"We see that things were not as black and white as was previously discussed."
"We see that things were not as black and white as was previously discussed."
The Mass of the 8th Sunday after Pentecost sets before us the household of God and the household of this world, the inheritance promised to sons and the account demanded of stewards, the freedom of those led by the Spirit and the anxious calculations of those who live according to the flesh. The Collect, Epistle,…
The Liturgical Problem is Much Deeper than the Novus Ordo.
The water is “the sign and presence of the world itself.”
Conception and creation take place within his mind and heart.
To be opened is not the same as being published.
The liturgy of the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost places a mirror before the soul and asks a question which cannot be evaded by ecclesiastical position, good intentions, or outward appearance: what fruit is being borne? The Epistle, Gospel, chants, Collect, and Postcommunion converge upon the same point. There are two servitudes, two harvests, two ends.…
His meetings with Ratzinger convinced him that he fully understood what was at stake over “the question of the liturgy.”
I consider being a writer less a profession than a vocation.
Above: Modena. On July 8, 1726—three centuries ago—the composer Antonio Maria Bononcini died in Modena, northern Italy. Born in the same city 49 years earlier, he was the younger brother of the more famous Giovanni Bononcini (†1747), remembered above all as a rival of George Frideric Handel (†1759) in England. After studying in Bologna, Antonio…
