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As we mark the 48th anniversary of Sacrosanctum Concilium today, please pause for a moment to remember the Liturgical Pioneers, Pastoral Musicians and Liturgists who have gone before you.
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.
Vatican II Limericks
Oct 3
You’ve read reports from the Second Vatican Council before, but never quite like these!
…I was responding rather sharply to a piece by Fr Allen Morris, until recently secretary of the English and Welsh bishops’ liturgy office. On 17 September, he had written a letter defending against a critic what is said in a UK edition of the new texts, namely that the bishops had been overseeing their gestation for about 20 years.
“Oppose ecclesiastical power, but look with mercy on the custodians of this power. Try daily in your communities to build this Church-for-others of Vatican II. We sow, the Gospel also says, in tears; others, in their day, shall reap in joy. But let us not lament our fate. It is very laborious, difficult, but still wonderful.” — Abbot Giovanni Franzoni, OSB
In Praise of Rupture
Sep 27
Who could praise rupture?
Liturgy: First on the Agenda
Sep 26
A new organization of priests in the US is planning a convocation for next June. The topic–liturgy.
Report from New Zealand
Sep 19
Eighty-three percent gave a negative evaluation of the new translation.