PDF • “Lectionary Comparison Chart”
Such tinkering has gone on for 60+ years, and it’s reprehensible.
Novus Ordo Lectionary
Installment #3 • “Serious Problems with the Lectionary Translation”
“All ate a meal fit for heroes.” — Catholics in the pews deserve better than this!
Installment #2 • “Serious Problems with the Lectionary Translation”
Special ‘favors’ or ‘permissions’ or ‘exceptions’ are given to various corporations while others are denied.
The New Lectionary & “Voice of God” Hymns
The sale of indulgenced prayers is immoral. Someday they’ll have to make restitution for this.
Open Letter to Bishop Roche • “12 Considerations”
I write in response to the 6 July 2022 statement by Pope Francis: “Make your voices heard! If they do not listen to you, shout even louder.”
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They Did Something Bad & Inexplicable • (Documentation Included)
I beg you on my hands and knees to read verses 12-20.
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Glaring Omission from Post-Vatican II Lectionary
In the 1980s, Father Valentine wrote to a Vatican Congregation in Rome about this omission. It still hasn’t been fixed.
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A Literal Translation of the New Testament
David Bentley Hart’s experiment in recovering the conceptual vocabulary of a distant
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Are the Readings at Mass Meant to Be Didactic or Doxological?
Reflections from the Fota IX International Liturgy Conference
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All Nine Readings
Celebrating the Easter Vigil in Its Fullness
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Improve Your Parish Liturgy … Instantly!
Have you noticed the change in atmosphere when people dress fancy, as opposed to tank tops with jeans?
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Preparing Funeral Liturgies
Who Should Pick the Readings?
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The Real Trouble With Missalettes
Did you catch that last quotation? “Unless proper readings are given.” What does that passage mean?
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The “Children’s Liturgy of the Word”
Are We Past This Yet?
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Problematic Sequence Translations In Our Current Lectionary
Are you bothered by the VANDALISM done to Lectionary Sequence translations?
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