Tag: Ordinary Form

Confusing Beauty with Baroque

The strongest force driving skepticism of liturgical reform is the “lack of reverence” some experience at the Ordinary Form.

December 13, 2014
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.

July 1, 2013
Fr. Pasley on the Distinctive Voices of the Ordinary Form of the Mass

Fr. Robert Pasley, the chaplain of the Church Music Association of America, has a written a lengthy addition to our conversation about the ways in which the forms of the Mass may enrich one another. I received permission to reprint it here on Pray Tell as part of my larger desire to create respectful dialogue.

July 21, 2012
“Authentic Liturgy, Authentic Chant”?

Father Anthony, Gordon Truitt, and I were asked to write about the missal of Pope Benedict XVI for the GIA Quarterly. My contribution is intended to be a contribution to the conversation about the relationship between the ordinary and the extraordinary forms of the liturgy, particularly the Mass.

September 15, 2011