Pray Tell reported earlier this month how Pope Francis issued a Decree to add the memorial of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus to General Roman Calendar
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Pray Tell reported earlier this month how Pope Francis issued a Decree to add the memorial of Mary, Martha, and Lazarus to General Roman Calendar
Read moreWhere is the Ordinary Form of the Mass on social media? On Google? Anywhere, out there, on the vast and billowing waves of the world wide web?
Read moreBefore the 1950s, there were several forms of the EF. (The following is a simplification, before anyone jumps into action.) (1) Low Mass — all
Read moreMatthew Schmitz’s op-ed piece in the New York Times, entitled “The Latin Mass, Thriving in Southeastern Nigeria,” raises a number of questions.
Read moreDwight Longenecker attempts to remedy the imbalance in Cardinal Sarah’s call for more cross-pollination.
Read moreIs Bishop Malloy’s letter an abrogation of Summorum Pontificum? Or is it simply an exercise of pastoral governance in his diocese?
Read moreThe strongest force driving skepticism of liturgical reform is the “lack of reverence” some experience at the Ordinary Form.
Read moreArchbishop Alexander Sample, of Portland Oregon, celebrated a pontifical Tridentine Mass, and preached about celebrating a pontifical Tridentine Mass.
Read moreOver at NLM, Peter Kwasniewski has a thoughtful and thought-provoking post on the early liturgical movement and what its aims were. Though I am not entirely in agreement with what he says in his piece, it seems to me that he raises some points that are worthy of comment and discussion.
Read moreWe as a Church must constantly think through how even the smallest details of our liturgies project a specific ecclesiology. Then we must gauge whether the ecclesiology being articulated is congruous with the Church’s self-understanding. Those practices, no matter how small, which are incompatible with the Church’s broader self-understanding should cease.
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