Month: January 2010
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The “Reform of the Reform” Set to Music
Heard at the CMAA church music colloqium: “How not to alienate Catholics in the pews, many of whom have never heard sacred music in church.”
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Ever Ancient, Ever New: Preparing for the Revised Roman Missal
The Southwest Liturgical Conference hosts an annual conference every year. I want to invite you to join us for a week of study and reflection on the revised texts.
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Catherine of Cleves prayerbook available online
The prayerbook of Catherine of Cleves is one of the most beautiful — perhaps the most beautiful — I have ever studied. Now all the major illuminations and the facing pages are available online, thanks to the Morgan Library.
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“Liturgical Studies and Liturgical Renewal,” Fr. Anscar Chupungco, OSB
World-renowned expert in liturgical inculturation, Fr. Anscar Chupungco OSB, challenged recent announcements on liturgical reform decrying their “absence of a historical and cultural approach to the liturgy, or, in a word, the inability to fuse together the two basic concepts of Vatican II’s liturgical renewal, namely sound tradition and legitimate progress.”
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Revised Missal Translation – a webcatechesis
The Notre Dame Center for Liturgy has put online the first group of videotaped lectures we have been gathering about the revised Missal translation. You will find a link at liturgy.nd.edu.
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Infant Baptism — auf deutsch (Updated 1-25)
The Holy See has approved some significant alterations to the Roman rite for the German-speaking church in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg, and Lichtenstein. The main innovation is infant baptism in two stages – first, a blessing of the infant with the oil of catechumens; second, after a period of preparation by the parents, baptism.
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Continuing to Pray for Haiti: Free Resource
Pauline Books and Media is offering a free e-book of prayers, visible online and downloadable as a .pdf for printing and distribution, as “a useful way to focus intentions and be in spirit with those who need us most.”
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Ecumenical Problem or Pastoral Solution?
A charitable reading of Anglicanorum Coetibus, one that seeks to understand it not as the creation of a new ecumenical problem but as the pastoral solution it is intended to be, will allow us all — Anglicans and Roman Catholics alike — to press ahead with the “collaboration” and “shared witness” and pursuit of deepened…
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Coming from GIA
PrayTell gives the inside scoop on coming hymnals from GIA Publications in conjunction with the new missal. Our conversation partner is Bob Batastini, longtime GIA senior editor.