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Word is trickling out from Rome that the first phase of new English translations of the mass have been approved. It will likely be another 2-4 years before we start hearing them in church. But the article below from CNS gives a preview of things to come: The Vatican has given its approval to a…

I’ve heard it, you’ve heard it, we’ve all heard it: clapping during mass. I know one or two priests who encourage it (to express appreciation for the choir or to pay tribute to an usher turning 80) but sometimes it just happens, even at the most reverent of liturgies. Now a clapper is ‘fessing up,…

People who were pulling their hair out over the wider use of the Latin mass can now have an official, low-grade freak-out. It sounds like more changes in the mass could be coming soon, to a sanctuary near you: The rite of the Mass could change. According to some indiscretions, Benedict XVI has charged the…

…you will receive communion from the Pope on your knees. That’s the word from the Catholic News Service: Receiving the Eucharist on the tongue while kneeling before the pope will become the norm at papal liturgies, said the Vatican’s liturgist. While current norms allow the faithful to receive the Eucharist in the hand while standing,…
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