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I’d like to know more about this… anyone? Which Liturgical Press book?
You can’t convince me that the Catholics involved in writing this were well-intentioned. (This is from a real Liturgical Press book) pic.twitter.com/ANDHygCd4F
— Fr. John Naugle (@FatherNaugle) November 27, 2025
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You can’t make it up.
No idea who published that bilge, and I’m glad not to know. There was so much cringe on that page I had flashbacks of my time served at my alma mater’s Catholic Student Union. That read less like a prayer and more like bad, bad stream-of-consciousness posings you’d hear at a third-rate amateur poetry slam in the 1980’s.
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People forced to hear that at Mass might eventually be inclined to think that the Mass itself is just as cringe and un-serious. Which might be the actual reason garbage like that gets peddled…
Perplexity says it’s called: “Prayers of the Faithful: Cycles A B and C”
Amazon says, “This handsomely bound collection of Prayers of the Faithful was gathered from the pages of Liturgical Prayer magazine. They include prayers for each Sunday of the three year cycle, holy days, selected solemnities and feasts, and rituals such as baptism and marriage. The authors of these prayers include such respected liturgists as Peter Scagnelli; Sr. Marjorie Moffatt; Peter Fink, S.J.; Linda Schmid; William Skudlarek, O.S.B.; and Robert W. Hovda.”
Amazon link here. But something tells me you won’t be adding your affiliate info to this.. hahah
This ludicrous publication has an exceptionally perceptive critic at the Amazon website. A Mr. Foreman wrote sometime back: “These prayers are so poorly written as to be (unintentionally) comical. This is the epitome of history passing a book by. In its defense, it was written (by committee) in 1977. To say that this year was not the high point in liturgical history is an understatement. The prayers shove an ideological cocktail of anti-capitalism, identity politics, environmental radicalism and feeble theology down the throats of an unwilling congregation.”
Long have I been urging the ecclesial class to tug their heads out of the sixties. It was not my intention that they layover in the seventies.
Decades past, having spent four years of my existence in Collegevile [sic], there is no reason to believe that despite the collapse of the monastic community, they will ever emerge from the epoch of their delight. The fruit of their “labors.”
Someone apparently thought the song “These Are a Few of My Favorite Things” from “The Sound of Music” should be a model for liturgical prayer. Add one more to the list of 3,746,219,546.42 reasons the liturgy is not a plaything of amateurs.
Spectacular ceiling! Those works of art and design never fail to amaze me.
Did they lift that from one of Oprah’s gratitude journals?
Clean sheets and peanut butter rarely go well together :-)) That somehow feels like an apt image of imposing this claggy dross on the divine mysteries!
Those here who frequent The Babylon Bee (“Fake News You Can Trust”) will understand why, upon first readng, I was convinced that this was something from their website. However, as this bit of liturgical nightmare appears to be intended ‘in earnest’, I can only hope that at some point it will be translated into Latin and thus forbidden from use.
The Mass is supposed to take us out of this world. Instead prayers like this plunge us right back into it.
The TLM must be suppressed to make room for this drivel.
No worries, faithful Catholics. My generation is passing. I may not live to see it here on earth, but the upcoming generation of priests will become the bishops of tomorrow who will right the Barque of Peter and steer it to its true port in the Heart of Jesus.
The “laundry list” tradition of songwriting is included among the Psalms and Homer’s catalog of ships; but it’s what you do with it that counts.
This would have made a cute essay, but it is dumb at Mass. Also leaves out all the Eucharistic connections, which takes some doing.
Truly reads like some sad 50-something looking back nostalgically at a mis-spent youth. Some of it unsound: “second romances” – that’s a euphemism…
Christ Prince of Peace Retreat Center is north east of Benton TN. It is on the southern bank of the Hiwassee River. It is an hour and one-half drive from Holy Ghost Church (Knoxville) and a little over one hour’s drive from the Basilica in Chattanooga. I doubt the Bishop has any idea where it is. It is well over two hours from the church that offered the Latin Mass in northeast TN. At what used to be Christ the King Abbey in Cullman AL before Summorum Pontificum, I once met a man who had attended the occasional TLMs at that retreat center.
One the things to note about east TN is that the mountains run NE to SW as do the major rivers, so driving from west to east is never straightforward.
I drove from a hotel in Clevekand TN to Benton proper to pick blueberries at a grandchild’s birthday party a few months ago and we took the wrong route which meant a lot of steep curves.
I think it is clear this Bishop’s appointment was at least tacitly conditional on his crushing the VO.