Pope Benedict The "Liturgical Pluralist" JOURNEY TO A NEW PENTECOST - November 20, 2009 I just found this month old story, "The Pope Let's A Thousand Liturgies Bloom," while reading the Wall Street Journal online early this morning: "The Vatican's announcement this week that it will allow former Anglicans who join the Catholic Church to retain a collective ... http://laydorcatholic.com/blog/?p=10696
Worshiping with our bodies... LITURGY REFLECTIONS - November 19, 2009 ... or throughout the Easter season, since these days celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Such kneeling was even condemned by the Council of Nicaea, the same council that gave us the creed we recite on Sundays. Sometimes postures become a bone of contention among some parishioners, and a cause of ... http://liturgy.blogs.com/liturgy_reflections/2009/11/worshiping-with-our-bodies.html
Holy Communion's act of reverence... LITURGY REFLECTIONS - November 19, 2009 ... hands. Others would make the sign of the cross, bow, genuflect, or even receive Communion kneeling. The result, over the last few decades, was a certain amount of visual confusion and uncertainty among people about what was appropriate at this time. The most recent directives from the Vatican clarify ... http://liturgy.blogs.com/liturgy_reflections/2009/06/holy-communions-act-of-reverence.html
A Parish Mission to Remind Me That I Am Blessed Beyond Measure CATHOLIC BY GRACE - November 19, 2009 ... said - that I am one of those blessed ones? Have I shared with you in recent days the joy of kneeling after receiving the Body and Blood of Our dear Lord Jesus? Have I mentioned what it is like to hear the words of absolution falling from the lips of God's anointed one? Tonight, at ... http://catholicbygrace.blogspot.com/2009/11/parish-mission-to-remind-me-that-i-am.html
Excellent document from the Irish Bishops THE HERMENEUTIC OF CONTINUITY - November 18, 2009 ... form of the Mass. [With regard to the formula this is true - but it should be remembered that kneeling to receive Communion on the tongue is also permitted at the Ordinary Form; and indeed encouraged by the example of the Holy Father.] At Mass in the extraordinary form, Holy Communion is received ... http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2009/11/excellent-document-from-irish-bishops.html
Heaven in Plain Sight SAINT LOUIS CATHOLIC - November 18, 2009 ... finished, but the book has already moved me so much that I wanted to say a word or two here. C.S. Lewis was fond of writing that the beauty and joy that we see here on earth is only beautiful and joyful inasmuch as it is a participation in the joy of Heaven. In other words, we acknowledge something ... http://stlouiscatholic.blogspot.com/2009/11/heaven-in-plain-sight.html
Review of The 13th Day by Leticia Velasquez CATHOLICMOM.COM - November 18, 2009 ... which ensued when she had a heavenly visitor in 1917, and the personal cost of being Our Lady's messenger. The term 13th Day refers to the series of six apparitions of Our Lady, beginning on May 13, 1917, on the thirteenth day of each month, ending on October 13, 1917 with the miracle of the sun ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Catholicmomcom/~3/2M6DbBR_Tec/
Radio Replies First Volume: Images SANCTE PATER - November 17, 2009 ... having taken that part of the first commandment which refers to images as the second of God's commandments. But do those words forbid the making of images? They do not. God was forbidding idolatry, not the making of images. He said, "Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image of anything in the ... http://sanctepater.blogspot.com/2009/11/radio-replies-first-volume-images.html
Review of "The 13th Day" CATHOLIC MEDIA REVIEW - November 14, 2009 ... which ensued when she had a heavenly visitor in 1917, and the personal cost of being Our Lady's messenger. The term 13th Day refers to the series of six apparitions of Our Lady, beginning on May 13, 1917, on the thirteenth day of each month, ending on October 13, 1917 with the miracle of the sun ... http://catholicmediareview.blogspot.com/2009/11/review-of-13th-day.html
Le Curé d'Ars IDLE SPECULATIONS - November 13, 2009 ... Le Curé d'Ars, décédé le 4 août 1859, photographié d'après nature Taken 1859 pos. montées sur carton : papier albuminé : d'après nég. sur verre au collodion Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Saint Jean-Baptiste-Marie ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/PNJD/~3/r4n9G94mH4w/le-cure-dars.html