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REPOST: Interviewing Liturgical Leaders: Robert Taft, S.J.
“The liturgy doesn’t need fixing. For starters it just needs a translation into something remotely resembling English. What needs fixing are the celebrating clergy.” – Robert Taft, 2014
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Robert Taft SJ (1932-2018): The Pray Tell Obituary
Robert Taft was before anything else a good priest and a faithful and faith-filled Jesuit.
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A letter from Fr. Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., appropriate for All Souls Day
As we celebrate the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’) I thought it would be of some interest to the readers of Pray Tell for me to transcribe some portions of Fr. Godfrey Deikmann’s Advent 1999 letter to “family and friends.” One of the members of the Carondolet Village community with whom I…
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Robert Taft Acceptance Speech: Berakah Award
I have spent most of my waking moments thinking, teaching, writing, or talking about liturgy. I have tried to do so as a servant of the church.
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Do we still have a king?
There is a curious feature in the Prayer of the Faithful for Episcopalians: we tend to give tremendous airtime to the executive branch. One might suspect that this is the result of some sort of residual effect of its historic relationship to the Church of England. But a look at the history of the texts…
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Solemnity of All Saints
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Involuntary Immigration, Feast Days, Devotions, Prayer and Poetry
For many of us, today is Halloween, all hallows eve, the Vigil of All Saints, the last day of October, Mary’s month, month of the Rosary, month of the Queen of all saints.
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Pope Francis at Cologne Cathedral
A work in stone draws admirers of the present pope.
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Be still and know…
The slightest movement draws attention to itself and to the person who is moving.
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