Day: June 8, 2011
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Cross-blog Considerations on “Ethnic” Music and Spirituals
Just to alert our readers to a number of excellent, thought-provoking, cross-blog considerations relevant to liturgical music and of interest to at least some Pray Tell readership. . .
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Reserved seating
Have you ever heard “That’s my seat!” on a Sunday morning?
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Lots of folks come thru Christ Church…
Pentecost fashion tips.
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Religious art: fig leaf or full frontal?
Pope Benedict XVI recently praised the use of nudity in the 16th-century masterpiece, “The Last Judgment,” which dominates an entire wall behind the altar in the famed Sistine Chapel. “The bodies painted by Michelangelo are filled with light, life and splendor.“He wanted to show that our bodies contain a mystery: within them the spirit is…
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Trending to Traditional
“There are some churches designed by famous architects which, though sophisticated, are rather poor places of worship,” said Duncan Stroik. He mentions Seattle University’s Chapel of St. Ignatius, the Chapel of St. Basil at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn, and the Cathedral of St. Mary of the…