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GIA to Host Fall Institute October 11-13, 2018
GIA Publications will host a Fall Institute October 11-13, 2018 on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. Gathering leaders in music, worship, education, and formation, the Institute will offer an assortment of skill building and enrichment workshops, plenum addresses, ecumenical prayer opportunities, and choral reading sessions. Session topics include a wide range of programming (rehearsal techniques, conducting, pastoral music, leadership,…
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Notre Dame Folk Choir Shares New Hymn in Response to Natural Disasters
The University of Notre Dame Folk Choir, under the direction of J.J. Wright and Karen Schneider Kirner, released a new hymn for praying the realities of recent natural disasters. The full score of “God Hushes Storms to Silence” by Karen Schneider Kirner and John T. Kyler is available for free download so that communities everywhere…
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Memorial at the Dojo
One thing that united all my Summer 2018 deaths was that all of the individuals (or their mourners) belonged to the ecclesial categories of “none” or “done” that we have become familiar with.
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The Prayer the Catholic Church Needs
Come, Holy Spirit.
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Pope on Short Masses
Pope Francis in Sicily garners big applause when he says a homily shouldn’t last more than 8 minutes. “A 40 minute homily? NO. The whole Mass should last about 40 minutes!” Archbishop Mark Coleridge on Twitter: “Very Jesuit really… they left the long liturgies to the Benedictines et al and got on with the mission.”
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on Speaking the Truth
…every and any church that colludes in secret keeping they … we are responsible.
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Exaltation of the Holy Cross
How our inconsistencies make Jesus suffer!
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In This Issue: Worship, September 2018
Summary of the September 2018 issue of Worship.
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Sistine Chapel Choir under Investigation
From the Vatican press office, Pray Tell translation: Concerning what is appearing in the press about some occurrences of the Sistine Chapel Choir, it is confirmed: The Holy Father Francis, a few months ago, authorized an investigation into the economic-administrative aspects of the choir. The investigation is ongoing.
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