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  • Head of Vatican liturgy office moved back to Spain

    August 28 2014
    Brendan Cafferty

    Of more significance perhaps is the fact that he is returning to Spain,this may well be a harbinger of things to come ? Just as an aside I was speaking to a few fourth year University Students in a ho

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  • Head of Vatican liturgy office moved back to Spain

    August 28 2014
    Joe O'Leary

    Diffal, the current translation offers no representation of the beauty of the Latin, and does not even attempt to. In contrast, the 1973 translation of the Roman Canon (justified line by line in a Bur

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  • Head of Vatican liturgy office moved back to Spain

    August 28 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Rarely do I see you Diffal....Allow me to clarify...I'm speaking of the text that I encountered every Sunday from about 1970 to the recent change...or, another way, the text, I had enjoyed for 30 year

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  • Head of Vatican liturgy office moved back to Spain

    August 28 2014
    Diffal

    To be fair Darlene, our "Vatican II liturgical text" was the original latin one. The english version we used for nearly 40 years was only a paraphrase of the Vatican II text. The one we use now is clo

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  • A new way of looking at the parish

    August 30 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Since prayer to me, is fundamentally relationship, it certainly, makes sense to talk to God about what we need, including what is needed in the Church. Yet, this is God's Church, and He knows what is

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  • A new way of looking at the parish

    August 30 2014
    Mary Vallely

    'Even the way we pray for vocations needs to be looked at. Generally speaking when prayers are asked for vocations this is understood as meaning prayers for male celibates. Let us be more inclusive in

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  • A new way of looking at the parish

    August 30 2014
    Kathleen Faley

    Yesterday, by pure chance I met a woman who had recently returned from Peru where she had ministered as a lay missionary for the previous three years. As we both had done religious studies between 20

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  • A new way of looking at the parish

    August 30 2014
    Darlene Starrs

    Indeed, there are a number of "cell" group communities in Ireland. Such small Christian communities have generally not worked in my area...Edmonton, Alberta, Canada...generally due to affluence and p

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  • Issues arising from the revised English of the Roman Missal

    August 23 2014
    Paddy Ferry

    Joe@5, thank you for sharing that with us. It puzzles me how some -- well, I suppose, a few -- yearn for the Mass of their childhood as if it was some glorious thing while the reality was that that m

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  • I will build my church

    August 21 2014
    bill ob

    I am curious about the phrase "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." I have always thought of this as meaning that the church would be attacked by the devil, and that hell itself with all o

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