This post continues our occasional romp through Fr. Unterseher’s Ph.D. comprehensive examination topics, with a look at the historic mystagogical and allegorical commentaries on the Byzantine Rite Divine Liturgy.
Archive for category Eucharist
The Truth?
Dec 1
Michele Somerville is the author of a December 1 article in the Huffington Post, “The Truth Behind the Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal”.
A recent pastoral letter from Richard Chartres, Bishop of London entitled ‘Do This in Memory of Me’.
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.
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.
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.
“There has been much needless hurt over this issue.”
San Jose bishop issues letter clarifying diocesan policy regarding Communion under both kinds.
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.