The Catholic Spirit, the archdiocesan newspaper of St Paul, Minneapolis, recently published this welcoming article by Joe Towalski. He offers a practical and simple way that regular parishioners can make young families feel welcome in the pews: speak up before the people who don’t want children in the mass have the chance.
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I believe the new verb is “to fisk” – to reprint an article with running commentary on it. It’s time for Pray Tell to give it a try. The article is “Pope’s Glasgow Mass in Latin” from HeraldScotland:
WOWWWWWWWWWWW was in the subject line of the email of the PT reader who sent this in.
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 head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera, suggests preparing children for Communion even before age 7.
Cardinal Walter Kasper, who just retired as president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said his biggest regret is that he did not achieve an agreement on a common Communion with Protestants.
The phantom document
Aug 3
Do you know about the Introduction to the Order of Mass: A Pastoral Resource of the Bishop’ Committee on the Liturgy?
The Eucharist is a project of solidarity for all of humanity and a great school of peace.
Here’s Phil Lawler at Catholic Culture on his experience of the Catholic liturgy in Ireland.