Tag: GIRM
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No “extra” Hosts
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — I am asking for the help of Pray Tell readers in this post. A particular bugbear of mine is when those who participate in the Eucharist are not offered Communion that is consecrated at the liturgy they are attending.
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Disambiguating the “quod” clause in GIRM section 299
The Latin of a controversial rubric in the Roman Missal is inherently ambiguous. Neither a Vatican clarification nor strong comments from participants on both sides of the liturgical spectrum have made it less so.
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More on “offering” at Mass
My thesis: the way the Presentation of the Gifts is done almost universally today is not what the rite is actually asking for.
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Non Solum: The Composition and Appearance of Eucharistic Bread
Many congregations today struggle with the decision to use the store bought wafers or to bake their own bread.
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Bishop Sample’s Pastoral Letter on Sacred Music in Divine Worship
The reinterpretation of Vatican II continues apace.
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Mass-ive improvement in eight easy steps?
Fr. Alexander Lucie-Smith offer eight tips for celebrants that he believes will improve Mass.
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A GIRM Compendium?
The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments is apparently preparing a document that is a sort of “how-to” manual for celebrating Mass.
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Against Reading the Passion of the Lord in Parts
Mark F. Hoggard writes: “I still see practices that suggest that the Passion and Death of Jesus is something that we need to ‘act out’ or dramatize like it never happened, in order to make it more ‘interesting’ for our assemblies.”
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Sanity on the Cup from Archbishop Schnurr
“I was informed by the USCCB that it is not a matter of the indult expiring. Rather the indult has been supplanted by The General Instruction of the Roman Missal.”