Month: August 2011
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“Twin Cities Mass Settings” – not just for Minnesotans
Michael Silhavy is an astute commentator on things musical.
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Female servers for the Pope
The Vatican has given a green light for female altar servers for the papal visit to Germany.
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How would you consecrate 1,500,000 hosts?
I take it as given that it is a good thing to gather a million-and-a-half young people from around the world to pray with each other and with the Supreme Pontiff. My question is whether it is possible to celebrate the Eucharist in a worthy manner at such an event.
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Phoenix cathedral bans girl servers
… to promote vocations to the priesthood.
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August 20: St. Bernard, Bees, and Bodies
On this feast day of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, I give thanks for the reminder that Catholic liturgy needs both bees and bodies.
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Living with the Missal in Scotland
What kind of obedience do Catholics owe the Church, with reference to the new English translation of the Roman Missal? Even before its introduction this autumn, there has been a glimpse from Scotland of the way some parishes and their priests are reacting, not with open defiance, but with excuses and prevarication as to why…
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The New Missal Translation Is Not (Yet) a Big Deal for Everyone
As reported in Our Sunday Visitor, research by CARA, the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, indicates that less that a quarter of English-speaking Catholics are aware that there will be a new translation of the Mass this fall.
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Did you attend Assumption in a tree?
In Allouville-Bellefosse, you can go to mass in an 800-year-old tree.
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This looks like trouble: MisguidedMissal.com
Guess how they feel about the new translation?