April 2022 archive of Music & Liturgy Musings
The Rites of Holy Week
Posted by Anthony Gallina on 4/12/22
We now enter the most sacred and solemn time of the liturgical year. Once arriving at Palm Sunday, no other liturgical celebration can outrank the days of Holy Week—they are in the highest category on the table of precedence. Any attempt to summarize even one of the liturgies of ... Read More »
The Veiling of Statues
Posted by Anthony Gallina on 4/01/22
As you entered the church, you probably quickly noticed that the statues and altar cross are veiled. Why? We find this rubric in The Roman Missal on the top of the page for the Fifth Sunday of Lent: In the Dioceses of the United States, the practice of covering crosses and ... Read More »
Acts of Reverence for the Eucharist in the Liturgy
Posted by Anthony Gallina on 4/01/22
Fr. Poggemeyer notes in his bulletin letter that we treat holy things in a certain way, and the Eucharist is the holiest of all “things” because it is Christ himself. For cradle Catholics (myself included), we likely were taught at a young age acts of reverence to the Eucharist; ... Read More »