The new Roman Missal (editio typica tertia) is not very new. But two new features are: a Vigil of the Epiphany and a Vigil of the Ascension, each with their own euchology and lectionary texts. But will these vigils be as unused as the ones already in the missal, such as tonight’s.
If you went to Mass the evening of August 14, what euchology was used, what lectionary readings?
So what are the “things that pertain to responsibility of the presider”? This sentence was added to the previous editions of the GIRM (see below).
Preparing liturgy is one of the most important tasks of everyone involved, presider, ministers, and assembly. Whatever mechanism for preparing liturgy a parish chooses (committee, advisory board, or the like), it needs to pay great attention to the rules of good communication and good liturgy. Three times between Paragraph 119 and [MORE...]
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...]
We reported here earlier about the Ambrosian lectionary controversy in Milan. Cardinal Biffi has criticized some of the archaisms reintroduced in the new edition. Here the main creator of the lectionary fires back.
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Here is Sandro Magister on the spat over the revised lectionary for the Ambrosian rite in Milan and some neighboring regions. Good heavens, seven Sundays of Advent…would that mean Christmas marketing starts in August rather than September?
