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
Holy Night
Some thoughts about Christmas for a parish bulletin.
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Día de los Muertos in Collegeville
“My favorite part was eating candy and chocolate skulls.”
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Singing Properly
Yes, let us glory in the Cross. Let us also keep channels of communication clear and open. Let us strive to bring the gifts of our various ministries together for the service of God’s people. Let us continue to learn and reflect on the richness of our liturgical heritage, using every skill to offer its richness for a deepened spirituality in the Paschal Mystery.
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Mary’s Dormition: Why Should We Care?
The event of Mary’s death was the ultimate liturgy.
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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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