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OneLicense and LicenSing to Merge
The new Company, jointly owned by GIA and OCP, will retain the ONE LICENSE name, Chicago offices, and OneLicense.net website. Participating publishers include OCP, GIA, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Hope Publishing, Concordia, Church Publishing, Oxford University Press, International Liturgy Publications, and many more.
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A Hymn Text for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Year A
This hymn of the day for Advent 4A celebrates the events leading up to the birth of Jesus, but in such a way that the text could also be used during the Christmas season. Stanza one is inspired by the interchange between God and Ahaz in Isaiah 7:10, but transposed to recognize that the sign…
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Steve Petrunak, Incoming NPM President, in Interview
My vision in 5 words? “United by gifts and talents.” The National Association of Pastoral Musicians has a most gifted and talented membership, filled with wisdom and energy. It is the task of leadership to bring them all together for the good of the association.
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New Marian Shrine at Christ Cathedral
On Wednesday, the seventh, Bishop Kevin Vann of the Diocese of Orange, announced that there will be a shrine in the Marian plaza surrounding the cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of La Vang. The Diocese of Orange has some 100,000 Vietnamese Catholics, worshipping throughout the diocese, with large communities in fifteen parishes. Our Lady of…
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Pope Francis: “The Curia Is in Need of Reform”
“I have a thousand problems with ceremonial protocol, but I must respect it. Do you know the difference between terrorism and ceremonial protocol?
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Can Simple Wine Be Transformed into the Blood of Christ by Immersion of a Consecrated Host?
In Rome of the 13th century, administering Communion under only the form of bread was utterly unimaginable – so great was the understanding that the Church should do what Christ had done, and he had given bread and wine to his apostles as his Body and Blood.
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History of Gaudete
PinkRose…And now you know
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Liturgy Lines: Communal Reconciliation: The Second Rite
Such poor celebrations turn people away and deprive them of a wonderful opportunity to experience communal reconciliation which “shows more clearly the communal nature of penance”
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A Hymn Text for the Third Sunday of Advent, Year A
“From Deep Within a Prison Cell” takes its inspiration for the first scene of the gospel appointed for this Lord’s Day (Matthew 11:2-11). Stanzas one and two recall the interchange between John and Jesus about Jesus’ identity. The third stanza starkly transposes John’s question to the contemporary world. I hope that worshipers would hear in…
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