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  • The New Missal: Rita Ferrone: from Commonweal

    July 1 2011
    Ken

    I don't think the shoe fits - it's much too dainty. I think it would suit you just swell Mary dear. If we take your thesis further, we can say that Pope John XXIII tried to justify himself with Vatic

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  • A reaction to the new texts in New South Wales

    July 1 2011
    Ken

    I'm thinking the new translation is one small step in the right direction. If you have any issues with it, you should offer it up! 'Not my will, but thy will be done.'

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  • A reaction to the new texts in New South Wales

    July 1 2011
    John

    Another reason we need women priests. I feel there is no input from women and/or the laity when the "powers to be" act this way.

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  • The New Missal: Rita Ferrone: from Commonweal

    July 1 2011
    Mary Sweeney

    Many years ago when I was in Fiji I attended a week-long seminar on the Liturgy. As a sidebar to one of the discussions, the speaker pointed out that when it appears that a Pope is, for reasons of hea

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  • A reaction to the new texts in New South Wales

    July 1 2011
    Barbie

    Couldn't agree more! Is this really going to bring back the prestige and power of the church? And what about words such as "hosts" in the Sanctus? Doesn't "God of power and might" have more meaning. A

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  • A reaction to the new texts in New South Wales

    July 1 2011
    Samuel V.

    Here in France we don't (or rarely) have the confiteor during masses, however when I went to Ukraine and went to the mass there, is Russian Language, I saw it was and was not shocked at all. Today, I

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  • A reaction to the new texts in New South Wales

    July 1 2011
    Joe Murphey

    Of course, the 12 year exercise might take off in an opposite direction. The notion that church rituals aren't really to be taken very seriously at all -- sort of analogous position to the Protestant

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  • A reaction to the new texts in New South Wales

    July 1 2011
    javier

    For awhile I was debating if my characterization of the new Confetior as 'child abuse' was going too far--but apparently I'm not the only one that sees it that way--I've often thought that by inculcat

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  • A reaction to the new texts in New South Wales

    July 1 2011
    LittleBear

    Hello Melanie, I'm afraid that our bishops haven't given a thought as to the effect of these words upon our children. Sadly, I don't think that they even care. The bishops are too concerned with obe

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  • A reaction to the new texts in New South Wales

    July 1 2011
    Brother Luke

    "In my opinion," Ms. Lately is making a mountain out of a mole hill. For generatons Catholics have "taped" their breast of atonement and humility when saying the Confiteor. All of a sudden it's goin

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