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Archive for category Eucharist

Byzantine Commentaries on the Eucharist (or: Of Studies, Liturgical, Part III)

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.

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The Truth?

Michele Somerville is the author of a December 1 article in the Huffington Post, “The Truth Behind the Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal”.

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The Anglican Bishop of London on the Eucharist

A recent pastoral letter from Richard Chartres, Bishop of London entitled ‘Do This in Memory of Me’.

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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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