The USCCB’s Secretariat for Divine Worship has recently updated their Liturgy of the Hours Second Edition progress tracker page with some key updates since the last bishops’ plenary meeting, which included votes on final-draft components of the overhaul. The changes/updates that stood out to me include (all emphases mine): Making it clear and explicit that … Continue reading
As noted in several previous posts, the U.S. bishops are well on track with completing the massive overhaul of the American Liturgy of the Hours (1975) to align with the current Latin Liturgia Horarum‘s second edition (1985) and embrace translation principles that are more faithful to the Latin text. From what the faithful have been … Continue reading
My good friend Steven Rabanal, an organist/church musician and instituted acolyte of the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, recently took the newly approved English text of the Te Deum to be used with the upcoming Liturgy of the Hours Second Edition, and set it to traditional Gregorian tones. He created Solemn and Simple … Continue reading
A nearby parish church in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, St. Philip Neri, recently completed a $1.5 million interior renovation and opened the renovated church for the worshiping public for their Christmas masses. Below are some “before” and “after” pictures. BEFORE AFTER Congratulations to the clergy, staff and parishioners of St. Philip Neri for this highly … Continue reading
As noted in previous posts, the U.S. edition of the Liturgy of the Hours is in the process of a major overhaul, conforming it to the 1985 Latin second (and current) typical edition and giving it a significantly more faithful translation. Some of the new components have already been finalized, and the U.S. Conference of … Continue reading
There have been several major milestones reached in the last couple of years in the massive project of overhauling the language and translations of English Catholic liturgy in the United States. As we strive to enter more deeply into the spirit of hopeful expectation in the Advent of this difficult and unprecedented year, this is … Continue reading
Since posting the status update on the major upcoming revision of the Liturgy of the Hours for the United States, it appears that the U.S. bishops have made additional progress on this complex, important project. Here is what we know by way of updates: The new hymnody, translated by the International Commission on English in … Continue reading
In my previous post, I discussed the ongoing revision of the Liturgy of the Hours, whose Second Edition is going to be significantly more faithful to the Latin, and which will restore — really, make available for the first time in English in an official breviary — the original hymnody of the Latin edition. When … Continue reading
Many of those who pray the liturgy of the hours in the ordinary form of the Roman rite have heard of, and are excited about, the U.S. Bishops’ ongoing revision that will result in the Liturgy of the Hours, Second Edition for use in the U.S. and some other countries, at some currently-unknown future date (according … Continue reading
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