“I have to change, in my head, what I’ve been taught.”
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Category: 4_THE PLAZA
Table vs. Altar: A Creative Tension
Can table and altar still speak to each other?
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Gaudete Sunday versus the Third Sunday of Advent
Today the Church celebrates the Third Sunday of Advent. This Sunday has traditionally been given the title Gaudete Sunday. This title comes from the first
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The Advents of our year…
Advent is complicated.
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Cursing Psalms and the Liturgy of the Hours
What is missing from the Psalter and why?
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Working in the Vineyard: the Church Music Institute
A regular feature in which Pray Tell highlights various liturgical institutions.
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CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATION: Harmon, Nichols, and Ramshaw on Gendered God Language in Worship (Dec 3)
Respectful dialogue on a controversial topic. UPDATED Dec 3
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What is a Post-Vatican-II-Mass?
Whether celebrated with contemporary music or Gregorian Chant, oriented toward people or with them, with communion on the tongue or in the hand, in brutalist simplicity or baroque splendor, the reformed Mass conveys certain distinctive emphases of the Second Vatican Council.
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Holy Night
Some thoughts about Christmas for a parish bulletin.
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Faggioli on U.S. Traditionalism: A Response
Anthony Ruff responds to Massimo Faggioli’s piece in Commonweal on U.S. traditionalists.
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