Day: November 15, 2011

  • From standing to kneeling during Communion

    On the first Sunday of Advent, along with the change of words, Bishop Hebda, as chief liturgist for his diocese of Gaylord (Michigan), has decided to make a posture change during the Communion Rite.

  • Models for the Emerging Church: Promises and Threats

    I recently scheduled Mass in Latin for students at the college where I teach…One of the most rigorously orthodox of our students said sweetly, succinctly, and accurately the morning after: “It was nice to be in touch with our tradition and to experience the Mass as did our grandparents, but there was a layer of…