The first of a series on the Sacrament of Order. This piece begins to consider why the sacrament has that name and why the latin name is singular (“order”) and not plural (“orders”).
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The first of a series on the Sacrament of Order. This piece begins to consider why the sacrament has that name and why the latin name is singular (“order”) and not plural (“orders”).
Read moreLiturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.
Read moreA sacramental understanding of the church is necessary to any contemporary reform movement because without it we cannot separate loyalty to the institution from fidelity to Christ, even when those institutions become poisonous.
Read moreThe liturgy demands faith, hope, charity, humility, repentance, pardoning offenses, intention, attention, inward and vocal expression…
Read more“…to reeducate our people in their religion, to purify and revitalize their forms of worship and devotion, to restore dignity, beauty, simplicity, and good taste…”
Read moreTrent and Vatican II, compared
Read moreRecordings of liturgies at Sacred Heart Church in Southbridge, MA, ranging from 1966-1969, provide a fascinating glimpse of liturgical change in one parish.
Read moreA question for those who hold that the Mass as most Catholics know it represents an ‘irreformable rupture’: when did the rupture first take place?
Read moreThese are the basic facts.
Read moreIf Pope Paul VI is canonized a saint, it will mean very good things for the cause of liturgical renewal.
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