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Active participation in the liturgy – what it really means
"It is not enough to assist at sacred rites, to take part in ceremonies and collective prayers; this must all be vivified by personal, interior prayer."
 • 
Manuel de Meer Méndez
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The Roman Liturgy – Easter, Faith and Failing to Recognise the Church
“Why seek you the living with the dead?”
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy – Good Friday and Christ’s Royal Throne
“God hath reigned and triumphed from the Tree.”
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy – Maundy Thursday and the Stripping of the Church
“It behoves us to glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy – The Composure and Agony of Passiontide
“A high mountain peak whose summit is bathed in sunlight, while its lower reaches are in the grips of a terrible storm.”
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy – The Silence of Passiontide
"Dumb as a lamb before his shearer, he shall not open his mouth."
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy: Lent, Laetare Sunday and the Church
“It is on this Sunday that she finally unveils her own face.”
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy: Lent – “What think you of Christ?”
It’s the most important question of our lives, to which each man must give an answer.
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy: Lent and the Protection of God
“They stand, robed entirely in this Psalm, before the God they have come to worship.”
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy: Septuagesima – The Babylonian Captivity and the Crisis in the Church
“The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath cursed his sanctuary.”
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy: Septuagesima – The Beginning of the Liturgical Year?
“A new season has dawned, dark and foreboding.”
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S.D. Wright
The Roman Liturgy: Epiphanytide – “Ordinary Time” or our Entrance into Eternity?
“For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest.”
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S.D. Wright
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