Live from the national convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians – Wednesday 1 pm ET: “New Pope, New Church?”
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Monday live panel: Introducing the panelists
Live from the national convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians – Monday 10 pm ET: “The State of the Question: Where Is Catholic Worship Music Going?”
Read morePope Francis on the “grammar of simplicity”
“At times we lose people because they don’t understand what we are saying…”
Read more“I’ve Got the Music”– Introducing the Panelists
Fr. Paul Turner, Rob Glover, and Tony Alonso will join Rita Ferrone for a roundtable discussion on congregational song that will be live streamed on Pray Tell on Thursday, August 1, at 12:45 Eastern Time. Here is an introduction to the panelists.
Read morePray Tell roundtable on Vatican II: Introducing the panelists
The Pray Tell roundtable discussion on Vatican II, broadcast live for the NPM Convention in Washington DC, will include Fr. John Baldovin, SJ, Karen Kane, and Brother Rufino Zaragoza, OFM, with Rita Ferrone as moderator.
Read morePope Francis wants a mess?!
“I want a mess… I want trouble in the dioceses! I want to get rid of clericalism, … this closing ourselves off within ourselves…”
Read moreHow to give a homily: follow-up
Encouraged as I was by Claire Mathieu’s post on lay evaluation of preaching, I contacted Fr. Michael E. Connors, CSC, director of the John S.
Read moreSlowly but surely: new liturgical books on the way
Now that the new English translation of the Roman Missal is in place, five newly translated liturgical texts are moving through the process of revision and approval: Confirmation, Marriage, Dedication of a Church and an Altar, Exorcism; and a supplement to the Liturgy of the Hours.
Read moreResponsorial Psalm and Antiphon for 18th OT C—haven’t we talked about this before?
Attempting to accomplish another task, I was just consulting the USCCB website for August 4, 2013 and was reminded that there is a problem with
Read more“The Lord be with you. He is here in our midst.” Papal Liturgy in Brazil
Pope Francis has made decisive changes to the plans he inherited and directed that much more vernacular be used in the liturgies, and much less Latin than had been the case previously.
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