Pope Francis is right: it is necessary to return to a single, unified Roman Rite and leave the “Traditional Latin Mass” in the past. And our personal liturgical preferences have absolutely no bearing on the matter. As conservatives have grown fond of saying, truth doesn’t care about your feelings.
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The liturgy at its heart is a spiritual technology: rehearsing and nourishing the path to and through God’s reign marked by communion, participation, and mission.
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Could aspects of Fijian cultural meals be incorporated into the church’s eucharistic tradition?
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We are invited to find unity within our Western Church, as sons and daughters of Peter, and with all Christians, as daughters and sons of Mary.
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“It’s long past time that Catholics of all stripes came together to work through the issues that divide us. But it will never happen without a dose of realism.”
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Pope Francis’s apostolic letter on liturgical formation, Desiderio desideravi, is full of interesting “prompts” for our reflection. Here are a few.
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“When I join a communion procession, do I engage in this action as though I were a customer in line at a supermarket or an amusement park?”
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Rather, it is we – the human voices in this cosmic choir – who need to be reminded that we do not sing alone in praise of God.
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Yesterday’s Times of India reports that 50.000 Syro-Malabar Christians of the Ernakulam Angamaly archdiocese of the Syro Malabar Church took to the streets to protest
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Vatican News has an article on Pope Francis and the Missel Romain pour les Diocèses du Zaïre. This is in the context of his cancelled
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