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Two central interests in the ministry of Pope Benedict are music and the sacred Liturgy; other interests you might say are evangelization, theology and culture. At recent gatherings with the Pope he spoke about music as a concert given by a group of Spanish musicians and then to the bishops of New York State making their pilgrimage to Rome to pray and speak with the Pope about their work. Below are two interesting sets of ideas worthy of reflection:<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n On music<\/i><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n “…the magic Pope <\/font><\/p>\n November 26, 2011<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n On the sacred Liturgy<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n “A weakened sense of the meaning and importance of Christian Two central interests in the ministry of Pope Benedict are music and the sacred Liturgy; other interests you might say are evangelization, theology and culture. At recent gatherings with the Pope he spoke about music as a concert given by a group of Spanish musicians and then to the bishops of New York State making … Continue reading Benedict on music and Liturgy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1713,1977,32081],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nworked by music, the universal language which can overcome all barriers and
\nallow us to enter the world of others, of a nation or a culture, at the same
\ntime enabling us to turn our mind and hearts … to the world of God.”<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nBenedict XVI to musicians<\/span><\/p>\n
\nworship can only lead to a weakened sense of the specific and essential
\nvocation of the laity to imbue the temporal order with the spirit of the
\nGospel. America has a proud tradition of respect for the Sabbath; this legacy
\nneeds to be consolidated as a summons to the service of God’s Kingdom and the
\nrenewal of the social fabric in accordance with its unchanging truth.”<\/span>
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