How do our sisters and brothers around the world praise God? How can “we” use “their” music?
Archive for category Inculturation
Liturgy experts see a possibility of the new English Roman Missal dropping the currently used five special masses for India, which they say would trigger protests.
The Catholic Church has come up with its own version of the prayer,
which, funnily enough, is more fervently royalist in tone than that of the Established Church.
Lent Meets Bikers Week
Mar 13
A two-for-one with ashes?
“It is important to appreciate that language is not divorced from life. Rather, it is expressive of it, organically so. A dead language is such because the culture it was once expressive of is no longer. Merely translating such a language, out of place and time, is to adhere to arcane interests and cling to a corpse.”
Sounds of a Mass in Nairobi
Feb 17
Catholic News Service international editor Barb Fraze is part of a group visiting Kenya. She has filed an audio report about what a Mass sounds like at a parish in the slums of Nairobi.
Readers of Pray Tell may remember that I posted a note of appreciation for the beautiful texts appearing in the National Proper approved for the dioceses of Ireland. These explanatory notes shed light on the propers for St. Ita and St. Brigid.
Events in Cairo are having an impact on our world. How do we pray for and with the Egyptian people?
by Fr. Edward Foley, Capuchin
at the January 6, 2011 meeting of the Catholic Academy for Liturgy.
Our challenges: inculturation, sensus fidelium, collegiality, hospitality and the new evangalization, ecumenism, liturgical theology, amplified hybridization of the Roman rite.
by J. Michael Joncas
What might this medieval practice of troping the introit suggest to us? No premium was placed on absolute liturgical uniformity from community to community. The tropes were ephemeral; they responded to a particular location, era and culture and disappeared from the liturgy when any of those factors changed.