High anxiety.(interpretation of the General Instruction on the Roman Missal)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: October 20, 2000| Author: JONES, ARTHUR | Copyright information

Liturgists angry, confused over new directives for Mass; Archbishop Lipscomb counsels calm

Don't be angry, said Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb. But the diocesan liturgical director at the microphone was clearly among the walking wounded, victims of an explosion detonated by the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy, which Lipscomb chairs.

So heightened were the anxieties of 200-plus liturgists' attending an Oct. 3-7 meeting of the Federation of Diocesan Liturgical Com...

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