This summer I started with Zygmunt Baumann’s piece on postmodernity entitled “Liquid Modernity.” Then I read Wm. Young’s “The Shack” which friends had been urging for a long time. I can see why. It’s a fascinating take on the Trinity and theodicy. I’ve also read Bill Barry’s “A Friendship Like No Other” and Jim Martin’s “Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything.” Both are wonderful spiritual guides. For ‘fun’ I’m reading
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday
Having seen ‘Oh What a Lovely War’ on the stage recently, a musical which satirises the senseless carnage of World War I, I felt the need to read in detail about how the War began and how it was conducted.
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I’ve decided to divide my reading list into three categories: liturgical material, serious academic reading, and guilty pleasures.
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As we work to determine appropriate implementation strategies for the new translation of the Roman Missal, I am studying The Change Handbook.
Read moreCatholic Music Throughout the Ages by Edward Schaefer
Anyone looking for an apologia for the use (in the author’s ideal world, the use exclusively) of Gregorian chant in the Roman Catholic liturgy today will welcome this book, which contains a historical survey of the growth and development of music in the Church, a critique of the current situation, and proposals for the future of liturgical music.
Read moreProblematisch, n’est ce pas? An appeal to editors and publishers
My students have had to read the following: Baptism is to be in ‘ύδωρ ζων. Several documents “are classified with the vague Sammelbegriff ‘Gallican missals’.” The Bobbio Missal has a rite “ad christianum faciendum.” A canon from a council “…signifie donc que l’intervention personelle de ’évêque est limité…”
Read moreThe Genius of the Roman Rite, by Keith Pecklers SJ
The author, Professor of Liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and Professor of Liturgical History at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome, is a well-known writer and speaker; and he has done us all a service with this timely book. It should be required reading for anyone concerned with the forthcoming new Missal, translation for the liturgy, and pastoral dimensions of liturgical change.
Read moreLadislas Orsy’s new book, Receiving the Council: Theological and Canonical Insights and Debates
It will come as no surprise to readers familiar with Orsy’s writings that he offers a mixed assessment of recent papal and curial documents that deal with matters of ecclesiastical law and structure.
Read moreAmerican Magnificat: Protestants on Mary of Guadalupe
Here is a really important and I’m sure very interesting book edited by PrayTell contributor Max Johnson.
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