“The long-standing debate has focused too narrowly on the work of translating. One thing is the role of translators (who by now have carefully and conscientiously done their job), and another is the role of the presiding and other ministers.” – Bishop Cullinane, New Zealand
Archive for category Presiding
“At our pre-Lent Priest’s Conference the hot topic was the implementation of the missal. I thought you might get a kick out of these words from our bishop. . . .”
At NPM’s website you can hear the presidential-congregational chants of the upcoming Roman missal
Fr. X was what you might call a Catholic McCarthyite.
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.
The communications director for Bishop Slattery’s diocese of Tulsa, Okalahoma, wrote a letter to America magazine to defend his bishop’s use of the cappa magna.
Are Catholics soon going to see their parish priest celebrating Mass with an iPad instead of traditional liturgical books?
The iPad Missal App
Jun 18
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Here is Fr. Z of WDTPRS proclaiming the current and the forthcoming translation of Eucharistic Prayer I.
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.