Day: September 16, 2010
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Moravian cup of covenant
In the Moravian liturgical tradition the cup of covenant is not to be confused with Holy Communion, although terminology and form remind us of Communion.
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Verboten! Secular songs at funerals
No more romantic ballads, pop or rock music, political songs, football club songs at funerals in the Melbourne archdiocese.
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Greater divisions than ever since Summorum Pontificum
Matias Augé, former consulter to the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, states that Pope Benedict’s readmission of the celebration of the pre-Vatican II liturgy has not contributed to that “interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church” which the Pope had hoped for, but rather “the divisions have been deepened even more.”
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Newman’s odd feast day
This doesn’t sound like good news. Cardinal Newman’s feast day on the calendar will not be his day of death, but his day of ‘conversion’ when he was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
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Philippines Establishes Liturgical Music Commission
Fr. Genaro Diwa, the new Executive Secretary of the Philippine Episcopal Commission on Liturgy (ECL), successor to Fr. Anscar Chupungco, OSB, says that new commission on liturgical music is being organized. The hope is to encourage Philippine composers to work in liturgical music. He also hinted that a national hymnal might be in the future.
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Unrest in Irish Catholic Church
The first meeting of the Association of Irish Priests: “opposition among priests to a new English translation of the Mass.”