In a time of liturgical questions, changes, challenges, reforms, and reforms of reforms, filled with arguments, disputes, power plays, and power players, perhaps a bit of psalmist-inspired Reformation perspective is in order. If it worked for 16th century Martin Luther and 20th century Roman Catholic hymnal editors, perhaps we 21st century folk can profit from it as well.
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Sacrosanctum 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 moreThe Genius of the Roman Rite, by Keith Pecklers SJ
The author, Professor of Liturgy at the Pontifical Gregorian University and Professor of Liturgical History at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome, is a well-known writer and speaker; and he has done us all a service with this timely book. It should be required reading for anyone concerned with the forthcoming new Missal, translation for the liturgy, and pastoral dimensions of liturgical change.
Read more“Liturgical Studies and Liturgical Renewal,” Fr. Anscar Chupungco, OSB
World-renowned expert in liturgical inculturation, Fr. Anscar Chupungco OSB, challenged recent announcements on liturgical reform decrying their “absence of a historical and cultural approach to the liturgy, or, in a word, the inability to fuse together the two basic concepts of Vatican II’s liturgical renewal, namely sound tradition and legitimate progress.”
Read moreFrom Where Comes “Novus Ordo”?
I do not recall hearing the phrase “Novus Ordo” used to describe the editions of the Missale Romanum of Pope Paul VI until rather recently. I find this development rather interesting and my question, then, is, simply, from where did this designation arise?
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