Did the old liturgy need fixing??
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Liturgy: First on the Agenda
A new organization of priests in the US is planning a convocation for next June. The topic–liturgy.
Read moreSacred Art – Recapturing a Treasure
by Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli, Paterson, New Jersey
“Byzantine, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Modern and Post-Modern: there is no one style that the Church has canonized.”
Defending the liturgical reforms of Vatican II
by Msgr. M. Francis Mannion
“The theory that Pope Paul VI made a mistake in approving so many changes is rash and problematic in that it accords excessive importance to personal interpretations.”
The Splendour of Noble Simplicity?
From the Tablet: How could one of the Vatican’s chief advocates for more Latin in the liturgy make such an elementary mistake?
Read moreSacrosanctum Concilium at 47: The Second Spirit of the Council
Fair is fair. If there can be a First Spirit, there can be a Second Spirit. Every era puts its stamp on the liturgy. But in the interest of accuracy, I propose that we be careful to call the currently ascendant liturgical agenda what it is: the Second Spirit of the Council.
Read moreSacrosanctum Concilium at 47: John O’Malley video
Fr. John O’Malley, SJ, author of “What Happened at Vatican II,” spoke at Vanderbilt University on the topic. This video gives an excellent context for the liturgy constitution.
Read moreSacrosanctum Concilium at 47: Honoring the leaders
Gary Feldhege at Liturgical Press maintains the website “Liturgical Pioneers, Pastoral Musicians and Liturgists,” a necrology of those individuals who were passionate about the reform of the liturgy as mandated by the Second Vatican Council.
Read moreUniformity, Idolatry, and Spoken Liturgy
It’s now official: no pointing of orations in the new English missal.
Read moreSouter and Sacrosanctum – UPDATED 6-3-10
The Constitution is a pantheon of values, and a lot of hard cases are hard because the Constitution gives no simple rule of decision for the cases in which one of the values is truly at odds with another.
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