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  • Michael Commane: The Association AGM

    October 19 2011
    Sean McDonagh

    To Pat Rogers. Thanks for your very appropriate and important blast from the past. For too long priests and Christian communities celebrating the Eucharist have been pushed into a linguistic and cult

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  • Michael Commane: The Association AGM

    October 19 2011
    Simmary

    Sean, I've pondered your challenge and rebuke and tried to see these matters from your perspective. It seems to me that in your scenario I should either kow-tow or quit. But instead I choose to stay

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  • Michael Commane: The Association AGM

    October 19 2011
    Martin

    Fr Joseph, I am neither right nor left, just a simple Catholic who wishes to be at the warm heart of the Church, guided by the Holy Father and the bishops in communion with him. I reject your name-cal

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  • Michael Commane: The Association AGM

    October 19 2011
    patrogers

    Here's a blast from the past that might cool our debates about what is right or wrong in liturgical formulae. I remember as a theology student admiring the relatively liberal view about liturgical for

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  • Michael Commane: The Association AGM

    October 19 2011
    Gerard Flynn

    Apropos the new 'translation': “The language is demeaning to the People of God insofar as it re-instates a rigid separation between God and the people. It is archaic, inflated, pompous, offensively

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  • Michael Commane: The Association AGM

    October 19 2011
    Joseph O'Leary

    Martin, you are the most frequent commentator here -- priests are just too browbeaten to comment. Right wing Catholics who pounce on the very reasonable criticisms that are being made of the new litur

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  • Michael Commane: The Association AGM

    October 19 2011
    Fr S

    I read the obituary of Fr Dean Brackley SJ. Then I read Sean and Martin's posts. Can you guys eat your breakfast in the morning without instructions and permission from Canon Law? Enough said.

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  • A Challenge to RTE: Margaret Lee

    October 7 2011
    Rory Connor

    The current issue of Phoenix magazine (21 Oct - 3 Nov) names the RTE staff behind the "Mission to Prey" programme - in an article entitled "RTE Fears Record Defamation Award". The following is an extr

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  • Michael Commane: The Association AGM

    October 19 2011
    Martin

    Sean, peace be with you! That quote from the GIRM is lifted straight out of Vatican II, so those who claim to be for Vatican II ought to comply with its directives.

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  • Michael Commane: The Association AGM

    October 19 2011
    Sean (Derry)

    Simmary, should the mass therefore become a 'pick & mix' of what each individual or priest fancies? You don't say 'for us men', (just like some priests I know). The facility to attend a 'proper' m

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