How do we best select music that meets the ritual, musical, and pastoral requirements of the liturgy?
Read moreMonth: October 2014
Cardinal George on the New Translation in America
Cardinal Geoprge thinks that the new translation has been “well done” and “the collects are truly beautiful.”
Read moreAll Souls and Clericalism
If those in Holy Orders of Religious Life consider their spirituality to be superior to that of the People of God, then we have a problem.
Read more“What We’re Reading”
I had conflicting feelings of belonging: I belonged to God; but did I? What does it mean to be without grace, or schismatic? The way we employ our sacramental vocabulary inherited from late antiquity matters today, because ultimately, Christianity is about belonging to the communion of the Holy Spirit.
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 87
Vatican website translation: 81 [sic]. In order that the divine office may be better and more perfectly prayed in existing circumstances, whether by priests or
Read moreLiturgy in Collegeville: From the Archives – Part XXV
The committee stated that it did not agree with the principle of reciting all 150 Psalms weekly. The Roman liturgy no longer has this principle, and we would like more readings.
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A classic theological text on time and memory, plus two novels.
Read moreStill No Prefect at the Congregation for Divine Worship
Maybe tomorrow, as I’ve said to myself every day for the past two months.
Read moreNuns in the Hood: 25 Years of Doing Good
“What the Lord put in our hearts,” said Sister Mary Margaret McKenzie, “was that the poor deserve to have their contemplatives.”
Read moreEarthquakes and Liturgy
On Sunday in the Orthodox Church, we will commemorate the Great Earthquake in Constantinople in 740 CE. We will sing the following Kontakion: Deliver us
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