What is the state of Vatican II-inspired liturgical renewal today? What healthy developments might we look forward to in the future? What are the “idols” we must do battle with, in order to worship the one true God? What are the wellsprings of hope that give us courage for the journey?
Read moreTag: Rita Ferrone
Pray Tell’s own coming to CNN October 13th!
One of Pray Tell ’s contributors, Rita Ferrone, will appear on CNN.
Read moreThanks, Rita / awr is back
Huge thanks to Rita for her capable moderation of Pray Tell the past month.
Read moreRita Ferrone at the Helm of Pray Tell
Rita is well known in these parts. We give her a warm welcome as she moderates the blog for the coming month. Address all correspondence to her.
Read moreAll Together Now? Catholic Unity and the Liturgy
Fifty years after the promulgation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, some assert that this unity is textual. But is the unity of the Roman Rite really about having a single text? Textual unity was not what the fathers of the Council chiefly had in mind when they made the landmark decision to opt for the expression “substantial unity” rather than formal unity or uniformity.
Read moreRita Ferrone on “Liturgy and Social Justice: Fresh Challenges for Today in Virgil Michel’s Legacy”
“Fr. Virgil’s contribution was not as an economist, not as a union organizer, not as someone who ran a hospitality house or a farm cooperative. Rather, his calling was to deepen the spiritual basis of all of these things, through the Liturgy.”
Read moreRita Ferrone on “Washing Feet”
At Commonweal.
Read moreCriticism of the new translation
Criticism of the new missal translation from two women.
Read moreFrancis Mannion on the new translation and missal chants
Msgr. Francis Mannion wrote this in a recent column in Our Sunday Visitor.
Read moreThe Martyrdom of a Lovely Language
Part 3 of Gabe Huck’s 4-part series on the new translation.
“We are being told something by this new missal and we had better understand: ‘Your language doesn’t matter. Nobody’s living language matters. Latin matters.'”