Why it is not okay to clap at mass
Papa Ratzinger (before he was pope) put it best when he wrote in The Spirit of the Liturgy: “Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy…
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Liturgical Changes to the Roman Rite-Part 7
The period comprising the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries can be regarded as a period of liturgical uniformity. One liturgical historian goes as far as…
Liturgical Changes to the Roman Rite-Part 6
The next step in liturgical development is marked by the ecclesiastical reforms initiated by Pope Gregory VII. His reforms spread to the liturgy also, as…