Catholic liturgy once involved a complex gamut of grades and distinctions, perhaps because it had developed in a world filled with social grades and distinctions. Both are now gone.
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The Solemnity of Mother’s Day
When the solemnity of Mother’s Day falls on the Ascension of the Lord, which takes precedence?
Read moreThe Celebration of First Communion and the Eclipse of Liturgical Practice
by Donna Eschenauer.
Should the celebration of First Communion neglect sound liturgical principles?
A Palm Sunday Near You
Videos and service leaflets are beginning to appear across the Internet from last Sunday’s Palm Sunday Services. What did you do in your parish?
Read moreOut of Egypt
Through no fault of his, this Egyptian Jesuit mystic’s letter to Pope Benedict was accidentally made public. The Church of today is too formal and too formalistic, he wrote.
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