In summary, the custom began to change among the faithful, and the Church deemed it prudent to let the former custom “die a natural death,” as one faithful liturgist has observed. Consequently, the 1983 Code
Any pastoral musician or liturgist who has experienced the diverse passions that the selection of a particular hymn or the use of a certain musical instrument can elicit among members of our assemblies knows that the multivalent way in which music is received is far from universal and can even...
The Missale Romanum and those ancient collections consist principally in prayers for Masses which in fancy liturgist talk are called “eucological formulas”. You might not immediately recognize astantibus as being from asto or adsto, which that ascendant lexicon of Latin lemmata, the Lewis & ...
“How much we need to recover the sense of mystery, so alive in your liturgies, which involve the human person in his totality, sing the beauty of salvation and inspire wonder at the divine greatness that embraces human smallness! And how important it is to rediscover, even in the Christia...
s thought. I was a young priest in Rome and the Second Vatican Council had just ended unleashing a great deal of change and turmoil in the Catholic Church. I was studying philosophy: chiefly, Bernard Lonergan’s philosophy on the one hand and, on the other hand, the work of Susanne K....
waiting for the first notes of the opening hymn. Very few people are in the pews, preparing to pray and worship. Instead, there is a stream of people rushing in to take a seat at the last possible moment, looking like high school kids trying to avoid being marked late for algebra class...
There are also the seven deadly sins, the seven layers of purgatory, and the seven sacraments in the Catholic church. The heptagram is a symbol of perfection (or God) in many Christian religions. Genesis 1:1 was composed of seven Hebrew words containing a total of 28 letters. Throughout ...
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson put it well in [last Thursday’s] argument: [T]he real concern, I think, is that your argument [meaning that of the federal government] seems to turn our justice system, in my view at least, into a “catch me if you can” kind of regime from the stan...
So, the church has a whole team of Bible scholars, writers, and savvy liturgists poised to take a look at Catholic liturgical prayers and readings to make them more faithful translations as well as beautiful and memorable. Sounds great? Not to some in the church who fear this group is ...