I received details by email of an International Liturgical Conference with the title “Benedict XVI and The Sacred Liturgy” to be held on Saturday 12 July 2008 at Fota Island, about nine miles east of Cork City, Ireland. Speakers include Professor Manfred Hauke, Prof Vincent Twomey, Dr Alcuin Reid, and Dr Michael Lang. There are some details at the NLM.
I have a wedding on that day. Let me choose my words carefully: this is most fortunate for the happy couple but unfortunate for me only in the particular respect of having to miss this excellent conference.
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I can't come either, and I originate from that part of Ireland!
Will Father Ted be reading a paper? Or is that another island?
Seriously though; do we really need all this? Just say The Mass - it's what some of us have been doing for quite a while now...
Martin - the Holy Father, Cardinal Arinze, and Archbishop Ranjith, have all contributed to the wealth of current literature that suggests that there are a few problems with the liturgy as it is currently celebrated in many places. I don't think that Ireland is entirely immune...
I am very sorry and very happy for Fr. Tim.
Very sorry that he, a liturgist, will have the misfortune to miss the Liturgical Conference at Fota Island (sorry, but I prefer to call it Oileann Fhota).
Very happy that he, a pastor, will
have the good fortune to unite two people in Matrimony, surely one of the great sacraments of the Church.
I would say to the young people :
May your days together be long and happy and may you blessed with children.
I did start to write a long discourse on Cork harbour, and on Cobh and its history, but it seemed irrelevant to this holy event, and I deleted it.
The less said about the date, the better !
And in Ireland, even in July, it will probably be raining anyway.
Indeed, Eire is not immune from problems, liturgical or otherwise.
It never has been.
That's a very interesting comment from Oliver Hayes.
In England, Hayes is usually an Anglo-Saxon location surname (as in Hayes, Middlesex).
In Ireland, the name O hAodhe was anglicised to O'Hea (strangely enough in County Cork).
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