Tag: Lectionary
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Anything you can sing, I can sing … correcter.
Yes, the weekly song of the assembly needs a connection to the lections of the day. […] No, we cannot sing just anything at Mass.
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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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Brief Book Review: The Women’s Lectionary
“Ashley Wilcox urges preachers to take a year to focus on women in the Bible and feminine images of God.”
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In This Issue: Studia Liturgica 51, no. 2 (2021)
Summary of the latest issue of Studia Liturgica.
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Liturgical reading and the Rule of Benedict
One of the most important patterns of liturgical prayer is the periodic return to certain texts and actions—for example, the slow turning of the three-year lectionary cycle, or the genuflections and signs of the cross that mark our crossing the threshold between sacred and ordinary space and time. At the heart of these patterns is…
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The scandalous (but true) story behind ICEL’s 1969 Lectionary for Mass
The untold story of how the ICEL 1969 Lectionary for Mass was put together so quickly.
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Rachel Held Evans is blogging the lectionary
“I discovered this whole world of online collaboration happening among clergy from Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, and Lutheran churches (and more!) all working through the same few passages…. This is exactly how the Bible is meant to be engaged—collaboratively, in community, with a diversity of people and perspectives represented.”
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Did the pre-Vatican II Mass really have more Scripture than now?
I thought it’d be interesting once to do the math. So I made a little chart with the 1962 Scripture readings (including the propers) on the left and the reformed lectionary readings (presuming no propers) on the right for the coming Sunday, July 7.
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More about SC 24, Sacred Scripture, and the Lectionaries
All readers of this blog are grateful to Father Joncas for his series on re-reading of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy [SC]. But do these same readers (especially the ‘lurkers’) think that his questions about §24 were answered? They are found in his initial entry, in his seventh comment, in his twenty-fourth comment, and in…