Did you know that these childrens’ eucharistic prayers have the acclamation “Christ has died” … in a Latin dynamic equivalence translation of the English??
Archive for category Children
Our first two posts on teaching liturgy concerned college and graduate school. This one looks at the challenge and opportunity of teaching liturgy to children and youth. Featured in this post: Catherine Maresca, Dave Ceasar Dela Cruz, CCS, and Rita Burns Senseman.
While we were pondering the fine points of liturgical celebration…
The Boston Archdiocesan Choir School is relying on the 27-year-old Robinson, a former assistant organist at the Canterbury Cathedral and a product of the Anglican choir school tradition, to lead it into a new era. He will need all the confidence he can muster.
I know we’ve discussed this on PrayTell more than once, but this week there’s a featured discussion forum on babycenter.com about toddlers in church. How much do forums like this one contribute to contemporary Christians’ understanding of liturgy, its purpose, and their role in it?
Play a game of thanksgiving
Nov 28
Sometimes it’s hard to know how to affirm and develop young children’s understanding of abstract virtues like gratitude and generosity. Then again, sometimes it’s also just hard to get rid of the stuff I have that I don’t need.
And the true ancient tradition of the whole Catholic Church is to give Communion to infants. Present Latin usage is a medieval innovation.
Listen for the breath of God
Sep 10
Today is my son’s baptismal anniversary: he was baptized on Sept 10, 2006. I thought I’d republish this post I wrote on my personal blog when he was an infant as a commemoration.
Fr. X was what you might call a Catholic McCarthyite.
Becoming present to God in the liturgical action, participating fully and willingly in God’s trinitarian act of salvation for us, is the ideal of liturgy. This willing participation, though, is a skill as well as a choice. Coping with distraction is one of the components of this skill.