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Archive for category Eucharist

New Book on Worship Music Practices in U.S. Congregations

The Sounds of our Offerings: Achieving Excellence in Church Music has just been published by the Alban Institute in cooperation with the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship. The work details a research project involving nine congregations: three Catholic, three Episcopal, and three Presbyterian, located in the Northwest, Southwest, Midwest, and Northeast of the United States.

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Tension between public and private worship

Pray Tell reader Jordan Zarembo reviews Kim Bowes’ work Private worship, public values, and religious change in late antiquity and finds similar tensions in the present-day church and the church of fourth-century Rome.

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From standing to kneeling during Communion

On the first Sunday of Advent, along with the change of words, Bishop Hebda, as chief liturgist for his diocese of Gaylord (Michigan), has decided to make a posture change during the Communion Rite.

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Phoenix bishop reverses ruling on wine for Communion

“There has been much needless hurt over this issue.”

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“Not only permitted but also encouraged and expected”

San Jose bishop issues letter clarifying diocesan policy regarding Communion under both kinds.

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Evelyn Waugh, Cardinal Heenan and Bitter Trials

Ignatius Press has just published a third (!) edition of A Bitter Trial, correspondence between Evelyn Waugh and Cardinal Heenan in the years from 1962 till Waugh’s death in 1966.

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A bishop writes of the Church’s failings

One Sunday, a man wore a hat and deliberately kept it on throughout the Mass. At one point, the celebrant sent the altar server to ask the usher to instruct the gentleman to remove his hat. “Thank God,” the man replied to the usher. “I’ve been coming to this parish every week for the past six months, and it’s taken this ploy with the hat to get someone to acknowledge my presence.”

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The Newman Hymnal

A new planning resource from the University of Notre Dame.

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Sanity on the Cup from Archbishop Schnurr

“I was informed by the USCCB that it is not a matter of the indult expiring. Rather the indult has been supplanted by The General Instruction of the Roman Missal.”

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Liturgical orientation and idolatry?

If I were to put this polemically, which of course I would never do, I would say that identifying the crucifix rather than the Eucharist as the point of orientation at Mass skirts the edge of idolatry.

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