Category: Liturgical Movement
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Lex Supplicandi
As we enter into another Holy Week and bring our Lent to a close, it is worth considering to what extent the church’s posture, its lex supplicandi, has formed our lives and our communities.
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The Twentieth Century Reform of the Liturgy: Outcomes and Prospects
The preaching of the Gospel presumes at least some openness to change.
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Fairies and St. Michael
Last week, the world celebrated the 80th anniversary of the publication of a small, little book, whose trilogian successors C. S. Lewis said were ” like lightning from a clear sky; as sharply different, as unpredictable in our age as Songs of Innocence were in theirs.”
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Misal Romano: A Tale of Two Translations
“Whatever the reason, the 2014 Misal Romano of the Conferencia del Episcopado Méxicano has achieved much of what critics feel the English translation lacks.”
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The Love of Christ that Surpasses All Understanding… & Archbishop Welby’s Age of “Radical Christian Inclusion”
Aside from rituals of blessings and marriage of LGBT persons that are testing our churches, I have the sneaking suspicion there is a more fundamental problem: That too much worship has become either ritualism or sensationalism and not transformation.
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Lessons from the Liturgical Movement… and a Few Chuckles, Too
“We may be revolutionaries, but not posing at such.”
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A new treasury of primary source material for Vatican II
Newly published material, all of it predating the Second Vatican Council, illustrates a wide range of views on liturgical development and change.
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Austrian Bishop Speaks Out Against the “Reform of the Reform”
“I am convinced that there cannot and will not be a general change of the ‘Ordinary Form’ of the Roman Catholic Church as renewed after the Council.”
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Patrick Regan, OSB, RIP [updated]
Pray Tell has received word that Abbot Patrick Regan passed away last night at 8 pm.