I am privileged to be attending the National Liturgy Conference in Wollongong, Australia, this week. I thought Pray Tell readers might find a report on the conference of interest.
Read moreMonth: January 2014
Non Solum: Liturgy and the Environment
The ecological dimensions of liturgical life are not being developed like the social dimensions once were.
Read more“The most beautiful choir is the choir of [crying] children…”
From Pope Francis’s homily for Baptism of the Lord.
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXIII
“It was a great and important meeting from the point of view of the future orientation of things. What has been played out this evening was, partly, the opening towards human beings (De populo Dei) and the soundness of a mariology cured of its maximalist canker.”
Read moreFrancis to “brothers” (i.e., new cardinals): “Not a promotion or honor…”
“Therefore I ask you, please, ensure that this sentiment is far from any expression of worldliness or from any form of celebration contrary to the evangelical spirit of austerity, sobriety and poverty.”
Read moreBaptismal Site on the Jordan
Sitting in church today on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, I was reminded of my visit to the baptismal site on the banks of the Jordan east of Jerusalem (Qasr al-Yahud).
Read moreThe New Cardinals – and the Implications for Liturgy
My first reaction is that today’s nominations are a setback for the “Reform of the Reform.”
Read moreInculturation American-style
What liturgical reforms would be needed in order to speak to modern Americans?
Read morePope Francis allows Liturgy in Tzotzil and Tzeltal
Pope Francis recently allowed the liturgy to be conducted in two indigenous languages within the Mexican state of Chiapas.
Read moreReview of Missal Translation Coming?
A review is promised, though the mechanism of such a review is not known.
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