- What do you have if you have a pallium? Should you seek immediate medical care?
- Can you tell a liturgical reformer from a reformer of liturgical reform? Can you negotiate with either?
- True or False: Ad orientem is a carpet store on Madison Avenue.
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Welcome to Pray Tell, a blog that gives practical wisdom about prayer, sacraments, and the community of the faithful – in short, worship. Created especially for pastors, liturgists, musicians, and scholars, Pray Tell is informal, conversational, even humorous, but also – we hope – always well-informed and intellectually grounded.
This blog is not associated with Pray Tell: An open forum on faith in South Texas.


#1 by Fr. Jan Michael Joncas on January 10, 2010 - 2:27 pm
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I am delighted to be considered a regular contributor to “Pray Tell” and hope that my contributions would clearly offer wisdom or wit in reference to our worship.
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#2 by Dave Ceasar Dela Cruz on July 19, 2010 - 7:47 pm
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Hi, Father! I am one of the avid users of your liturgical songs here in the Philippines. I can’t believe I am sending a message you right now. Thanks be to God and I will pray for you always!
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#3 by Andrew Cameron-Mowat SJ on February 28, 2010 - 10:08 am
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I am very happy to see so many high quality and thoughtful liturgical scholars on this site. I plan to look in often!
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#4 by Richard Plavo on November 10, 2010 - 9:25 pm
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I wonder why they are not literal in translating “omnium circumstantium” in the roman canon
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#5 by Joe Connolly on December 22, 2010 - 8:57 am
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Seems like a good website for open discussion of issues.
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#6 by Lola McGourty on May 25, 2011 - 5:20 pm
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I can answer the “ad orientum” question because my former pastor sprang this Mass on us one Sunday morning. As a young child all I ever saw was adult backs during Mass.
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Lola McGourty