Liturgy

Liturgy sub-categories:   Mass  | Documents  | Essays  | Liturgy of the Hours  | Latin  | Other

Mass

• A Giant Leap Forward for the Ordinary Form
• A Holy Parade? (Part 1)
• A Holy Parade? (Part 2)
• A Primer on Liturgical Music
• A Sung Gospel!
• About Face?
• Active Participation and Singing
• Alleluia
• Asperges
• Asperges (The Catholic Encyclopedia)
• Balancing the Buts
• Biblical Origins
• "The Bread of Life to Eat"
• The Chabanel Psalms - New and Better Psalms for Your Parish
• Communion Antiphon
• Does It Matter What We Sing at Mass?
• Entrance
• Entrance Psalms
• Eucharistic Prayer II
• Exploring the Relationship between the Penitential Act and Kyrie at Mass
• Extraordinary Form Resources
• Go — and Play — Unto the Altar of God
• The Golden Thread of Music
• How to Put God Back at the Center of the Liturgy
• Introit
• The Kiss of Peace
• Liturgical Loopholes
• Liturgical Music: The Ideal, The Innovation, The Future
• Liturgical Myth Busters
• Liturgy, Properly Done
• Mass in the Ancient Roman Rite
• The Mass: The Jewish Passover and Temple Sacrifice Fulfilled
• Music for the Offertory Chant
• Musical Obesity
• Musical Options at Mass
• The Necessity of Music
• The New Youth Mass
• Offertory Antiphons
• Oh Mom!
• On Some Musical Differences between the Extraordinary and Ordinary Forms of the Mass
• One Pastor's Message: Communion Antiphons
• Priorities
• Proper Attire
• Proper Attire and the Marvels of Option Four
• Propers in Manchester
• Propers of the Mass versus the Four Hymn Sandwich
• Protestant Songs at Mass?
• Renewing A Vision: The Meaning of Participation in Sing to the Lord: Music in Catholic Worship
• Revised Grail Psalms
• Revised Roman Missal: Understanding the reasons for the changes
  - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
• Roman Missal 3.0 — Updates Installed
• Rules from Rome?
• The Sacred Liturgy as a Monument or Witness of Tradition
• Sacred Music and the Liturgical Year
• Same Thing, Different Names
• Sign of Peace
• Silent Action of the Heart
• Singing the Mass Propers in English
• The Angels in Worship
• The Flexibility of the Roman Missal during Ordinary Time
• The Lamb of God Set Right
• The Parish Musical Convention Is Unsustainable
• The Pedagogy of the School Mass Liturgy
• The Profound Connection
• The Ten Most Common Liturgical Abuses
• Thoughts on Traditionis Custodes
• Understanding the Grammar of the Roman Missal, Third Edition
• Vatican II Liturgy?
• Wardrobe Malfunction: Polyester Liturgy
• Weekday Mass
• Where Are the Books of Propers?
• Why is the Kyrie in Greek?

Documents

• Cantate Domino Canticum Novum
• Ecclesia semper reformanda
• General Instruction Basics
• Letter & Observations on New Sacramentary Status
• Liturgical Books
• Liturgical Norms
• Liturgical Suprises
• Lost in Translation: How the New Mass Translation Will Affect You
• Magnum principium: A Commentary
• New Liturgical Calendar
• On "Summorum pontificum"
• Pacem relinquo vobis: Circular Letter on the Ritual Expression of the Gift of Peace at Mass
• Redemptionis Sacramentum: Liturgy of the Eucharist
• Sing to the Lord, All the Earth!
• Summorum pontificum Notes: A music professor's perspective
• The Instruction Musicam sacram after Fifty Years

Essays

• The First Eucharistic Procession  New! 22 July 2024
• About that Orans Posture
• All the Arts Contribute to Excellence in Liturgical Prayer
• Bad Music and Liturgical Tinkering Make Clericalism Worse
• Brompton Oratory Has Lessons for Parishes
• Catholic Identity
• Cardinal Ratzinger on Liturgical Music
• Church Fathers and Church Music
• The Death and Resurrection of Sacramental Signs
• The Dignity of the Liturgy
• Discovering the Transcendent and the Immanent in the Liturgy
• The Early Eucharist: How Was It Experienced?
• Faithful Moderates
• Feelings
• Fifty Years of Effete and Infertile Liturgical Culture Is Enough
• Fighting the 'Battle' of Prayer in the Liturgy
• The Form of the Liturgy
• Give 'Sheer Faith' a Try during Sunday Mass
• Holy Liturgy and the Sense of the Sacred
• How to Get Beyond the Mediocrity of Liturgical Music with Excellence
• How You Pray Is How You Believe
• The Jargon of Liturgists: Brain-washing the Faithful
• Learning to Pray Liturgically
• The Liturgical Cliff
• The Liturgical Experts' Long Tassels
• The Liturgical Formation of Children
• Liturgical Language and the Roman Missal
• Liturgical Manners
• Liturgical Submission
• The Liturgical Year Is a Treasure of Our Catholic Tradition
• Liturgy at the Masters
• The Liturgy Is Not Me: Why We All Should Worship Like Catholics
• Liturgy: Work of God or Work of the People?
• Music at Mass: What the Church Teaches about Liturgical Music
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Part 3
• Musicians in Catholic Worship
  • Part 1: Banish the Soloists – Let the People Sing
  • Part 2: Where Have All the Organists Gone?
  • Part 3: Bells and Whistles, Guitars and Tambourines
• Obedience to the Gift
• On Wine and Music
• 'One Size Fits All' is False Advertising for Prayer in Liturgy
• Papal Liturgies
• The Practicality of Chant in Modern Liturgy
• The Priest Celebrant — Encouraged to Sing
• Prophet of Music
• Re-Enchanting the Mass: How beauty affects belief
• Tools at the Ready
• The Sacred Liturgy as a Monument or Witness of Tradition
• The Snowbird Statement on Catholic Liturgical Music
• The Son as Sacrament
• The Strange Rejection of the Roman Gradual
• Two Different Documents on Liturgical Translation
• Value of the Mass does not depend on externals
• Victory?
• Wandering in the Desert
• What Have We Done?
• What Would I Like to See?
• Whither Summorum pontificum?
• Why Do We Have Liturgical Norms?
• Why Not Let the Liturgy Form Us?
• Why There's Hope for Catholic Liturgical Music

Liturgy of the Hours

• Art of Prayer: Pope Urges Laity to Pray the Liturgy of the Hours
• The Breviary
• Canticle of the Lamb (John Paul II)
• Conception monks break ground composing new Liturgy of the Hours
• God My Savior (John Paul II)
• Guide to the Liturgy of the Hours
• Extended Vigil of the Office of Readings
• Liturgy of the Hours in the Parish
• Liturgy of the Hours Seminar
• The Liturgy of the Hours
• Simply Divine Office
• Sing a New Psalm — and Canticle
• Timely Devotion

Latin

• Could More Use of Latin Overcome the Divisions in Liturgical Prayer?
• Lingua latina simul cantare sciant
• Liturgical Latin — Reconsidered
• "O No, Not Latin Again!"

Other

• A New Calendar?
• Altar Consecration
• Citizens of the Sanctuary
• Glory to the Trinity: The Liturgical Doxologies
• The Holy Circle
• How Your Church Name Affects Your Liturgy
• Letter on Sacred Music in the Liturgy
• Liturgical Growth
• Liturgical Music Curriculum in Rome
• Living the Liturgy of July
• The Paradigm: Reflections on the 2007 CMAA Colloquium
• The Psalms — Origin & Organization
• Stations of the Eucharist