Pray Tell visits with Bishop Gregory Aymond, archbishop of New Orleans. Bishop Aymond begins his term as chairman of the Bishop’s Committee on Divine Worship this coming November.
Archive for category BCDW / USCCB
New missal in Milwaukee
Aug 5
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a story today on the USCCB-FDLC workshop being held today in Milwaukee on the new English missal. Pray Tell is working on finding out how the meeting goes.
Here’s the latest on the upcoming (we think it still probably is) English missal from a pretty official source.
Pray Tell encourages everyone to start praying! As to what to pray for…well, we leave that up to you.
Fr. Hilgartner to head BCDW
Apr 28
Fr. Richard Hilgartner will succeed Msgr. Anthony Sherman at the head of the BCDW.
Grail for $ale – UPDATE 4/23
Apr 19
It is a problem, I think, when you have to pay a publisher and a monastery to use the Church’s official text.
The following has been released today by Ronald Herzog, Bishop of Alexandria, LA, presumably copying and pasting from a communication from Msgr Anthony Sherman of the BCDW:
I am happy to inform you that the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has granted the recognitio for the Revised Grail Psalter by the Monks of Conception Abbey for liturgical use in the Dioceses of the United States, which has been approved by the [MORE...]
It’s harder than you might think to produce a vernacular (eg English) missal. What should be included? Well, everything that’s in the Latin missal, you say. And then the discussion begins.
Not So Fast
Feb 27
It’s anybody’s guess when the new English missal will be approved. My crystal ball is at the shop for a checkup so I can’t make any predictions today.
The realistic expectation is that confirmation will come this spring, with about a year’s worth of catechesis and printing of books to follow. …