On the First Sunday of Advent this year (29 November 2015), a new Missal of the Catholic Church was used for the first time in parishes of the Ordinariates in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States and Canada. It was an historic occasion with radical...
Ever since apostolic times the Church has shown deep concern to offer a type of worship which would meet the exigency of God’s utter holiness. Therefore, she always prayed to God the Father, particularly in the Latin tradition, through Christ in the Holy Spirit. Our...
Fr Tim Finigan was keynote speaker at the 2013 ACCC Conference. This is the third of four papers he presented at the conference. They were: Vatican II and its context. Trent and Vatican II: compared (not contrasted). The hermeneutic of continuity. Church,...
The Priest is published twice each year, and all members and associates receive a copy. Overseas subscriptions are also available. Each issue of the The Priest is uploaded twelve months after publication date. This article will be freely available online from December...
On July 16th 1848 Pugin with all his family and colleagues gathered for a Mass in this church, but it was no ordinary mass, it was the first High Mass in Ramsgate, indeed East Kent, since the Reformation. Pugin loved it. It’s therefore fitting that on his bicentenary...
I have no doubt that the Sacred Liturgy is dear to the heart, and central in the expression of faith and the ministry of each one present, priests and seminarians. For me this has been so from as young as I can remember: the seeds of this awareness germinating in my...
The new Missal translation is like rediscovering buried treasure Many Catholics who regularly go to Mass seem to be unaware that the texts we use to worship God have been translated from Latin. For over 40 years, ever since the new rite of Mass (Novus Ordo) was...
The current religious scene of occasional and cultural Catholics Catholics in the Western world are facing a bit of a liturgical crisis. We have more and more members who are “cultural” and “occasional” Catholics. They perhaps know more about various forms of Eastern...
In recent years, the notion of the genius of the Roman Rite has seen resurgence. That the Oratorian, Fr Michael Lang, and the Jesuit, Fr Keith Pecklers, have both published books called The Genius of the Roman Rite testifies to the usefulness of this turn of phrase....
The purpose of this paper is to provide some considerations that may help priests and everyone else involved in pastoral ministry with the introduction of the new English translation of the third editio typica of the Missale Romanum (2002, reprinted 2008), the...