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Some thirty years after my first encounter with him I found him to be just as eloquent a proponent of the Vatican II vision of liturgical reform.
Paper
Is the Liturgy Hitting its Target?
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I am deeply honored today to be invited to give a lecture in honor of the late Msgr. Frederick McManus. I can remember quite clearly sitting in St. Philip’s Church in Clifton, NJ sometime in the Spring of 1965, listening to an expert who had been at Vatican II speak of the new Liturgy Constitution. I was a high school senior at the time and had accompanied my older sister, who was a religious education teacher, to this session being run by Msgr. Frank Rodimer, a former student of Fred’s and the chancellor of the Paterson Diocese. It was the first talk I had ever heard on the liturgy and its impact has stayed with me up to this very day. Fred McManus was a splendid spokesman for the liturgical reform. I got to know him better in the mid1990’s when I was asked to join the then “Advisory Committee” of ICEL (the International Commission on English in the Liturgy) which Fred had helped to found. Some thirty years after my first encounter with him I found him to be just as eloquent a proponent of the Vatican II vision of liturgical reform. He was an excellent priest, a fine scholar, a wonderful administrator, a remarkable tennis fan, and best and most important of all—a real Christian gentleman. I hope that what I have to say today does him honor.
Authors
J. Baldovin
Journal
The Jurist: Studies in Church Law and Ministry