It’s hard to hold your camera in one hand and your booklet in the other, trying to watch the conductor out of the corner of your eye as you focus your camera on the center aisle – all the while translating the Italian translation of the Latin text of the introit for spiritual benefit.
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The Kneeling God – a Christmas reflection
by Robert E. Adrian.
“And it was as if God slipped into the world one night when nobody much was looking, to kneel with outstretched hands toward you and me.”
Christmas Mass from St. Peter’s Basilica
Here is the Christmas Missa in nocte (that would be the midnight Mass at 10 pm) from St. Peter’s Basilica. Hear a real Italian cantor!
Read moreCNN on the pope’s liturgy – sort of
CNN is available in over 100 million U.S. households, and CNN International can be seen by viewers in over 212 countries and territories. You’d think they could find someone who knows something about the religious ritual they’re covering.
Read moreWishing you a Not-so-Merry Christmas
A Chestertonian view of Christmas. “… there is in that image a true idea of an outpost, of a piercing through the rock and an entrance into an enemy territory. There is in this buried divinity an idea of undermining the world; of shaking the towers and palaces from below; even as Herod the great king felt that earthquake under him and swayed with his swaying palace.”
Read moreMerry Christmas!
Pray Tell wishes a blessed and merry Christmas to our ever-growing readership.
Read moreAre Early ‘Midnight Masses’ Desacralizing Dec. 25?
by Fr. James Martin, SJ
“More and more, you’ll find churches empty on Christmas Day. People want to get it out of the way. “
Another Christmas Day Homily
A couple of years ago I had the opportunity to preach on Christmas day, so I took advantage of this to preach on John 1. In fact, I used it as an opportunity to preach on how we might think of this text in connection with the Christmas story. No one rose up; no one smote me; no one even said, “Why didn’t you read the Christmas story?” In fact, a couple of people said they liked the homily.
Read morePreaching the Incarnation: John 1 on Christmas Day
Rita Ferrone: “Maybe Cody or some other PrayTell Chrysostom will post a model homily for Christmas day to help the homilists who struggle with this text.”
Mmmm. . . OK.
Read more“We Are Yearning For the Season”
The hymn text I’ve chosen for the second week of Advent, Ruth Duck’s hymn “We Are Yearning For the Season,” could actually be used throughout the season and even into Christmastide.
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