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Tag Archives: active participation
QUAERITUR: Is it okay for people to listen to music rather than always to sing everything during Mass?
From a priest: Is it against the mind of the Church when a choir alone sings a hymn at the offertory and preparation of the gifts or are the people supposed to sing along as well? No, it is not … Read More
Benedict XVI on liturgical worship and our identity
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! This is GREAT. The Holy Father’s Wednesday Audience with my emphases and comments: VATICAN, OCTOBER 3, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI gave today in St. Peter’s Square. The … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Benedict XVI, Brick by Brick, Fr. Z KUDOS, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, The Drill, The future and our choices, Year of Faith
Tagged active participation, Benedict XVI, CCC 1073, CCC 1097, CCC 2565, Holy Mass, identity, liturgy, prayer
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The Holy Father on active participation and worth, reverent liturgical worship
The Holy Father, in his video address to the Eucharistic Congress in Ireland, made some statements about our liturgical participation. POPE BENEDICT XVI’S MESSAGE AT CLOSING MASS […] Based upon a deepening appreciation of the sources of the liturgy, the … Read More
To speak or not to speak: that is the question! Active Participation and the Extraordinary Form
Please use the sharing buttons! Thanks! At Crisis I found an interesting piece about the older, traditional form of Holy Mass in the Roman Rite and “active participation”. In the article “The Traditional Mass is Not a Spectator Sport by … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Our Catholic Identity, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM, The Drill
Tagged 1962 Missal Romanum, 1962MR, active participation, Bp. Bransfield, Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem, congregational singing, D. Wheeling-Charleston, liturgical responses, liturgy, worship
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For Lay People: Participation at Holy Mass: Which Form? WDTPRS POLL
Rorate has a poll going for their readers about participation at Holy Mass in the Ordinary Form, the Novus Ordo. The way to know their readers, thought it is clearly gauged for lay people, not priests. I think that … Read More
US cATHOLIC attacks the Bishop of Covington. Wherein Fr. Z rants.
Our liturgical disputes have, I think, lined up between two parties: those who have a correct understanding and those who have a defective understanding of “active participation”. Correctly understood, the “full, conscious and active participation” desired by the Council Fathers … Read More
Account of participation for the first time at Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form
At a blog called Having Left The Altar (a reference to a quote from St. Frances of Rome, a favorite of mine) there is a refection on a first experience of the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass in the Roman … Read More
QUAERITUR: Degrees of dialogue during the Extraordinary Form – WDTPRS POLL
I do confess that it is sometimes disconcerting while saying Mass in the Extraordinary Form, to turn around, say “Dominus vobiscum” and not even hear crickets in return and barely a chirp from the server(s). I have gotten used to … Read More
WDTPRS POLL: Your Mass preparation and follow up during the week
I am curious about your preparation for Holy Mass or Divine Liturgy on Sundays and Holy Days or Feasts. This applies to both forms of the Roman Rite and other Rites as well. Please choose the best answer and, if … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, Our Catholic Identity, POLLS, The Drill
Tagged active participation, Divine Liturgy, liturgy, Mass
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