“. . . so that through the liturgy we can experience God.” — From today’s Synod press conference.
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Author: Rita Ferrone
Rita Ferrone is a writer and speaker about issues of liturgy, catechesis, and church renewal. She lives in Mount Vernon, New York.
Pray for Journalists
We need to pray in ways that recall the community’s investment in courageous journalism, and pray for those reporters who face persecution and threats around the world.
Read moreHymn Festival at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music
How do worship, music, and art draw congregations into faithful relationship with God and creation?
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Addai, Mari, and Me
The Assyrians hold a treasure in their liturgy—a liturgical gem that belongs to the great, diverse heritage of worldwide Christianity.
Read moreCommunion only in the hand
In India, 140 parishes of the Syro-Malabar Church are prohibiting communion on the tongue to combat the spread of disease.
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Pope Francis: A Man of His Word – updated
Francis speaks directly into the camera, and thus the viewer sees him as if he is speaking person-to-person, to you.
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Pope Francis and the RCIA
I was pleasantly surprised to see the signing of the senses quoted at length in the pope’s catechesis on Baptism.
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Dorothy Day, Woes, Dante, and More
The latest issue of The Yale ISM Review, on the theme of poverty, draws on the work of musicians, artists, poets, liturgists, theologians, historians, and more.
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Raising Mass Attendance
Is anything that gets people through the door worth doing?
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Liturgical Prayer Must Be Intelligible: Another Excellent Paper on Magnum Principium
“Given these premises it was certainly not foreseeable that translations of liturgical texts would be presented and approved with an excessive attention to words, phraseology and to Latin style.”
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