In correspondence with the Editor, Luke Coppen, I discovered that I had been too coy about posting the articles here. Since I am paid a fee for them, I felt that it was not my business just to publish them at will. However publishing is changing fast and the editor is happy for me to post my articles - and indeed to have a link to the Herald to boot. So you'll be getting my CDs, as we call them, regularly from now on - after the print edition of the paper is out.
You might also be able to help by submitting dilemmas. Remember that I have to answer them in 350 words. I do make a point of limiting liturgical articles - I do some, but want to keep a balance between those questions, moral, spiritual, and doctrinal questions and occasional light-hearted and off-the-wall items. Feel free to pose dilemmas in the combox but please don't expect me to reply there. You may help me to get the article written a little earlier than just before the deadline but I can't operate a general internet agony uncle service. (Funerals, Baptisms, visiting to do, Masses to say, you know the sort of thing.)
I just filed CD number 249 today so I'll post up some of the back catalogue in due course. In another post, I'll ask about how to get the whole lot online in the most efficient way possible. (They are all in Word files.)
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Do you mean like: "My uncle, a laicised Jesuit, wants to marry his cousin (my second cousin once removed), a laicised Dominican nun, in a Benedictine Abbey in a diocese in which neither of them live, and they want an Ordinariate Ordinary to celebrate in the Italo-Albanian Rite. How many permissions will they need and from whom, and can the female Swedish Lutheran Bishop of Uppsala be one of the witnesses?"
I’m in Australia where the new school term is just about to start, I’m sure the mums at my son’s Catholic primary will have many dilemmas – here are a few:
I’ve been rostered on to help with Children’s Liturgy. Do I need to bring my children?
My son is making his First Holy Communion this year. Can he wear jeans?
The young girl reading at Mass, wore denim shorts. Where can I get them?
I have to bring a cake to the monthly Family Mass. Can I just drop it off, or do I have to stay for Mass?
Our priest asked us to pray for Australia in the cricket, do I really have to?
If I arrive at Mass with a takeaway coffee, can I bring it in with me?
When the acolyte drops the host, do I pick it up or does he?
I went to Mass at Christmas and the words had changed. When did that happen?
You have to love them! (Though I do feel I’m going to have to say something about that acolyte to our priest).
Many thanks, Tonia - I take the point, but actually some of those would be quite fun to do. I've made a note of them in my list for future dilemmas :-)
Ttony - you have used up 20% of the word count with the question. The short answer, as I always tell my students, is to ring the Vicar General.
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