Author: Paul Ford
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My favorite story about Blessed Paul VI
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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worth at least a thousand words [updated]
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 of Pope Saint Pius V and the Mass of Pope Paul VI, I show this Ordo Missae page from a missal we have at the seminary. The Mass is being…
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Andrea 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.
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Responsorial 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 the biblical citation for the responsorial antiphon, If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts, from Psalm 95:7d–8a, and not verse 1 of Psalm 90, as indicated. I can’t find…
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Jeffrey Tucker on “Five Ways to Ruin the Mass”
I believe that this article is worthy of our thoughtful (not splenetic) discussion.
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Note 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!
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More 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 these same readers (especially the ‘lurkers’) think that his questions about §24 were answered? They are found in his initial entry, in his seventh comment, in his twenty-fourth comment, and in…
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Liturgical “Crimes”
Over at America, Father Raymond Schroth, S.J., caught my attention with this.