“This won’t hurt, and it might do some good.”
Archive for February 3rd, 2010
. . . and more ashes
Feb 3
Ashes
Feb 3
Preparing ministers to assist in the distribution of ashes is a spiritual opportunity as well as a practical one.
Gathering the Scattered
Feb 3
There are multiple approaches to the question of what it means to be Catholic, and also to the question of under what circumstances one ceases to be Catholic, and finally, what all of this means vis à vis the strong claims of the Catholic tradition regarding sacramental practice.
Truth-Telling
Feb 3
This is a response to Anscar Chupungco’s talk, “Liturgical Studies and Liturgical Renewal.” The greatest growth—astounding growth, in fact—in the post-Vatican II church has been in Asia and Africa. Would this have happened had these regions not enjoyed the benefit a liturgy that was indeed clear, understandable, and expressed in the language and idioms of their own cultures?
Believing: God is the First Person
by Alan Hommerding
I have an allergy to the use of lace in albs and surplices. I have an even bigger allergy to the claim that the use of lace in vestments is somehow expressive of a “hermeneutic of continuity”.