Here you can find abstracts from the most current issue of Worship as well as the list of books that are reviewed.
Read moreMonth: October 2015
Formal Equivalence – hah!
When will we realize that Liturgiam Authenticam is a laughing-stock and needs to be replaced?
Read moreViewpoint: All Saints’ Day Includes Every Man and Woman of Good Will
“For the church is, and has always been, a net that has caught all sorts of fish. She is, and has always been, a strange combination of the drab and the magnificent, the squalid and the heroic, the shabby and the beautiful.”
Read moreCommon Easter: Another Pope Heard From
According to reports, Pope Francis has agreed to a proposal from the Coptic Pope Tawadros II for a common (and apparently fixed) day for Easter.
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 101
Vatican website translation: 101. 1. In accordance with the centuries-old tradition of the Latin rite, the Latin language is to be retained by clerics in
Read moreLiturgy and Internet
The “internet church St. Boniface,” an online church, is maintained by pastoral staff from the German dioceses of Hildesheim and Osnabrück as well as by several religious orders.
Read moreNext Head of USCCB Liturgy Committee: Gregory or Barres?
Archbishop Wilton Gregory’s motto is: We Are The Lord’s – be sure to include the apostrophe!
Read moreOrthodox group calls for “rejuvenating” the ministry of ordained deaconess
One of the two prayers for the Byzantine rite for the Ordination for the Deaconess solemnly states that the Lord does “not reject women offering themselves and desiring to minister in your holy houses, in accordance with what is fitting . . . .”
Read moreThe Playful Gravity of Time
University discourse tends to refer to some distant future in which all knowledge will be discovered, in which progress will be made, in which endowments will grow. Yet, here at St. John’s, a radical alternative time interrupts again and again. The time not of capital campaigns, of curricular reviews, but the playful gravity of time embodied in the Christo-centric Liturgy of the Hours.
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 100
Let pastors of souls take care that the primary Hours, especially Vespers, be celebrated communally in church, on Sundays and more solemn feasts. It is also to be commended that the laity themselves recite the Divine Office, whether with priests, or gathered among themselves, or even each one alone.
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