Liturgy

I’m incredibly happy to be able to share the video of the sessions I was fortunate to attend over the summer at Notre Dame.  The Liturgical Symposium treated of the sacraments of initiation, and it was truly a treat.  This is a YouTube playlist of all the sessions, hope you enjoy them and learn something […]

Amen is a Hebrew term that means «so be it,» and is used at the end of a prayer or proclamations. It doesn’t express merely our agreement with the content of the acclamation, but expresses our personal and communal commitment to the truths expressed, and our surrender to live and apply them in our lives. […]

When the Council opened in October 11th, 1962, the first subject to be treated was the liturgy. By this time, the preparatory commission and the council fathers had the advantage of being able to draw from the expertise on liturgical matters from the liturgical movement. In fact, since 1948, Pius XII had established a liturgical […]

The scope of our presentation unfortunately prevents us from presenting a more complete survey of the names involved in the Liturgical movement; however, before entering the actual reforms of the Second Vatican Council, we would be remiss without pointing out the reforms of Pope Pius XII. By the mid 1940’s the liturgical movement had gained […]

The liturgical movement spread to other countries, and in Belgium another step in liturgical development leading to the reforms of the Second Vatican Council may be discerned in the thought of the Benedictine monk Dom Lambert Beauduin. In 1909, he delivered an address at the Congress of Catholic Workers in Belgium, where he identified the […]