Day: October 19, 2012
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Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 8
Article 8 serves as a transition from the consideration of the nature of the liturgy to reflections on its role in the life of the Church. In J. D. Crichton’s lapidary sentence “[t]he liturgy recalls (anamnesis) the past events of salvation, makes Christ present here and now and looks both upwards to heaven and on…
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Hymnal Review, Part Four: The Vatican II Hymnal
The Vatican II Hymnal is at once the most complete, the most limited, and in some ways the most traditional of all three hymnals reviewed in this series.