Category: 4_THE PLAZA
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On This Day: President Johnson sworn in – with a hand missal
This would have been a pre-Vatican II missal in 1963.
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Viewpoint: Thanksgiving Day Invites A Generous Attitude of Blessing
The ability to give thanks is the mark of the truly religious person.
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The Kingdom of God Among Us
Salvation is not a commodity to be bought or earned. It is a gift to be accepted.
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Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome
“Participation and sacramental realism seem to be the most significant, fruitful, and basic concepts of church planning (art and architecture) in the 20th century.” – Fr. Cloud Meinberg OSB, 1959
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REPOST: Interviewing Liturgical Leaders: Robert Taft, S.J.
“The liturgy doesn’t need fixing. For starters it just needs a translation into something remotely resembling English. What needs fixing are the celebrating clergy.” – Robert Taft, 2014
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A letter from Fr. Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., appropriate for All Souls Day
As we celebrate the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’) I thought it would be of some interest to the readers of Pray Tell for me to transcribe some portions of Fr. Godfrey Deikmann’s Advent 1999 letter to “family and friends.” One of the members of the Carondolet Village community with whom I…
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Solemnity of All Saints
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