Tag: Preface
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Does Easter Ask Too Much…?
“Therefore, overcome with paschal joy, every land, every people exults in your praise and even the heavenly Powers, with the angelic hosts, sing together the unending hymn of your glory, as they acclaim…” So concludes every Easter Preface in the third edition of the Roman Missal, an ebullient departure from the more succinct conclusion of…
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Two Prefaces for the Lenten Season
“Two Lenten prefaces raise questions, one about judgment and one about competence.” – Alan Griffiths
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Second Advent preface
This week we use the second of the Advent Prefaces from the Roman Missal. I am puzzled by its third paragraph. – Msgr. Bruce Harbert, former executive director of ICEL