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All Souls — Gathered as the Living, Remembering the Dead
An old friend of mine, living in Germany, described to me over the phone what had just happened in the village we had lived in together for some years: Folks gathered in the cemetery. Families had decorated the graves of their loved ones and ancestors, with flowers, mementos, and candles. The priest and acolytes processed…
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Non solum: Who Should Pick the Music?
How do we best select music that meets the ritual, musical, and pastoral requirements of the liturgy?
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Cardinal George on the New Translation in America
Cardinal Geoprge thinks that the new translation has been “well done” and “the collects are truly beautiful.”
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All Souls and Clericalism
If those in Holy Orders of Religious Life consider their spirituality to be superior to that of the People of God, then we have a problem.
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“What We’re Reading”
I had conflicting feelings of belonging: I belonged to God; but did I? What does it mean to be without grace, or schismatic? The way we employ our sacramental vocabulary inherited from late antiquity matters today, because ultimately, Christianity is about belonging to the communion of the Holy Spirit.
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 87
Vatican website translation: 81 [sic]. In order that the divine office may be better and more perfectly prayed in existing circumstances, whether by priests or by other members of the Church, the sacred Council, carrying further the restoration already so happily begun by the Apostolic See, has seen fit to decree as follows concerning the…
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Liturgy in Collegeville: From the Archives – Part XXV
The committee stated that it did not agree with the principle of reciting all 150 Psalms weekly. The Roman liturgy no longer has this principle, and we would like more readings.
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“What We’re Reading”
A classic theological text on time and memory, plus two novels.
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Still No Prefect at the Congregation for Divine Worship
Maybe tomorrow, as I’ve said to myself every day for the past two months.
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