Month: June 2010
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A Little Bit on Eucharistic Reservation
Among many (though not all) Anglicans and a growing number of Lutherans, Eucharistic reservation for the sick and others who are absent from the liturgy is coming back into favor… I call your attention to a post on Daniel Mitsui’s blog The Lion and the Cardinal with some fascinating images of Eucharistic Doves — hanging…
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Let us pray for the Catholic Bishops
Each Catholic Bishop at the head of a diocese in the English-speaking world has a challenging task ahead of him: the implementation of the new English missal. He can hardly be looking forward to it.
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The new translation under the microscope
As a policy, PrayTell does not unveil to the public translations of not-yet-approved or never-approved liturgical prayers. But when translations leak out on other websites, we permit ourselves to note them or report others’ comments on them.
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The Collegeville Conference on Music, Liturgy, and the Arts
CCMLA, “New Music, New Texts: Preparing for a New Missal,” ran this week, Monday night through yesterday afternoon. It was a rousing success, with over 150 participants.
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Jesus honored by (means of) bees
Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny has sculpted Jesus out of honeycomb with the assistance of 40,000 bees. It reminds me of some of the more rhapsodic Christian musing on the Paschal candle.
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The new missal in Ireland
Pray Tell recently visited with Fr. Paddy Jones of the National Centre for Liturgy in Ireland. We asked about their plans to implement the new missal.
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Liturgy according to the world: a dead end
Archbishop Chaput agreed with Fr. Barron that in recent decades the “professional liturgical establishment” chose to shape the liturgy according to the world, which has proven to be “a dead end.”
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New and Revised Mass Settings
The BCDW is happy to allow some limited presentation of preview copies of selections from the [new] Order of Mass