Author: John Schultz

I know a priest who insists that every verse of every hymn is sung for hymns/songs picked for the liturgy.
Does anyone have any informed thoughts on the benefits/drawbacks of that?
I believe the reason he does it is that he considers most hymns to be complete prayers, if sing only a verse or two, you’ve missed out on some of the richness of the rest of the text.
Let me know if you have any thoughts, please.

Steve – you need to add the spam first so all the healthy spam juices can escape and mingle with the potatos. I saw Alton Brown do it on Good Eats.

After a long vacation, the tidbit has returned. It’s in the right side bar, just scroll down a bit. This will please small children, men and old men. This will frighten dieticians, wives and vegans. Don’t blame me, blame my imagination.

Hi, All – I’m defering to the likes of Amy Welborn on discussing IT. IT being the thing that is the complete focus of everyone’s attention these days.
I will say that I heard the reverend McBrien from Notre Dame on WMAL in DC this morning and it colored my day charcoal gray. Can someone tell me where in the Vatican II docs it says there should be lay involvement in the minute details of Church governance? Please do. Because if he is right, I am ignorant. If he is wrong, he’s a liar with an agenda – he’s a theology professor and should know better, I’m a lay person who hasn’t had a chance to read all the docs just yet. Them’s fightin’ words, I know – but I could really use an answer.

Steve – I think you are being cranky. We need some sort of catch-all term for what’s going on because you can’t constantly refer to it as “Priests abusing kids and teenagers” “Bishops convering their tracks and shuffling priests around” “High-dollar hush money and settlements” “Some still in office even though they’ve obviously not been good shepherds” “More concerned about the priest-perpetrators than the victims” “Hiring PR Company to try to sort things out” etc.
Now do you understand why “The Situation” is the catch-all term? Everyone knows what’s going on. It’s so huge it has it’s own name that packed with the issues above.