The General Norms for the Liturgical Year (including the Table of Liturgical Days) had already been promulgated *before* the general permission for Sunday and feastday Masses on Saturday evening came into being.
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Category: Liturgical year
May Madness: Popular Piety vs. Doctrinal Feasts
Yesterday, on the Trinity Sunday, I presided a Liturgy of the Eucharist in a parish where I had not been for a number of years.
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Does Easter Ask Too Much…?
“Therefore, overcome with paschal joy, every land, every people exults in your praise and even the heavenly Powers, with the angelic hosts, sing together the
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Holy Liturgies in an Unholy Pandemic
What liturgical adaptations have been put in place because of the pandemic?
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Passion Versus Palm Sunday
I know that there is no such thing as a “theme” for any liturgical celebration. In every liturgy we celebrate the Paschal Mystery and every
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The Annunciation of the Lord: And Became Water?
But even more than God becoming human and 78% H2O as a newborn, the Incarnation is also about God becoming cosmic dust, and about God becoming genetic kin to all that is, since humans share with all that exists on planet earth a common genetic ancestry.
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The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography
The first lecture will be Monday, March 22, 2021, on “The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography,” beginning at 7:00 pm CT. The live stream/recording link is here.
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Ars Praedicandi: Cheesefare Sunday
Nothing is more beautiful than the metaphor of the open door, the brightness of the light, and the childlike joy of being together on Pascha.
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Lent as a Liturgy of Reckoning
Following the Spirit into the desert for 40 days is spiritual detoxification.
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More Revisions to 1962 Extraordinary Form Roman Missal
Pray Tell reported earlier this month how Pope Francis issued a Decree to add the memorial of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus to General Roman Calendar
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The Ecumenical Muddle of Celebrating the Transfiguration of the Lord
What is the difference between “Transfiguration Sunday,” “The Feast of the Transfiguration,” and the proclamation of the gospel narrative of the transfiguration? In large part
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