“The lack of spectacular consequence is hardly surprising. Few people attend church services simply for the beauty of the language.”
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The TLS and the New Missal
This week’s The Times Literary Supplement carries a vigorous review of the UK edition of the Roman Missal.
Read moreDiocesan Missal Survey report goes live
The complete report is now available to download as a PDF.
Read moreHymnal Review, Part Five: Conclusion, Hymnody and Justice
By James E. Frazier
Neither the Vatican II Hymnal nor the Adoremus Hymnal provides a listing of copyright permissions.
Hymnal Review, Part Four: The Vatican II Hymnal
The Vatican II Hymnal is at once the most complete, the most limited, and in some ways the most traditional of all three hymnals reviewed in this series.
Read moreHymnal Review, Part Three: The St. Michael Hymnal
by James E. Frazier.
“Despite my reservations about St. Michael Hymnal, the hymnal will serve any parish well that wants a traditional hymnal of this sort, with a fair range of non-traditional options.”
Hymnal Review, Part Two: The Adoremus Hymnal
by James E. Frazier.
“The several theological problems that I have noted in the Adoremus Hymnal were clearly not perceived as such by the editors.”
The New Missal and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Whenever you change a complex system, things occur that you did not foresee.
Read moreThis Week’s Discussion Question: The presider’s responsibilities
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, says in §11: “But in order that the liturgy may be able to produce its full effects,
Read moreInfrequent Worshipers and the new Mass texts
I was at a funeral yesterday, and in the packed church it was quite obvious that there were two linguistic groups, about evenly matched: those still routinely praying the older English texts, and those who have by now settled into the new ones.
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