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Day: September 29, 2011

  • Letters to The Tablet, 17 September

    …I was responding rather sharply to a piece by Fr Allen Morris, until recently secretary of the English and Welsh bishops’ liturgy office. On 17 September, he had written a letter defending against a critic what is said in a UK edition of the new texts, namely that the bishops had been overseeing their gestation…

  • Letters to The Tablet on the new missal – mostly negative

    “The unconscious vulgarity of this change [from ‘cup’ to ‘chalice’], at the most dramatic moment in the whole liturgy, is horrifying, as though the dignity of the word ‘cup’ were not upheld by the hands that held it and passed it round…” – Fr. Sebastian Moore, OSB

  • Beautiful liturgy and the poor and hungry

    “The beauty of art and material things in the sacred liturgy is meant to lead us to contemplate God who is beauty…Let us recall too the warning of St John Chysostom that if we adorn our liturgies with precious items and artworks, we should be all the more mindful to also cloth the naked, feed…

  • Irish religious tried to delay new Missal

    The Conference of Religious of Ireland tried to persuade the Irish Bishops’ Conference to delay the introduction of the new translation of the Missal, fearing it would cause further difficulties for a Church already in crisis.

  • Lost in Translation: Part 2

    Part 2 of Gabe Huck’s 4-part series. “Once you get beyond “Push” or “Pull” on the shop door, translators must make judgments where right and wrong are probably not the best words to describe what happens. No translation will say exactly what the original says to one for whom the original language is the mother…