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...]
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Three Judgments?
May 11
What is so important about the “three judgments” for choosing Mass music? They are not just rubrical adjustments, but foundations of the very purpose of Mass itself. A parish-wide and diocese-wide solution should be found.
On Words at the Mass
Mar 22
Just yesterday I heard on public radio a word I could not comprehend. The word was: the “siria”. I knew it was not Syria, so I put on my thinking cap and realized she was saying “This area.” How could such a mangling take place? Easy. More and more English-speakers are placing final consonants on the next word (where possible), as for instance, “client’s policies” would be pronounced “client spolicies”. A number of which have [MORE...]