What is most intriguing for me, as I listened to pastors and lay people tell their story, was the unique way in which these instances of communal prayer were not only rooted in the classic structure of the daily office but at the same time were radically open to receiving and integrating the cry from the street, the cry, the desire, the aspiration of many both believers and non-believers.
Archive for category Liturgy of the Hours
Communal Prayer
Oct 29
Guardini Letter
Oct 7
While members of the FDLC have been gathered here in Alexandria we’ve used a letter from Romano Guardini.
DivineOffice.Org
Jul 30
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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
Longing for Liturgy?
Feb 7
I began to wonder — in the face of Thomas More’s deep desire to join others in worship again – about our own longings when it comes to liturgy. I will be the first to admit that “longing for liturgy” is not what motivates me on any given Sunday morning.
A Sportive Spirituality?
Feb 4
A “sportive” spirituality is rooted in prayer. It is rooted in daily prayer. Prayer – individual or communal – is one of the ways that we “practice” our baptism (see Luther’s writing on baptism in the Large Catechism, The Book of Concord, page 461).
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”.
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.