Tag: GIRM 2002
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Can we sing just anything at Mass?
Some have seemed to question if what we sing needs to tie in with the scriptures of the day at all.
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The English GIRM 2002 and 2011 Side-by-side
Earlier, I said I would make available my side-by-side comparison of the provisional (2002) English translation and the final (2011) translation of the General Instruction of the Roman Missal. Here are the first ninety articles.
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An heretofore unremarked addition to the GIRM?
Preparing liturgy is one of the most important tasks of everyone involved, presider, ministers, and assembly. Whatever mechanism for preparing liturgy a parish chooses (committee, advisory board, or the like), it needs to pay great attention to the rules of good communication and good liturgy.
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How we got the current GIRM
For those interested in how the Roman Church manages to produce and translate documents, here is my recollection of how we got the current General Instruction of the Roman Missal.
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The Genius of the Roman Rite, by Keith Pecklers SJ
The author, Professor of Liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and Professor of Liturgical History at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome, is a well-known writer and speaker; and he has done us all a service with this timely book. It should be required reading for anyone concerned with the forthcoming new Missal, translation for…