I propose to focus on some topics connected to the spirit of the liturgy and reflect on them with you; indeed, I intend to broach a subject which would require me to say much. Not only because it is a demanding and complex task to talk about the spirit of the liturgy,...
rubric / "roohbrik" / noun 1 a heading, e.g. in a book or manuscript, written or printed in a distinctive colour or style. 2a a heading under which something is classed, b an authoritative rule, esp a rule for the conduct of church ceremonial, c an explanatory or...
Through catechisms, we are all familiar with the ends for which the Eucharistic Sacrifice is offered: in praise and adoration, for intercession and atonement. But in recent decades much less emphasis has been placed on the fourth end – that the Sacrifice of the Mass...
Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Letter, Summorum Pontificum, promulgated Motu Proprio, is an event equal in significance to Pope St Pius V’s Bull, Quo primum, of 1570, and the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium (1963)....
... I also repeat what the priest says just after receiving the Sacred Host at this Mass: “Quid retribuam Domino pro omnibus quae retribuit mihi? — What shall I render to the Lord for all the things that He hath rendered to me?” (Ps 115:12), I think also of what St...