Author: Jonathan Day
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A Mass lacking architectural integrity
Lots of things happened during a solemn parish liturgy, but they didn’t add up.
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Catholic worship has been transformed — over two centuries
A Benedictine monk describes how Catholic worship in Britain changed through 175 years
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The Postcommunion prayers of the Roman Missal: a new comparative analysis
A splendid new compilation and study of the postcommunion prayers in the Roman Missal will be useful to anyone interested in the liturgy as a source for theological reflection.
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Ecclesiastical ranks and their privileges
Catholic liturgy once involved a complex gamut of grades and distinctions, perhaps because it had developed in a world filled with social grades and distinctions. Both are now gone.
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‘Liturgical abuse’ is a linguistic misuse
Especially in liturgical matters, ‘abuse’ is a literalist mistranslation of the Latin abusus.
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A unique sight, and intensely interesting: Abp Alexander Sample celebrates Mass
Archbishop Alexander Sample, of Portland Oregon, celebrated a pontifical Tridentine Mass, and preached about celebrating a pontifical Tridentine Mass.
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Non solum: Sitting for choral Kyrie and Gloria
Our parish celebrates a solemn Latin Mass every Sunday, Missal of Paul VI, with the support of professional musicians.
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Cranmer’s language considered unorthodox and harmful
A scholar in liturgy who is also a professor of renaissance English and a convert from Anglicanism to Orthodoxy says that use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer material by English-speaking Antiochian Orthodox communities is harmful in many ways — in essence, it imports heresy into the liturgy. Much of his critique is relevant…