It will be another thirty weeks before we get to our re-reading of Sacrosanctum Concilium 35. [UPDATED] But I am teaching an elective, “The RCIA: The Sacraments
Read moreAuthor: Paul Ford
Paul F. Ford, Ph.D., has been professor of theology and liturgy at St. John Seminary, Camarillo, CA, since February of 1988. He is the author of By Flowing Waters: Chant for the Liturgy (The Liturgical Press, 1999) and the convener of the five-member Collegeville Composers Group, authors of Psallite: Sacred Song for Liturgy and Life (The Liturgical Press, 2005–2010).
This Week’s Discussion Question: ” . . . too lively for Communion?”
There are times for reverence and adoration during the communion rite; but the communion procession is not one of those times.
Read moreThis Week’s Discussion Question: The presider’s responsibilities
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, says in §11: “But in order that the liturgy may be able to produce its full effects,
Read moreA bishop’s praise of Bishop Trautman
Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg pays tribute to Bishop Donald Trautman, emeritus of Erie, PA, and tells a story about this “Lion of the Liturgy” that I had never heard before.
Read moreA “default” communion canticle: Wisdom 16: 20–21, 26; 17:1.
This morning’s use of the Canticle of Wisdom as the reading for morning prayer in Give Us This Day (alas not used in the Lectionary) put me in mind of its significance as one of the default communion psalms and canticles.
Read moreWomen’s Equality Day and Ephesians 5 Sunday
August 26, 2013, is Women’s Equality Day. Will homilists employ this fact in preaching on Ephesians 5:21–33 in the context of Joshua 24 and John 6:60–69?
Read moreFr. Pasley on the Distinctive Voices of the Ordinary Form of the Mass
Fr. Robert Pasley, the chaplain of the Church Music Association of America, has a written a lengthy addition to our conversation about the ways in which the forms of the Mass may enrich one another. I received permission to reprint it here on Pray Tell as part of my larger desire to create respectful dialogue.
Read moreMass facing the people—a defense
To some readers of Pray Tell it might seem eyebrow-raising to be addressing this issue in the summer of 2012. But some of our friends continue to assert that we regular celebrators of the OF are laboring under a massive misunderstanding of the implementation documents of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
So let’s look at this issue again.
Read moreDoes the Ordinary Form Have a Distinctive Voice?
Jeffrey A. Tucker, managing editor of Sacred Music and a friendly and thoughtful dialogue partner, has responded at the Chant Café to my report of the CMAA Colloquium XXII in Salt Lake City.
Read moreResponses to the Responses to “The CMAA Colloquium—a report”
Paul Ford here, not feeling very confident about how to make extensive replies to many but not all of the replies thus far to “The CMAA Colloquium—a report.”
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