To introduce a poorly translated and sexist lectionary, as appears will be the case, shows that the English-speaking bishops’ conferences have learned nothing from the 2011 new missal debacle. I wil
Tom O'Loughlin has reflections on the question in an article in La Croix last August, which may be of interest.
"New lectionary translations: what is the problem?"
https://www.academia.edu/43819305/N
What better home for a defibrillator than a Confessional Box? Wasn't Confession at its best the Church's sacrament of defibrillation: an external high energy shock to the heart stuck in cardiac arrest
I note that the Oct 7th Statement from the Autumn (on-line) meeting of the Episcopal Conference has no reference to any discussion about this matter (the new lectionary) at their meeting.
Gerry O'Hanl
In a Furrow article, PREVENIENT GRACE, August 2013, my response to the New Missal which we began using in Advent 2011, I wrote the following conclusion:
Words matter. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's defini
Excellent letter. Very well drafted.
Can you share the replies?
Editor: Replies were most positive with assurances that the matter will be discussed by the Irish Bishops' Conference.
My take with today's Gospel is that we have to love God and neighbour. What is amiss in us almost all the time is that we do not love unconditionally. You will hear someone say that I love X because o
Fratelli tutti is sociologically acute. Once we lived on farms, tough but natural life, with real community despite the occasional feud. Then came electricity, the creamery, the radio, the tractor, th
Paddy, I'm using that language tongue-in-cheek of course, dragging it in from its proper context in Trinitarian theology and Christology.
Binitarianism is a term used to describe the idea that Chris
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Letter from ACP Leadership to every bishop over Lectionary translation concerns
October 28 2020To introduce a poorly translated and sexist lectionary, as appears will be the case, shows that the English-speaking bishops’ conferences have learned nothing from the 2011 new missal debacle. I wil
Letter from ACP Leadership to every bishop over Lectionary translation concerns
October 28 2020Tom O'Loughlin has reflections on the question in an article in La Croix last August, which may be of interest. "New lectionary translations: what is the problem?" https://www.academia.edu/43819305/N
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Letter from ACP Leadership to every bishop over Lectionary translation concerns
October 28 2020Out of the 26 dioceses only 8 replies!! Where are the other 18?
Letter from ACP Leadership to every bishop over Lectionary translation concerns
October 28 2020I note that the Oct 7th Statement from the Autumn (on-line) meeting of the Episcopal Conference has no reference to any discussion about this matter (the new lectionary) at their meeting. Gerry O'Hanl
Letter from ACP Leadership to every bishop over Lectionary translation concerns
October 28 2020In a Furrow article, PREVENIENT GRACE, August 2013, my response to the New Missal which we began using in Advent 2011, I wrote the following conclusion: Words matter. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's defini
Letter from ACP Leadership to every bishop over Lectionary translation concerns
October 28 2020Excellent letter. Very well drafted. Can you share the replies? Editor: Replies were most positive with assurances that the matter will be discussed by the Irish Bishops' Conference.
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