Month: August 2010
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What to Look For in the New Translation
One sees how Rome has managed to paint itself into a corner. Its credibility will probably take a hit now no matter what it does. Either Rome loses points for failing to be pastoral; or by being pastoral, Rome loses points for having no principles it applies with consistency.
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Mystagogical musical musings at NDCL
I have posted four “mystagogical musical musings” at the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy on four of the longer congregational chants: the Glory to God, the Holy, Holy, Holy, the Lord’s Prayer, and the Lamb of God. I look at both the new text and the new English chant settings.
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Notre Dame Center for Liturgy: New Director
Tim O’Malley is now acting director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy (formerly the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy).
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Worship and power
There are problems here about what counts as good translation. There are also serious questions about how authority is being exercised. In some ways, there are overlaps with the clerical-abuse scandal.
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Announcement: Post-doc Fellowship in Liturgical Studies, at Yale
For more on this possibility, visit the website of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.
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Ratzinger and his former students meeting
Professor Ratzinger (also known as Pope Benedict XVI) is meeting with his his Schülerkreis this Friday to Sunday to talk about the interpretation of Vatican II, especially the liturgy constitution.
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Huh? How’s that?
Twelve-year-old Catholic school student, Brandon Sheehan, who is a descendant of Mary MacKillop, will travel to Rome for her canonization on 17 October, said Catholic Education of the Parramatta Diocese.
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For the future – singing the Mass
“Maybe the greatest challenge that lies before us is the invitation once again to sing the Mass rather than merely to sing at Mass.” – Msgr. Wadsworth, ICEL director
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Frustration abounds
What Cardinal Arinze wrote in 2008 was, and I hesitate to say this because of my love of and fidelity to the Church, simply a lie.