Tag: Gotta Sing Gotta Pray
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Compassion and disappointment
by Jerry Galipeau “We are here to serve the singing and praying Church. But the Church that we are committed to serve—at least institutionally—is operating in ways that are unlike the past.”
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Final missal text sent to publishers
“Yesterday we received the files we need to begin constructing our worship resources for 2012, work that would have already been completed months ago had we had the texts.” — Jerry Galipeau
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Challenges and Questions
Now comes the challenge of trying to explain to people the mysterious moves of the past few months. Those who were on the fence, ready to give up on the Church, will only be more incensed by these latest moves. Those who have been champions of the principles espoused in Liturgiam Authenticam are now scratching…
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“A sense of demoralization” at GSGP
When the Vatican rejected the ICEL translation, I saw the joy and sparkle dim in his eyes.
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Frustration abounds
What Cardinal Arinze wrote in 2008 was, and I hesitate to say this because of my love of and fidelity to the Church, simply a lie.
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Where’s the text??
You’ll enjoy Jerry Galipeau’s report on what we know about the state of the new missal text. Almost nothing, it turns out.
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Congregationalism?
Frankly, there is part of me that believes that this frustration should be directed beyond the grave to the one that many are trying to call “the great.” For all that Pope John Paul II did for the Church, I wonder if his lasting legacy will be a more divided, more polarized Church. Only time…
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New and Revised Mass Settings
The BCDW is happy to allow some limited presentation of preview copies of selections from the [new] Order of Mass
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Reactions from the Pews: One Report
Those of us committed to the Church’s worship who want the implementation to go as well as possible will have our work cut out for us. The people in the pews will want to know just why we’re doing all this.