Jonathan Day
I am a writer and consultant. My church home is the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate Conception (Farm Street Church) in central London, where I serve at the altar and help with adult education at the Mount Street Jesuit Centre.
Posts by Jonathan Day:
What did the pope really tweet?
Friday, March 22nd, 2013Tags: Comme le prévoit, Latin, Liturgiam Authenticam, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, The Telegraph, Translation Issues, Translation Principles, Twitter, Vernacular
Posted in Humor, Translation / New Missal | 3 Comments
Reading the Language of Papal Clothing
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013Tags: Mary Douglas, Papal Liturgy, Papal Transition, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis, Vestments, Vesture
Posted in Art and Architecture, Liturgical Spirituality, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis | 18 Comments
A scale of attitudes toward different forms of the Mass [UPDATED]
Monday, February 25th, 2013Tags: Jack Rakosky, Likert scale, Surveys & Polls
Posted in Eucharist, Pope Benedict XVI, Reform of the Reform, Vatican II | 161 Comments
A structural approach to the Latin prayers of the Roman Missal
Saturday, January 19th, 2013Tags: Latin
Posted in Eucharist, Teaching Liturgy | 14 Comments
How the Grinch mistranslated Christmas
Thursday, December 27th, 2012Tags: CS Lewis, David Lodge, Midnight Mass
Posted in Liturgical Spirituality, Liturgical year, Translation / New Missal | 87 Comments
Say the black (more or less) and do just as you please
Saturday, December 8th, 2012Tags: Anglican Ordinariate, Say the Black Do the Red
Posted in Church Reform, Reform of the Reform | 49 Comments
What active role does the assembly take in the Tridentine Mass?
Wednesday, December 5th, 2012Tags: Fortescue, Tridentine Mass
Posted in Eucharist, Lay Ministry, Liturgical year, Liturgy of the Hours, Reform of the Reform | 136 Comments
On the wisdom of obliquity
Tuesday, October 9th, 2012Tags: Translation Issues
Posted in Church Reform, Eucharist, Liturgical Spirituality, Reform of the Reform, Translation / New Missal | 23 Comments
Extraordinary blessings in the Communion queue
Saturday, August 18th, 2012Tags: Blessings, Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
Posted in Eucharist, Lay Ministry, Ordained Ministry | 53 Comments
Has the Vatican War been Lost?
Thursday, July 5th, 2012Posted in Vatican II | 75 Comments