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  • Significant New Church in Kansas

    …Next week, following the formal opening of the building, Pray Tell Blog will have an article featuring the architecture firm, Fr. Richard Vosko, the liturgical consultant, and information about the building and the building process from the church itself.

  • The Hymn Society Selects a New Executive Director

    The Hymn Society has selected a new Executive Director, Dr. Jan Kraybill to succeed Rev. Dr. Deborah Carlton Loftis, FHS, who will be retiring May 1. An active member of HSUSC since 1998 and a member of its Executive Committee from 2010–2013, Dr. Kraybill is a passionate advocate for the power of music to change lives for the…

  • Non Solum: Clothing and the Catechumenate

    In the RCIA, there is an optional clothing of the newly baptized at the Easter Vigil with a (most often) white robe to symbolize their new baptismal purity.

  • Vatican Radio: Catholic Parishes ‘Twinning’ for Papal Visit

    Pope Francis’ historic visit to the Anglican church of All Saints in central Rome on Sunday will be marked by the ‘twinning’ of the Church of England community with the Catholic parish of Ognissanti on the south side of the city.

  • Remaining Rites for ACNA Book of Common Prayer Released

    The Anglican Church in North America, the largest body of Anglicans who have left The Episcopal Church, has released additional liturgies for the proposed Book of Common Prayer to be implemented in 2019. These rites, the liturgies for Ash Wednesday and Holy Week were approved in January and mark the completion of the proposed BCP‘s…

  • Construction on Christ Cathedral Begins

    Yesterday, after several months of agonizing over cost estimates and design plans, Bishop Kevin Vann [blessed] the Christ Cathedral sanctuary before it is sealed off to be renovated into a Catholic cathedral.

  • Anglican Evensong in St. Peter’s Basilica

    St. Peter’s Basilica will be hosting an Anglican Evensong on March 13th. This date has been chosen as the nearest available day to the historic feast day of St Gregory the Great.

  • Fruit of the Vine or Cup of Devils?

    Some creative communion stewards chose to make their own unfermented sacramental wine. One recipe called for adding a pound of hand-squashed raisin pulp—dried grapes—to a quart of boiling water. Later in the process, the “winemaker” was to add an egg white. Doesn’t that sound delicious?

  • New Marian Shrine at Christ Cathedral

    On Wednesday, the seventh, Bishop Kevin Vann of the Diocese of Orange, announced that there will be a shrine in the Marian plaza surrounding the cathedral dedicated to Our Lady of La Vang. The Diocese of Orange has some 100,000 Vietnamese Catholics, worshipping throughout the diocese, with large communities in fifteen parishes. Our Lady of…