Drinking with the Saints: The Sinner’s Guide to a Holy Happy Hour is a best selling book by Michael P. Foley. He invites his readers to pub crawl their way through the sacred seasons with and useful collection of cocktail recipes, distilled spirits, beer, and wine for virtually every occasion on the Catholic liturgical calendar. Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Liturgy’
CofE asked for baptism-like service for transgender people
Friday, May 29th, 2015A Church of England vicar has formally called for a new liturgy akin to baptism that would celebrate a newly transgender person’s new identity and name. Rev. Chris Newlands has put forward a motion for the church’s General Synod to consider. The vicar said he was asked about re-baptism by a church member who had Read more
Church’s short sharp Sunday service doubles attendance
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015St Mary’s Church, in Hawridge, in the UK held a Sunday service which was over in just 12 minutes. It was led by the Rector of Hawridge, Rev David Burgess, on Sunday, May 3. Burgess decided to hold the service after being set a challenge by one of his parishioners who said “I would come Read more
Altar-ed states: liturgical decor for Lent
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015“A priest friend posted the following image on Facebook this morning, describing it as “artsy church decor for Lent,” “I was wondering how other churches decorated for the season and found some examples while Googling,” says deacon Greg Kandra in his blog “The Deacon’s Bench” Have a look at what he discovered
Reforming the liturgy reform stops
Friday, November 28th, 2014
Pope Francis returned to the canonisation rite reformed by Pope Paul VI for the canonisation of six saints on Sunday. The move by the Pontiff is a reversal of the “reform of the reform” instituted by Pope Benedict. “The Rite of Canonisation introduced on October 21, 2012, by Pope Benedict XVI and which was largely based on the Rite Read more
Mobile phones and Mass don’t mix
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014It has become common for parishes to put notices in their bulletins about powering off mobile phones during parish liturgies. But not everyone takes heed. There are instances of ringtones, texting or even calls during being taken during liturgies. Deacon Greg Kandra says his favourite moment involving a cell phone in church happened near the Read more
Black vestments are the new black
Tuesday, November 4th, 2014Brooklyn’s Fr. Carlos Velasquez celebrating his first All Souls Mass as a priest last weekend at St. Sebastian’s in Woodside. This seems to be a growing trend in the U.S, Traditionally, black was used at all Masses of the dead and funeral Masses, on All Soul’s Day, and on Good Friday. In the Novus Ordo, Read more
Jesuit calls for liturgical R&D plus test runs in parishes
Tuesday, September 9th, 2014
The vacancy at the head of the Vatican’s congregation for worship is an opening for a liturgical overhaul in the Church, a Jesuit commentator believes. Writing in the National Catholic Reporter, Fr Thomas Reese, SJ, stated that liturgical reform was stalled by the papacies of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. True liturgical reform Read more
Worship congregation head reassigned out of Rome by Pope
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014
Pope Francis has reassigned one of his predecessor’s key appointments to a position out of Rome. After six years as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Antonio Canizares Llovera has been appointed Archbishop of Valencia in Spain. Cardinal Canizares told Vatican Insider that he had asked for a Read more
Flamenco dancing priest draws crowds
Friday, August 8th, 2014Unlike across the rest of Spain where the Catholic Church has struggled with falling numbers, the priest, who is known as Father Pepe, celebrates mass to a packed congregation with queues regularly forming outside his church. The 66-year-old curate delights the faithful by dancing the sevillanas – a traditional dance linked to flamenco – in Read more