The Pope has chosen a rap theme song for his upcoming official visit to Britain.
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The Pope picks rap
Sep 6
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Extract from an e-mail dated August 25, 2010 from the General Secretary to the Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales:
“I am pleased to inform you that we have now received the ‘recognitio‘ from the Congregation of Divine Worship [sic] for the English language translation text of the Missale Romanum (tertio edition typica) [sic]. However we are still waiting to hear from the Holy See about the adaptations which were proposed by the bishops (e.g. [MORE...]
Some scholars have called the fourth and fifth centuries “the golden age” of the liturgy. I don’t agree with that assessment; I find beauties and troubling developments throughout the history of liturgy. But the Latin liturgy’s development in that period was certainly organic; in the modern period, the Latin liturgy’s development has in general been inorganic.
Anne Burke, a justice on the Illinois State Sumpreme Court and former head of the review board of lay people for the US bishops’ sex abuse policy, suggests that the Pope lose his red shoes and switch to a black cassock.
Here’s the latest on the upcoming (we think it still probably is) English missal from a pretty official source.
Papal Mass in England
Jul 29
Today’s Tablet reports on the Mass for the beatification of Cardinal Newman to be celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI.
How we got the current GIRM
Jul 19
For those interested in how the Roman Church manages to produce and translate documents, here is my recollection of how we got the current General Instruction of the Roman Missal.
We have now published the entire master’s thesis by J. Peter Nixon, “A Crisis of Reception: The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy and the Debate over the English Translation of the Roman Missal.”
Pray Tell encourages everyone to start praying! As to what to pray for…well, we leave that up to you.
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.