What is the most constructive and charitable way to move toward better celebration of the reformed liturgy?
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This Week’s Discussion Question: The presider’s responsibilities
The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, says in §11: “But in order that the liturgy may be able to produce its full effects,
Read moreThis week’s discussion question – on broadcasting liturgies
What are the advantages and disadvantages of broadcast liturgies, in your experience? How can they best be done?
Read moreThis Week’s Discussion Question: Should People Dress Up for Church?
Does it matter what people wear to church? Is the move to casual Sunday dress an important – or problematic – cultural shift?
Read moreThis Week’s Discussion Question: What does multicultural liturgy look like…and does it even matter?
Multicultural liturgy seems to be the least popular of liturgical issues.
Read moreThis Week’s Discussion Question: Neo-Augustinian vs. Post Vatican II Thomist perspectives on liturgical reform and renewal
“Neo-Augustinian” approaches to the liturgy tend to view it in Platonic terms, the heavenly worship offered to the Father by the Son in the unity of the Spirit, joined in by the angels and saints, in which those on earth are privileged to gain some share by grace. “Post Vatican II Thomist” approaches to the liturgy would tend to view it in Aristotelian terms, a “complexus of sensible signs,” an earthly disclosure through culturally and historically conditioned semiotic systems of the graced condition of the world.
Read moreThis Week’s Discussion Question: Private and public spiritual practices
1. Which faith practices are essential to who you are? Are they personal, private or familial, or public?
2. Do your personal or private practices contribute to participation in large liturgical rites? How?
Read moreThis Week’s Discussion Question: The Church’s Perception of the Ministerial Priesthood
The middle of the 20th century saw a shift in emphasis, from the priest as cultic minister to the priest as a proclaimer of the Word, and as a servant-leader of the community.
Read moreThis Week’s Discussion Question: A ‘North American’ Missal Translation?
Each week this summer, a Pray Tell contributor puts up a question for discussion. Here is this week’s. Is it time to consider a ‘North
Read moreWrapping Up This Week’s Discussion Question: The Target of Pope Benedict’s Criticism
We had a lively discussion this week on the target of Pope Benedict’s Criticism of liturgical reform – 117 comments! Thanks, all.
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