Category: Lectionary / Liturgy of Word
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The Sunday of the Word of God
RITA FERRONE — In 2019, through his motu proprio Aperuit illas, Pope Francis established the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time as the Sunday of the Word of God.
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DDW confirms new Lectionary for Great Britain
The Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has announced that “the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has confirmed the approval by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales for the new Lectionary.” Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Scotland will also share this new edition of the Lectionary for Mass. Their new…
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Did you Celebrate the Vigil of Pentecost?
Paschalis Sollemnitatis, the 1988 CDW letter on the celebration of Easter, suggests that we should celebrate a Vigil at Pentecost: Encouragement should be given to the prolonged celebration of Mass in the form of a vigil, whose character is not baptismal as in the Easter Vigil, but is one of urgent prayer, after the example…
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Handwritten liturgical manuscripts
All of us are familiar with the liturgical books of earlier centuries and, in particular, from centuries predating the invention of the printing press. The scholarly editions of such works as the Ordines Romani are mainstays of liturgical scholarship. Yet once liturgical books began to be printed, the custom of having handwritten manuscripts fell out…
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ESV Catholic Edition not Catholic enough?
In 2019 the Augustine Institute in Colorado published the English Standard Version Catholic Edition. This is a Catholic edition of the popular Evangelical Protestant translation that is owned by Crossway publishing house. This translation is closely related to the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. But it is revised so that the new edition…
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For the Season of the Word: A Biography of the Lectionary
“A treasure trove of insights which flow from the author’s work on this book…an important and exemplary…partner in formation with the Lectionary and the liturgical year.”
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Brief Book Review: The Promise of Not-Knowing
“This book reminds us of how a close reading of the original language with counsel from a creative biblical scholar can re-awaken understandings that offer even radical new insights into who God is and who we are and what it means to be a follower of Christ Jesus.”
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Show and Tell: Summer with the Deutsches Liturgisches Institut
A summer school of international proportions.
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Brief Book Review: The Women’s Lectionary
“Ashley Wilcox urges preachers to take a year to focus on women in the Bible and feminine images of God.”