Like any good Protestant Seminary, Fuller has a Board of Declaration (a Wittenburg door) at the campus crossroads, onto which any modern Martin/a Luther can post his/her thoughts.
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“Make what is happening in our churches more relevant“ . . .
. . . is the title of a comment in The Irish Catholic for May 22, 2014 by the fine liturgist and educator, Martin Browne, OSB, a monk of Glenstal Abbey. He speaks of the growing popularity in Ireland of the Easter Dawn Mass, something like the American Easter Sunrise Service, I take it.
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When teaching, I try, like most teachers, to find pictures to illustrate the words I am using. When I show the differences between the Mass
Read moreAndrea Grillo, Beyond Pius V: Conflicting Interpretations of the Liturgical Reform
What a bracing book! His passion and clear thinking have grabbed me by the lapels.
Read moreResponsorial Psalm and Antiphon for 18th OT C—haven’t we talked about this before?
Attempting to accomplish another task, I was just consulting the USCCB website for August 4, 2013 and was reminded that there is a problem with
Read moreJeffrey Tucker on “Five Ways to Ruin the Mass”
I believe that this article is worthy of our thoughtful (not splenetic) discussion.
Read moreNote to MC’s and music directors: Walking Through Doorways Causes Forgetting
At last: an explanation for why all one’s careful instructions are completely forgotten when the procession leaves the sacristy or the choir leaves the practice room!
Read moreMore about SC 24, Sacred Scripture, and the Lectionaries
All readers of this blog are grateful to Father Joncas for his series on re-reading of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy [SC]. But do
Read moreLiturgical “Crimes”
Over at America, Father Raymond Schroth, S.J., caught my attention with this.
Read moreI Loved Wisdom More Than Health or Beauty
The Collegeville Composers Group created this song for the Twenty-eighth Sunday of Ordinary TIme B as a Song for the Table. It also served as a
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