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 ...
a custom, provided that the Church permits the modification. 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 1983Codeformally abolished a ...
The Carolingian Renaissance is a term used to describe the cultural flourishing of Western Europe in the 8th and 9th centuries under the rule of the Carolingian dynasty.
Let me offer some snapshots of the occasions for their grief, with the understanding that what I’m presenting here is acomposite. It’s not a depiction of any one parish or of all parishes. To varying degrees, you may recognize in parishes you’ve seen what I’m about to describe. ...
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....
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 ...
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...