03.30.2009 2:34 pm
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Dr. Efraín Agosto
TOMORROW night (Tues, March 31) Dr. Efraín Agosto, Dean of Hartford Seminary (Conn.) and professor of New Testament, will be speaking at Concordia Seminary on the topic of leadership, especially as it relates to the biblical letters of Paul (his area of expertise).
I just attended a lunch meeting where Dr. Agosto spoke. This promises to be a thought-provoking event at the intersections of leadership, Latino and multicultural issues, and the Bible.
The lecture will be at 7:00PM in the Seminary’s Werner Auditorium. It is free and open to the public.
(Werner Auditorium is on the north end of Concordia’s Clayton campus. DeMun Avenue dead-ends into a campus drive that leads into the north-end parking lot closest to the auditorium.)
The event is hosted by the Center for Hispanic Studies (CHS) at Concordia Seminary, and it is the fourth Annual…
07.30.2008 4:12 pm
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(1) CWNews: The new English Translation of the Order of Mass for the United States was approved by the Vatican July 28:
The United States Bishops Conference announced that it received the go ahead from the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to the first section of the translation of the third edition of the Roman Missal.
It includes most of the texts used in every celebration of the Mass, and involves new translations of the penitential rite, Gloria, creed, Eucharistic prayers, Eucharistic acclamations and Our Father.
Amanda Shaw, blogging at FIRST THINGS, is enthusiastic about the changes, to put it mildly:
Some of the oddities and abominations of the English translation of the liturgy are about to go extinct, reported the Congregation for Divine Worship last week……
Go here to see some of the changes.
(2) The Knights of Peter Claver,…
