Month: December 2011
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Quæsumus – We’re Still Asking
Quæsumus, the presidential orations often plead: we ask, we pray.
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Whacky nativity sets
Is there a point at which the point of the crèche is lost?
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Second Advent preface
This week we use the second of the Advent Prefaces from the Roman Missal. I am puzzled by its third paragraph. – Msgr. Bruce Harbert, former executive director of ICEL
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Open or Closed Architecture?
How open or closed, architecturally, is your church? How open or closed do you want it to be?
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Church Renovation: Before and After
A particularly striking church renovation at St. Theresa’s, Sugarland, Texas.
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“Loosely translated. . .”
The idea that the English word that looks the most like the Latin word is clearly the right choice seems clearly mistaken.
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Formally equivalent Christmas cookies
May these cookies be found acceptable in your sight, and be borne to a place of refreshment at your table, there to be served with milk or hot chocolate, or with your spirits.
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Person of the Year: A Missed Opportunity
Time just announced the Person of the Year. This was their chance to go to the next level. But no.
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Dance!
Maybe we should have more dance in the liturgy. Maybe the young people in the video could lead the newly blessed water into the sanctuary at next year’s Easter Vigil. Whaddayathink?