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Devotional Catholicism and the Domestic Church

Fr. David Friel · June 17, 2020

HIS month, the Society for Catholic Liturgy (SCL) has been hosting a three-part series of Thursday-afternoon webinars designed to address the liturgical, theological, and pastoral implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first two installments of the series have been excellent, focusing on the liturgy, itself, as the starting point for determining how to adjust and sing our public worship during these unusual times.

This Thursday’s presentation is entitled Devotional Catholicism and the Domestic Church—A Timely Retrieval. The panel will consist of three experts from the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.

Thursday, June 18, 2020
3:00 – 4:15 PM (Eastern Daylight Time)

Dr. Timothy P. O’Malley — Academic Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, McGrath Institute for Church Life
Ms. Carolyn Pirtle — Program Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, McGrath Institute for Church Life
Dr. Brett Robinson — Director of Communications, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, McGrath Institute for Church Life

Participation in this Zoom webinar is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

The Society for Catholic Liturgy is a multidisciplinary association of Catholic scholars, teachers, pastors, and professionals—including architects and musicians—in the Anglophone world. Founded in 1995, the non-profit society is committed to promoting scholarly study and practical renewal of the Church’s liturgy.

The SCL hosts an annual conference and publishes the journal Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal (ISSN 1543-9925). Membership requirements are posted on the society’s homepage.

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Fr. David Friel

About Fr. David Friel

Ordained in 2011, Father Friel served as Parochial Vicar at St. Anselm Parish in Northeast Philly. He is currently a doctoral candidate in liturgical theology at The Catholic University of America.—(Read full biography).

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One of our most popular downloads has proven to be the organ accompaniment to “The Monastery Hymnal” (131 pages). This book was compiled, arranged, and edited by Achille P. Bragers, who studied at the Lemmensinstituut (Belgium) about thirty years before that school produced the NOH. Bragers might be considered an example of Belgium “Stile Antico” whereas Flor Peeters and Jules Van Nuffel represented Belgium “Prima Pratica.” You can download the hymnal by Bragers at this link.

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15 February 2021 • To Capitalize…?

In the Introit for the 6th Sunday after Pentecost, there is a question regarding whether to capitalize the word “christi.” The Vulgata does not, because Psalm 27 is not specifically referring to Our Lord, but rather to God’s “anointed one.” However, Missals tend to capitalize it, such as the official 1962 Missal and also a book from 1777 called Missel de Paris. Something tells me Monsignor Knox would not capitalize it.

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15 February 2021 • “Sung vs. Spoken”

We have spoken quite a bit about “sung vs. spoken” antiphons. We have also noted that the texts of the Graduale Romanum sometimes don’t match the Missal texts (in the Extraordinary Form) because the Mass Propers are older than Saint Jerome’s Vulgate, and sometimes came from the ITALA versions of Sacred Scripture. On occasion, the Missal itself doesn’t match the Vulgate—cf. the Introit “Esto Mihi.” The Vulgate has: “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in domum refúgii…” but the Missal and Graduale Romanum use “Esto mihi in Deum protectórem et in locum refúgii…” The 1970s “spoken propers” use the traditional version, as you can see.

—Jeff Ostrowski

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“The free space which the new order of Mass gives to creativity it must be admitted, is often excessively enlarged. The difference between the liturgy with the new liturgical books, as it is actually practiced and celebrated in various places is often much greater than the difference between the old and new liturgies when celebrated according to the rubrics of the liturgical books.”

— Cardinal Ratzinger (1998)

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