April 28, 2010

What Can the Middle Ages Do For Me?

The bewildering variety of the medieval liturgy need not scare us. It’s not necessarily a model for how things should be now.

I asked Bruce Harbert how long he thought the new translation, the first effort to implement Liturgiam authenticam, might last.

After the opening collect the celebrant shouted to my friend, the other concelebrant, “Do you guys wanna go have coffee uptown after this?”

Fr. Richard Hilgartner will succeed Msgr. Anthony Sherman at the head of the BCDW.

Approval of the new missal is now very close. The Holy Father said this to Vox Clara.