A Pray Tell reader writes with the following question – only the place name was changed. Oh, and I switched “battle” to “discussion,” since this is a blog about liturgy, about which there are never “battles.
Read moreMonth: July 2012
Cardinal Burke Feels the “Call of Beauty”
“It has a beauty to it that is beyond discussion, at least to reasonable people.” – Cardinal Burke on the pre-Vatican II “extraordinary form” Mass
Read moreGod Admits Humans Not Most Impressive Creation
‘It’s Mountains,’ Says Divine Being.
Read moreThis Week’s Discussion Question: Neo-Augustinian vs. Post Vatican II Thomist perspectives on liturgical reform and renewal
“Neo-Augustinian” approaches to the liturgy tend to view it in Platonic terms, the heavenly worship offered to the Father by the Son in the unity of the Spirit, joined in by the angels and saints, in which those on earth are privileged to gain some share by grace. “Post Vatican II Thomist” approaches to the liturgy would tend to view it in Aristotelian terms, a “complexus of sensible signs,” an earthly disclosure through culturally and historically conditioned semiotic systems of the graced condition of the world.
Read moreResponses to the Responses to “The CMAA Colloquium—a report”
Paul Ford here, not feeling very confident about how to make extensive replies to many but not all of the replies thus far to “The CMAA Colloquium—a report.”
Read moreEnough With the Reaction to the Reaction to the Reaction Already!
“I can’t tell you how wearying living with the reaction to the reaction to the reaction to the reaction is getting. Now that I’m seeing (as I knew was inevitable) the first signs of reaction by the very youngest seminarians to their trad ‘elders’.” – Sherry Anne Weddel
Read moreAssociation of US Catholic Priests calls for reexamination of liturgical translation
The new English missal has “caused disharmony, disruption and discord among many… frustrating rather than inspiring the Eucharistic prayer experience of the Christian faithful, thus leading to less piety and to less ‘full, active and conscious participation’.”
Read moreThe CMAA Colloquium—a report
I spent the last week of June in Salt Lake City, in the shadow of the jewel-like Cathedral of the Madeleine, attending my first-ever colloquium
Read moreWhat the ‘God particle’ sounds like
Scientists have simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such as the Higgs boson when they are produced at the Large Hadron Collider.
Read moreHastening with a loving heart on St. Benedict’s feast day
He’s back! Xavier Rindfleisch went to Mass yesterday and noticed some odd things in the collect for the Feast of St. Benedict.
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