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The 10 Best Hymns?
By
jmcgee
Yesterday, I linked to a First Things post about the “10 Worst Hymns.” A friend and longtime reader wrote to me this morning, disappointed: I think lists like this could be a turn off for some Catholics of my generation (30s). FWIW, it didn’t sit well with me. Like it or not, hokey as these…
Only 10?
By
jmcgee
That crafty Elizabeth Scalia has drawn our attention to a list of “The Ten Worst Hymns”, which has some real doozies — some of which I’d all but forgotten. One particularly awful one — so bad, it’s good — is “Sons of God,” which seems to have disappeared from the popular canon. (God is merciful.)…
Ladies and gentlemen: the picnic mass
By
jmcgee
And now, from Austria, a little something that looks like a holiday barbecue which was, evidently, Holy Mass. (H/T) Can anyone translate??
When a priest can’t finish mass
By
jmcgee
File this under “Really Interesting Stuff Most Catholics Don’t Know.” It doesn’t happen often, but every now and then a priest is unable to complete the holy sacrifice of the mass. What then? Zenit, citing a theology manual from the 1930s, answers: “Should a priest have to interrupt the Mass due to illness or another…
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