like incense, or vestments or music, ignoring that sentence about justice flowing like streams, have used this text to prove that God also dislikes, liturgy, or incense, or vestments, or whatever. However, that’s not what this lesson is about and I’ll get back to that in just a momen...
Well, then, what are we to do. A sentence, not a question, because I’m not sure anyone is really in a place to answer that yet, and I have a sinking suspicion that any answer would be premature. So for now, I will be like a tree. I will give thanks for my many communities,...
It may have become customary, therefore, as early as the Persian period to recite the first sentence of the "Shema'" in the Temple before beginning the sacrifice, the other verses, including Deut. xi. 13-21, being added in the course of time. The requirement that it should be recited ...
A bar I know across from where I used to stay makes their own cornetti. This was still so wonderfully warm from the oven and the smell in the place was terrific. Perfection. Lots of inbound traffic today but once we got out of the Trastevere Tangle the trip to FCO went quickly. I ...
When ICEL used the same tool, we got an inaccurate, unfaithful, non-sacral mess forced on people for 30 years or so. So, while dynamic equivalence may not be an evil thing in itself, any more than a screwdriver or a hammer, in the hands of those who are incompetent or knowledgeable ...
When the guitarist was a kid, his parents divorced but remained in the same home, so he was used to acting as the neutral party. After Fox and Dusenbury left Liturgy, Gann played in separate bands with each of them before becoming the de facto anchor around which the whole group ...
I cannot imagine that the document in question was indeed written by the young people themselves as the style is bureaucratic “Church talk.” The only reason I hesitate to say this apodictically is that the frequent grammatical errors and poor sentence structure do suggest the work of this gen...
This is a busy afternoon view. For a friend. Speaking of that… I wish we had this in the States. Kinda fractal! Spaghetti with clams, vongole, last night. I’m getting used to my kitchen. The basis for the clams. I’ll spare you the rest. Kitchen: really hard to work in. I ...
71). Young, however, did not claim that it was not performed in Jerusalem, but only that its performance had been discontinued. As translated above, the clause in the first sentence of the visitatio text tells us that “we do not do” something pertaining to the old liturgical use, due...