Category: Inculturation
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Pentecost as a birthday party???
LIZETTE LARSON — In recent weeks I’ve seen quite a few diocesan newsletters, Christian formation suggestions, and popular ‘liturgy tips’ advocating for a festive parish celebration of Pentecost.
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Synod calls for … another English translation…
EDITOR — Another translation in English? What language shall we borrow?
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Addendum to “New English-language Hymns for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe”
Since my recent posting about two English-language hymns for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe that appear in The Divine Office Hymnal (2023), Stephen Kasperick-Postellon, the music director-liturgist at St. Paul’s Benedictine Monastery in Oakdale, MN, has provided a great deal of information that I had not been able to find prior to the…
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New English-language Hymns for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
One of the happy surprises contained in the new Divine Office Hymnal (Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, Inc, 2023) is the inclusion of two English-language hymns intended for use on 12 December, the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the USA. Almost all the hymns in this publication are translations from Latin originals, usually set to both metrical-chorale…
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“‘Indigenous liturgical adaptations” submitted to the Vatican for approval
Last March I posted about the proposal to “incorporate in the Catholic Eucharistic celebration indigenous Mayan rites” in Southern Mexico, centered around the Dioceses of San Cristóbal de Las Casas. Now more details have been made public. The Mexican bishops’ conference have finished work on series of Indigenous liturgical adaptations for the celebration of the…
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Book Review: When Church Stops Working
A specially designed, shorter text, aimed at reaching ordinary people, clergy as well as lay, in serious reading and reflection on the local church, namely the parish.
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May Day versus Labor Day
Today the General Roman Calendar celebrates St Joseph the Worker as an Optional Memorial. The observance is marked with more or less solemnity in different places. But I have always wondered why it is celebrated on May 1 in the United States. Even though I am currently ministering in Ireland, the land of my birth,…
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Baptized in the Ecclesial Faith
A 2021 survey of Austrian priests inquires whether we’ve followed through on the new (restored) paths to Christian initiation in this post-conciliar age. And what do our choices mean with regard to “remembering” our Baptism?
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Zaire Rite in Mexico
The Zaire Rite is a favorite of liturgists. It seems that everybody from Pope Benedict XVI to Pope Francis thinks it is a good idea and a valuable fruit of the Second Vatican Council and a good example of the liturgical renewal that it promoted. However, the reality is that very few have personally participated…