A monstrance, containing the Host was flown in by a drone at the Easter Mass the in the São Geraldo Magela parish in the Archdiocese of Sorocaba in Brazil. After well-known Blogger, Fr Z posted the video on his website the parish’s Facebook page has been visited almost 800,000 times and has been inundated with comments denouncing its use Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Liturgy’
Cardinal Sarah: A pink slip for a red hat 
Comments 0
Monday, March 19th, 2018
Especially during the tourist season, the church at which I exercise my liturgical ministry receives a large number of visitors. A surprising number of them, usually women, make it a point to tell me with an air of disapproval for what we have on offer that in their home country they only go to Latin Read more
Advent forms us in the art of desiring God Comments 0
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
Timothy O’Malley, director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Liturgy and author of the recently released book Bored Again Catholic: How the Mass Could Save Your Life, believes good liturgy is the key to new evangelization. In an interview with Crux, O’Malley offers his take on how Catholics should seize the many opportunities for the renewal Read more
Do you know the history of the Advent Wreath? Comments 0
Thursday, December 7th, 2017
We can trace the origins of the Advent wreath back to pagan tradition. Pre-Christian Germanic people lit candles and placed them in wreaths during the darkest days of winter as a sign of hope for the light that would come with Springtime. Read more Related Posts:Avoid Christmas decorations, carols in AdventAn Advent devotional worth checking Read more
Depends on meaning Comments 0
Monday, November 20th, 2017
When we were young, no one in our house was allowed to swear. Except Dad, of course. But his oaths were limited to “Damn” and “Hell.” We thought these words very daring and wondered if they were okay with God. On the other hand, Dad could yell at us, “I’ll thrash ye tae an inch Read more
Bishop Drennan, ‘thumbs up’. Two ‘thumbs up’ to Bishop Campbell Comments 3
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Jogging our memories, I’m sure we can recall the liturgical branding for the new translation of the Mass. “New words, deeper meaning, same Mass.” Initially prepared to go with the flow, after a little while I found the cognitive dissonance became too apparent. What we got were old words with foreign meanings and a Mass Read more
Pope Francis and faithful translation: ‘Magnum Principium’ clarified Comments 0
Monday, October 16th, 2017
When Pope Francis issued his motu proprio on liturgical translation (Magnum principium) in September, most of the commentary that followed was focused on the change in Canon Law this enacted, which strengthened the role of bishops’ conferences. The 2001 Vatican instruction on translation, Liturgiam authenticam, had strongly centralized authority in Rome and diminished the role of the bishops’ conferences. Read more
A better translation of the Mass possible Comments 1
Monday, October 16th, 2017
The Bishop of Palmerston North Charles Drennan says the clunky sentence construction and often awkward vocabulary in the six-year-old translation of the Mass have tested us all, “Notwithstanding the introduction of some evocative language.” Writing in Welcom, Drennan made a plea for patience in regard to what action may be taken in New Zealand as a consequence Read more
Pope Francis: reviving a tradition of local variations in Catholic services Comments 0
Monday, October 9th, 2017
Pope Francis has changed Catholic Canon law – and met with some intense reactions. At stake here is the language used for the Mass and the question of who has the responsibility for translating the Catholic liturgy into regional languages. So why should this issue be so very controversial in the 21st century? Early history As a Read more
Liturgy crisis: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI blames “obscuring” God Comments 0
Monday, October 9th, 2017
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI says “obscuring” God in the liturgy is the root cause of the current crisis in the Church. In the preface to a new Russian edition of his book “Theology of the Liturgy”, Benedict writes that a widespread misunderstanding of the liturgical reform led to people placing their “own activity and creativity Read more
