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Mary Vallely, who states she’s  a JC fan (yes, both!), would like to share this reflection for Lent.

On the Feast of the Annunciation this article might give an impetus to the discussion on women’s contribution to salvation history

Brendan Hoban’s article in The Western People argues that Irish Bishops may be too careful and too averse to risk. Instead, he says, they need to give the type of leadership people are asking for.

The ACP Leadership Team publish the results of the Synod questionnaire published on the ACP website before Christmas. Exactly 1,562 replied to the questionnaire, the results of which are being shared with the Synod organisers in Rome.

For Funerals For Weddings For other Occasions Here are some pieces from Fr. Tom Cooney OSA, Fr. Flor McCarthy SDB, Tommy Lane and John O’Connell. More current material will hopefully…

“Building Blocks” for Funerals and Weddings

Brian Fahy asks priests to consider how well we speak to our gathered people at Mass. A former teacher of homiletics, he asks how important public speaking is in the training of priests today.

Rev. Michael G. Ryan, pastor of St. James Cathedral in Seattle since 1988, serves on the board of the national Cathedral Ministry Conference. 

This article was published in America magazine

By MIchael Commane This might well be the end of me as a priest in the Holy Roman Catholic Church. I sort of jest. Only ‘sort of’. I was ordained…

This is an interesting email that one of our members got from a parishioner in relation to the new responses at Mass.  Maybe it is something we priests might keep in mind.

If you’ve been at Mass anytime in the last six weeks you will most likely have noticed changes in many of the prayers. It’s often said that it is not…

This might give you a laugh for Christmas.

The new English translation of the Roman Missal has, understandably, been getting much attention.

The new Irish language translation was also introduced on the same day. The printed version of Ord an Aifrinn arrived in the Veritas store in Dublin just two days before that. Perhaps those who took part in celebrations in Irish (from any part of the congregation!) would offer their reflections.

Pádraig McCarthy

Some light pastoral adaptations of the new translation of the four regular Eucharistic Prayers to assist clarified proclamation. Unofficial! For personal study!

Bishop Maurice Taylor, in a wonderfully written booklet, It’s the Eucharist, Thank God, combines a beautiful teaching on the Eucharist with a unique personal view of that time period when…

The prayer after Communion seems to say we learn to love the things of heaven from the passing things of this world – but the Latin prays that it be from the mysteries celebrated in the liturgy. See letter in Tablet of 5 Nov: http://www.thetablet.co.uk/pdf/5298

Pádraig McCarthy

This article is taken from the July 15th issue of Commonweal

Interesting attack on us here by Vincent Twomey.  I wonder did any of our members know of this conference, or maybe even attended it.

Carl P. Daw, Jr., former Executive Director of the Hymn Society, priest of the Episcopal Church, is a widely recognized expert on the English language in worship, and himself an author of numerous very fine hymn texts. Pray Tell asked him to comment on the English of the revised Missal translation – not from the standpoint of how to translate from Latin, but from the standpoint of the quality of the final text.  See PDF document on http://www.praytellblog.com/index.php/2011/07/05/observations-on-the-language-of-the-revised-missal/

Posted by Melanie Lately, guest contributor , 1 July 2011, 9:00 At Mass we have cards in the pews so we can follow the revised translation of the Mass. The…