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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Liturgiam Authenticam 52-53
How does one communicate the deeper meanings of Latin and bring that into a vernacular translation? 52. The translator should strive to maintain the denotation, or primary sense of the words and expressions found in the original text, as well as their … Continue reading
Funeral Lectionary: Revelation 14:13
At first, I considered it a typo. A one-verse Lectionary reading? It’s more like an alleluia verse: I heard a voice from heaven say, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” … Continue reading
Posted in Order of Christian Funerals, Scripture
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Watching The Stars Come Out
When I was on retreat this past June, I had a few nice evenings on the retreat grounds doing something I hadn’t done since I was a boy. About a half-hour before sunset, when the sun has dipped below the … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy
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Liturgiam Authenticam 51
If a variety of words is used in the original, that variety should be communicated in the translation: 51. On the other hand, a variety of vocabulary in the original text should give rise, insofar as possible, to a corresponding … Continue reading
Naturally F
My friend Bob hosted a music session at the other parish in town tonight. We sang through the five Mass settings the archdiocese has highlighted on their list for parishes. No parish is required to do all of them, but … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgical Music
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In A Flash
My hometown hosted two playoff games in fútbol over the past weekend. The young miss and I watched the televised one. I caught the internet results of the other. One involved women. The other, men. One was, granted, a match … Continue reading
Apostolicity Lacking
I’m glad to see Pope Benedict disavow the SCGS* meme, even if indirectly. I’d prefer an outright indictment of such an anti-apostolic sentiment. But this works well enough. In the pope’s list of lost hermeneutics, the Hermeneutic of Entitlement, the … Continue reading →