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...To the Editors: A postscript to the discus- sion of church music [Correspondence, March 22] prompted by Archbishop Weakland's review [January 15 ] of Thomas Day's book, Why Catholics Can't Sing...
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...I merely want to call attention to a traditional vehicle eminently well suited to lay participation in Catholic liturgy: Gregorian chant...
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...We could immediately provide her with a fist of crisis pregnancy centers, shelters, and residences for pregnant women in her locality or in any other state, and the phone number of her state adoption specialist...
...The rest of the Ordinary we sing to an unobjectionable but not very inspiring contemporary setting, except for the Gloria, which is in chant (but it is less than satisfying because it is too repetitious for so long a prayer...
...Can we see it in the continuing deporta- tions of Palestinians from their own home- land, without trial...
...Spread them around the church during Mass so that others can learn from them...
...It was created to do exactly what music for the Mass ought to do, put those who participate in it in touch with eternity...
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...For this reviewer, perhaps the most interesting single article was "Beyond the Legal Right," by Jason DeParle, reprint- ed from The Washington Monthly...
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...If I were the cantor or organist of a parish, I would choose a Gregorian Mass, neither too elaborate nor too simple--per- haps the Mass for the Virgin, which was IX in the book we used when I encountered chant in my Benedictine boarding school, and teach it not directly to the congregation, which is daunting, nor to a choir, since the choir is by definition separate from the con- gregation, but to a cadre of those who attend a given Mass regularly...
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...for- eign aid dollars have indeed imposed a "solution"--but only on the Palestinians, who are approaching the twenty-fourth anniversary of military occupation by Israel, nearly a quarter century of rule by military decree which has increased in bru- tality with each passing year...
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...The musical high point of the Mass I attend is the Our Father, sung a capella to the chant that has been part of the liturgy for how many years...
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...he also reports interviews with writers prominent in its defense, gently and without malice bringing out inconsistencies in their positions...
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...The signers see "promise" in the increas- ing immigration of Soviet and Ethiopian Jews into Palestine/Israel...
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...Additional background in liturgy and adult education is welcome, but not essential...
...Not pleased, because it should not have been necessary...
...Most (not all) of these writers question the morality of abortion and/or the con- stitutionality of Roe v. Wade...
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...BRUCE M. RUSSETT The writer, Dean Acheson Professor of International Relations and Political Science at Yale University, was a principal consultant to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops in the drafting of the 1983 pastoral letter, The Challenge of Peace...
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...I recall with pleasure the Midnight Mass during which I shared the fruits of my Benedictine edu- cation with those around me, including my musician husband, whom I led in Credo III...
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