American Liturgical Movements
EDITOR — Virgil Michel, OSB’s legacy in liturgical renewal continues to have relevance today.
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Amen Corner: Is Liturgy Simply “a Given” in a Synodal Church?
CARMEL PILCHER — “A comprehensive liturgical renewal—one that includes all the baptized, the Body of Christ—is urgent.”
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Do This in Memory of Me
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — “[T]he way forward for the Church, despite the many new and different challenges it faces, is still to be discovered not around a conference table or in meetings, but in the fruitful celebration of the Eucharist.”
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Pope Francis to the Dicastery: “without liturgical reform, there is no reform of the Church”
EDITOR — Pope Francis, in his address, spoke of the connection between liturgical reform and reform of the Church.
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Vatican dicastery assembly to focus on proper liturgical formation and implementation
EDITOR — “‘How do we continue to let ourselves be amazed at what happens in the celebration under our very eyes?’ the statement said, quoting the Holy Father. “We are in need of a serious and dynamic liturgical formation.”
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Upcoming Lecture by Rev. Neil Xavier O’Donoghue on Active Participation in the Eucharistic Liturgy
Rev. Neil Xavier O’Donoghue, Ph.D., will offer a lecture titled “Active Participation in the Eucharistic Liturgy as the Key to the Renewal of the Church as proposed by Vatican II” this Friday, January 12, 2024, at 7:30pm ET at the Seminary Chapel at Redemptoris Mater Seminary (Kearney, NJ). The event is open, but registration is…
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From the Wires: The Church’s Authority to Revise and Suppress Preconciliar Rites
Pope Francis is right: it is necessary to return to a single, unified Roman Rite and leave the “Traditional Latin Mass” in the past. And our personal liturgical preferences have absolutely no bearing on the matter. As conservatives have grown fond of saying, truth doesn’t care about your feelings.