Part of me senses that if we are serious about apprenticing people in the Christian way of life such that it permeates every aspect of their lives this formation must be done in an all encompassing environment of faith from dawn to dusk of every day (such as a family or a seminary) and not just on Sundays.
Archive for August 4th, 2010
Houses of Catechumens?
Aug 4
Cardinal Walter Kasper, who just retired as president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said his biggest regret is that he did not achieve an agreement on a common Communion with Protestants.
So writes Sheila O’Brien, wife, mother, daughter, sister, a product of 22 years of Catholic education and active in her parish, also a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, Chicago.
The largest pile of books has to do with my current (almost completed) research project. Tentatively entitled Lifting a Veil on Liturgy’s Past: Gender, History, and the Making of Liturgical Tradition, the book is an inquiry into the writing of liturgical history: what we think we know, what we can know, and what, at this point in time, we ought to know…