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Day: August 9, 2010

  • An heretofore unremarked addition to the GIRM?

    Preparing liturgy is one of the most important tasks of everyone involved, presider, ministers, and assembly. Whatever mechanism for preparing liturgy a parish chooses (committee, advisory board, or the like), it needs to pay great attention to the rules of good communication and good liturgy.

  • Cardinal suggests preparing children for Communion even before age 7

    The head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, suggests preparing children for Communion even before age 7.

  • The Wonders of Work

    Each year on the first Monday of September we celebrate the civil holiday Labor Day. More than an excuse for a day off from work, it is fitting that at least once a year we pause as a nation to pray for the safety of all laborers, pray that all receive just wages and benefits,…

  • The Spirit of Vatican II

    Fr. O’Malley’s analysis of the genre, form, and content of the documents of Vatican II poses a formidable challenge to the ‘hermeneutic of continuity’ view. The ‘hermeneutic of continuity’ folks will have to demonstrate that they are reading the entirety of the Council, not just a few favored passages taken out of context.