Several weeks ago I had the opportunity to sit down with the folks at DivineOffice.org to discuss how they got started and what the future holds for them. I was very excited to learn that this project has its roots right here in Salt Lake City. The people behind this wonderful ministry are: Dane Falkner, Denise Winters, Greg Pedroza, and Christine Sharer. Below follows a summary of our conversation.
Archive for category Liturgy of the Hours
DivineOffice.Org
Jul 30
This week’s news has been full of conversation about the use of technology by powerful world organizations. FIFA is under fire for poor calls referees made in two World Cup matches on Sunday that could have been avoided with the use of technology. And, an earlier post here reporting on the Vatican’s response to Father Padrini’s iPad app for the Roman Missal has opened up a great conversation on the use of technology [MORE...]
Serving in the Diocese of Salt Lake City has opened my eyes to many challenges, especially the celebration of Sunday in the absence of a priest. Our mission diocese of 300,000 Catholics covers 84,889 square miles, has fewer than 50 priests, and is around 80% Hispanic. We have 48 parishes and 19 missions spread across the state. Of course, we also minister in a predominately Latter-Day Saint culture. These are interesting challenges for anyone in [MORE...]
All of you who pray the Liturgy of the Hours regularly will be interested in this innovation of the German-speaking OSBs. They don’t sing the Benedictus every day at Lauds, nor do they sing the Magnificat every day at Vespers.
A Sportive Spirituality?
Feb 4
While I lived at Taizé, we never used the term “spirituality” to talk about what we were doing in prayer or in our witness as a community. In an early writing, frère Roger did speak about a “sportive spirituality” (Vivre l’aujourd’hui de Dieu, Les Presses de Taizé, 1964) that inhabited the community’s life but this expression never really caught on in subsequent literature or self-understanding of the community. I’m not a fan of the term, [MORE...]
Yesterday afternoon, our friends over at the New Liturgical Movement posted a rather nice set of photographs from the “Papal Vespers on the Feast of the Presentation.” I am grateful as ever to Shawn Tribe for doing the legwork of finding and posting the photographs, together with appropriate notes.
Without having seen the broadcast of the Evening Prayer service, I can really can’t comment on more than the details I notice in the NLM photos. [MORE...]
The prayerbook of Catherine of Cleves is one of the most beautiful — perhaps the most beautiful — I have ever studied. Now all the major illuminations and the facing pages are available online, thanks to the Morgan Library. This is a fantastic opportunity to examine it.
Also included is a decent amount of scholarly commentary and introduction (via the “About this manuscript” and “About this page” links), although I wouldn’t object to much more.
The mutual [MORE...]