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Some weeks back, I wrote about the challenge of singing the Exultet — and I’ve gone on record describing my own experience scaling that mountain for the first time. Now the refrain has been picked up by the Catholic Review in Baltimore: Every Easter Vigil, deacons throughout the archdiocese face one of the most challenging…

A blogger in Africa has some thoughts on what it means to take part in the celebration of mass in that corner of the world — and it sounds like something amazing: The Catholic Mass in places like Malawi absolutely blows the American Catholic Mass out of the water. Mass is a fusion of the…

An alert priest sent this my way, and I thought it worth posting and discussing. From Zenit: Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy at the Regina Apostolorum university. Q: During Holy Week the Chrism Mass liturgy includes the rite of Renewal of Commitment to Priestly Service. During the rite the…

Last year, I had my first experience scaling the Everest of liturgical chant, the Exultet. (I blogged about that, and my first Triduum, here, and that account was recently reprinted in Deacon Digest.) I know a few guys who now find themselves in the same position I was in last year: staring at the calendar,…
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