Month: April 2014
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Explosive Table Reading
“Reading will always accompany the meals of the brothers,” St. Benedict admonishes in Chapter 38 of his Rule for Monasteries.
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Cardinal Marx: “A Church that has an answer to everything is not credible.”
The truth of the faith is “not simply a system that we defend, but rather, the person of Jesus Christ whom we encounter,” the cardinal said.
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Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXIV
Mass, DURING WHICH a choir sang chants in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. Why the blazes can’t we just have a Mass that is a Mass! The Constitution on the Liturgy is already a dead letter for many!
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Musings on the New Missal
When the new missal came out, at first I thought I’d correct its biggest problems when I celebrated Mass.
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Viewpoint: How Successful is the Post-Vatican II Liturgy?
I would identify six areas in which the practice of the liturgy can be improved.
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Non Solum: Baptismal Vespers
“Looking ahead a little to Easter (yes, already!), one of the customs suggested in the Liturgy of the Hours is the revival of ‘Baptismal Vespers.'”
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A rare opportunity to peruse Richard Proulx’s complete works!
This remarkable collection will make its public appearance for the first time at CCMLA. Learn how the Proulx collection came to be, what gems have been unearthed from the collection, and hear inspiring personal stories about the man himself from Michael Silhavy, a long-time friend of Proulx who worked closely with him on his hymnary…