History and Tradition
"History" and "tradition" are not synonyms, but two different ways of living with the past that need each other as the Church journeys into the future
View ArticleTwo Cheers for Eucharistic Prayer II
I am willing to offer, if not three, at least two cheers for Eucharistic Prayer II.
View ArticlePraying for Peace with Sighs Too Deep for Words
We do not want to pray unintelligently, but we also cannot evade the ultimately mysterious aspect of all our acts of prayer.
View ArticleArs Praedicandi: “On the night he was betrayed…”
In our eucharistic celebration we recall this night with these words: “For on the night he was betrayed…”
View ArticleLiturgy, the Body, and Memory
Pascal wrote that "we are as much machine as we are mind," and this seems borne out by our experience of liturgy.
View Article“Good Liturgy” and “What I’m Used To”
There is sometimes an under-appreciated connection between repetition over time and something being “meaningful.”
View ArticleBaltimore Cathedral Restores Use of the High Altar
Though the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore was dedicated in 1959, its design did little to anticipate the changes in liturgical practice that were to sweep through the Catholic Church in the...
View ArticleWhen is the Vernacular Not the Vernacular?
This morning I attended Mass in a major English-speaking city at a church well known for its very traditional liturgies. Though the Mass according to the 1962 Missal is celebrated daily at this church,...
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