Growing up Presbyterian, we didn’t talk about her much.
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Month: December 2017
Unnecessary Impoverishments Part 5: Our Own War on Christmas
No matter how bright, or loud, or shiny, or sweet, or comfy we make a celebration that remains at the surface details, it will be a river “a mile wide and an inch deep.”
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The stational nature of funeral rites
Cory Iverson’s “funeral procession”
Read moreGuido Marini Reconfirmed as Papal MC – UPDATED
Italian sources had claimed to know that Guido Marini, master of ceremonies for Benedict XVI who was retained by Francis, was about to be removed
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A New Resource for Music Ministers
The collection is free for interested individuals to download
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What translation guidelines for official vernacular versions of Roman Rite liturgical texts in English are presently in force?
What new sets of guidelines might we expect, who would formulate them, and what do the bishops’ conferences want to do with the translations guided by Liturgicam Authenticam?
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Bishop Crispian Hollis Apologizes for Missal Translation
“I was wrong and am therefore partly responsible for the appalling texts with which we have now been saddled. I am sorry!”
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The Prayer of the Faithful and the Deacon
Why the Roman Missal wants the deacon to read the intentions of the Universal Prayer.
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Of Mass and Parties
Relating the supersubstantial and the quotidian.
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Reflections on a Renovation: St. Paul’s, Madison
We must ask ourselves some difficult questions about the identity and messages that we want to convey through our architecture.
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