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Archive for February 15th, 2010

Some stats

On the coming English missal, the movers have 4,676 and the stallers have 16,476.

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What Are Young People Like?

This is very interesting and the presentation is user-friendly. The KCs and the Marists have conducted a survey of American Millennials (age 18 to 29) on spirituality – moral values, world views, religious experiences, and social issues. They seem to be interested in spirituality, relativistic (to use a slippery term) on morality, and concerned about social issues. As we say in Minnesota, not half bad. Could be worse.

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Ambrosian Imbroglio, Parte Seconda

We reported here earlier about the Ambrosian lectionary controversy in Milan. Cardinal Biffi has criticized some of the archaisms reintroduced in the new edition. Here the main creator of the lectionary fires back.

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Lectio Divina, Benedictine style

Looking to jump-start your Lent this year? How about some lectio divina (“sacred reading”), the Benedictine manner of prayerful reading of Scripture? The abbot of Saint John’s Abbey, Abbot John Klassen OSB, talks about it here in his usual friendly and approachable manner.

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