Month: August 2012
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A bishop’s praise of Bishop Trautman
Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg pays tribute to Bishop Donald Trautman, emeritus of Erie, PA, and tells a story about this “Lion of the Liturgy” that I had never heard before.
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Quantum Theology: “Bless you!”
From Quantum Theology: “Making sacred our everyday objects — cars, candles, or computers — draws us more deeply into the preeminent sacrament of Christ’s Body and Blood.”
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You Don’t Know Jack… About the Feast of the Assumption
Funny video on the Assumption, including some nice interview moments.
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Infrequent Worshipers and the new Mass texts
I was at a funeral yesterday, and in the packed church it was quite obvious that there were two linguistic groups, about evenly matched: those still routinely praying the older English texts, and those who have by now settled into the new ones.
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Discussion Question of the Week: In our practice, have Gregorian Chant Propers really ever been the norm?
My thesis is that they/we are trying to promote as the norm something which in practice never was the norm during the past 600 years and more.
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A “default” communion canticle: Wisdom 16: 20–21, 26; 17:1.
This morning’s use of the Canticle of Wisdom as the reading for morning prayer in Give Us This Day (alas not used in the Lectionary) put me in mind of its significance as one of the default communion psalms and canticles.
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Burghardt on Imagination in Preaching
“Late in life I have begun to grasp why some pulpits confront the preacher graphically with the request of the Greeks to Philip: “Sir, we would like to see Jesus” (John 12:21). How simple a request… and how stunning! Here is our burden and our joy: to help believing Christians to see Jesus — not…
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What Mass Settings Are We Using?
At the recent Collegeville Conference on Music, Liturgy, and the Arts, Michael Silhavy (now at GIA Publications) gave a plenum presentation on Mass settings with the revised Missal translation. This post is based on his remarks and the participants’ comments.