Category: 1_NEWS
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Who is Father Stanley Rother and Why is He Being Beatified?
Father Rother wrote: “The shepherd cannot run at the first sign of danger.” Nevertheless, as conditions worsened, he came back to Oklahoma. After a short time, despite the danger, he returned to the mission because of his love for the people.
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Announcing New Video Series
The Pray Tell Blog is excited to announce a new video series that will be hosted on our site!
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Southwest Liturgical Conference: January 16-19, 2018
The 2018 Southwest Liturgical Conference will be taking place this upcoming January 16-19th in Cheyenne, WY. This year’s conference is titled Find Your Voice: Sing as One to the Lord. Presenters include ValLimar Jansen, the Most Rev. Mark Seitz, Dr. Steven Janco, and Carmen Florez-Mansi who will present on finding your voice in different areas…
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Rebuilt: Fr. White Lays Out Vision in Dedication Homily
“The problem with some traditional Catholics isn’t that they want to return to the past, it’s that they’re not willing to go back far enough.” – Fr. Michael White
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Francis Condemns Magnum Principium, Begins Saying Latin Mass After Hitting Head During Popemobile Accident
For the trusty news source Eye of the Tiber: Days after the Pontiff sustained injuries after hitting his head in a popemobile accident in Colombia, Pope Francis has now condemned his own motu proprio, Magnum Principium, allowing bishops’ conferences control over the translation of liturgical texts. Read the rest of the story here.
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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…
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“Rebuilt” Parish Decommissions Former Worship Space
The Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Maryland, of “Rebuilt” fame, is moving into its new church building. “This weekend was the last in our current 70’s era church,” they recently posted. Check out the parish here. Here is the decommissioning prayer they used. Prayer for the Closing of a Church In the mystery of…
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In Conversation on the Motu Proprio: Bishop Coyne
“I think the translation of liturgical texts is important, but it is not high on my priority list.”
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Documentation: Magnum Principium
Attention must be paid to the benefit and good of the faithful, nor must the right and duty of Episcopal Conferences be forgotten.