Month: March 2012
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“A Spirit of Compunction”?
by Andrew Cameron-Mowat, SJ. “The Prayer over the People from which this phrase comes was heard for the first time at the end of Mass on Ash Wednesday this February. The prayer illustrates two of the issues that have emerged from the use of the new translation of the Missal…”
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Hymn of the Day for Palm Sunday, Year B
Here is my hymn text for Palm Sunday in Year B of the Roman Catholic three-year Sunday lectionary cycle. I look forward to readers’ suggestions for changes in word choice, rhyme scheme, progress of thought, and hymn-tune pairing. This is the last in the series of hymns texts that I will be posting.
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The Genevan Psalter in the 21st century
The Psalm Project is a group of musicians pairing contemporary translations of the Psalms with contemporary versions of tunes from the Genevan Psalter.
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Praying the Angelus: The Interruption of the Annunciation
With the Feast of the Annunciation approaching – although it will be overshadowed by March 25th also being the fifth Sunday of Lent this year – I am thinking more purposefully about a centuries-old devotional practice I (re-)committed myself to some months ago, namely the praying of the Angelus at noontime.
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Fictional monks
The monkish habit itself is fraught with potential fear – it’s unsurprising that so many ghost stories feature an unquiet brother, hooded and menacing.
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Funeral Pall Commemorates Victims of Titanic Disaster
St. Anne’s (Anglican) Cathedral in Belfast, Ireland, marks the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic by commissioning a funeral pall.
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Latest on the Missal: New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands
A review from New Zealand, a protest in Canada, a red flag in the Netherlands.
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What makes a hymn Catholic?
“…There are good reasons for Catholics to sing hymns—and Protestant hymns, at that. Even as they strive for excellence in Gregorian chant and other areas of musical renewal, Catholics would do well to remember what good hymns can do and why excellence in hymn-singing should be part of the Catholic liturgical renewal.”
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Living water and the comfort of God
I enjoyed an image from Give Us This Day’s morning prayer today.