The ministry of the reader at Mass is pivotal to the whole liturgical celebration.
Liturgy
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Building and renovating places of worship
Churches and cathedrals are not merely temples built according to some preconceived pattern to honor the deity, an enterprising designer or a loyal benefactor. They are powerful epiphanies or metaphors of what the church is, how it behaves and what it stands for in the modern world.
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The Style of Vatican II
John W. O’Malley, S.J.: The ‘how’ of the church changed during the council.
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The Quest for Authentic Liturgy
To draft principles and norms of translation for the nearly 800 vernacular languages of the Catholic world is a formidable taska task that should involve the broadest consultation of episcopal conferences as well as liturgical and biblical scholars. The Authentic Liturgy (Liturgiam Authenticam), a 3
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Liturgy in Media Culture
I used to think it was arrogant of the church not explicitly to include symbols from popular media culture in liturgy.
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How can the church improve the R.C.I.A. process?
From 2000: “Since R.C.I.A.’s reinstitution, the Catholic Church in the United States each year has drawn more new members than any other religious group in the nation.”
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7 basic principles for biblical and liturgical translation
The pages of America have lately been filled with articles on the question of liturgical translations. Bishop Donald W. Trautman, former chairman of the N.C.C.B Committee on Liturgy, and Cardinal Jorge A. Medina, head of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, have
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Mother of the Incarnate Word
From 1998: An introduction to a unique Marian icon.