Tag: Msgr. M. Francis Mannion
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Viewpoint: The Key to “Good” Liturgy is Good Pastoral Ministry
The fundamental problem here is that too much is being asked of the liturgy. The Church is expected to yield up all its riches on Sunday morning, and disappointment occurs when this does not occur and the liturgy collapses under the weight.
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Viewpoint: Church Needs New Language in Explaining Its Teaching on Sexuality
What may we expect when the Synod of Bishops reconvenes in 2015? I expect the emergence of a unified consensus on the issues of the Synod that just ended. While there will be no doctrinal changes, there will hopefully emerge positive strategies for dealing pastorally with difficult issues regarding marriage and sexuality.
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Viewpoint: The Ongoing Problem of Liturgical Clericalism
Liturgical clericalism occurs when the role of those in holy orders overpowers the Church’s rites and disempowers the baptized from the full and active participation in the liturgy for which the twentieth-century liturgical movement and Vatican II called.
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Viewpoint: New Bible Translation – The Message – Is a Notable Achievement
I recommend highly The Message: Catholic/Ecumenical Edition, and find it very helpful for reading alongside The New American Bible, with which we are familiar from the liturgy.
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Viewpoint: A World-Wide Persecution of Christians is Well Underway
Why are Christians in the West not aware of this terrible holocaust? For one thing the media do not report the persecution of Christians, and consider such news “politically incorrect.” Political leaders, for various reasons, are deaf to cries for help.
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Viewpoint: What is the Definition of a Really Active Catholic?
So, if you are a Catholic who cannot do much more than go to Mass on Sundays–but put your Christian heart and soul into your “secular” activities, then you are a really active Catholic.
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Interviewing Liturgical Leaders: M. Francis Mannion
“When it comes down to it, the problems to be faced are not so much liturgical rites, but the ability of the people to participate actively in the liturgy. Liturgical education is a far greater challenge than making ritual and verbal changes in the liturgy.”
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Viewpoint: Are Pope Francis’ Achievements Substantial or Mere Symbolism?
More than one commentator has suggested recently that Pope Francis is all symbolism and little substance. I disagree. (For one thing, I think symbolism is substance.)
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Viewpoint: Corpus Christi and the “Blessed Sacrament of the Mass”
This Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), the occasion each year when periods of exposition, adoration, and Benediction are most common. This would be a good time in which to reflect on the practice of Eucharistic devotion–and to ask what the Church might learn from popular…