“Make no doubt about it, theses changes in posture are the revenge of trendy liturgists for the introduction of a new, more traditional, translation of the Mass which they really dislike,” said one Scottish priest.
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).
Adjustments to the fifth edition of the General Instruction to the Roman Missal
Thanks to Jeffrey A. Tucker at The Chant Café, I have become aware that the Holy See ordered ICEL to coordinate the three extant English translations of the GIRM (US, Australia, and England and Wales) into one translation, and to add the approved US variants….
Read moreA codicil to Simply Fred
I just finished the book (the first time in months I read a book in one day)….
Read moreTell me I have an incorrect version (say it isn’t so)
“Almighty ever-living God,
tend us to a share in the joys of heaven…”
Do I have the correct 2011 text?
Read moreEaster Greetings from Liturgical Press and The Collegeville Composers Group
The entire staff at Liturgical Press and The Collegeville Composers Group send readers of Pray Tell greetings and blessings of Easter with a couple recordings from The Psallite Mass.
Read moreThe Hymn for the Procession of the Oils
The 1998 sacramentary-that-never-was contains this noble effort at telling the story of the Chrism Mass.
Read moreThe Chrism Mass
The way the Chrism Mass is celebrated in some dioceses distorts its ecclesiology. Even though the entrance antiphon refers to all of the baptized as priests (“Jesus Christ has made us a kingdom of priests to serve his God and Father: glory and kingship be his for ever and ever. Amen.” [Rev. 1:6]—also the second reading of the Mass), the procession is often made up of clergy only.
Read moreMaking peace on the New Missal—Voices from down under
Father Tom Knowles identified himself as one of the 22,000 signatories of the “What If We Just Said Wait?” petition pushing for a “grassroots review” of the new Roman Missal. But he said the time has come to turn to the practical matter of implementing the changes.
Read moreAnything worth doing is worth doing badly
I am getting so many invitations to make presentations on the new Roman Missal that I cannot accept them without ending my marriage. So the time has arrived to announce that free videos and slideshows of my January 2011 presentations to the religious education and liturgical leaders of the Diocese of San José are now posted.
Read more“The propers are the Mass . . . “?
Elsewhere on this blog a vigorous discussion is taking place on “Singing the Mass” … What, then, are the propers of the Roman Missal and their relevance to the fire they should be fueling?
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