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Archive for category Sacramental Theology
Symbolic loss
Aug 5
The National Catholic Register has interviewed Bishop Aquila to shed some light on the topic of “restored order” for the sacraments of initiation.
Clearly it was a parish where some thought had been put into the liturgy and how to make it more “traditional.” The question is, have they been thinking about the right things?
With all that baptism promises, why wouldn’t one want it to be a party?
Robert Nugent argues that for teens to appreciate the value of sacramental confession, we need to clearly ritualize its connection to the larger community and engage their sense of sin as injuring relationships, rather that disobeying individual (often half-understood) laws.
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The Dove’s Kinswoman
Apr 25
by Jim McKay
“The Chrism Mass is celebrated two days before Easter, which parallels the anointing two days before the Passover. In the morning the bishop could preach to his priests about the anointing of Jesus, and in the evening those priests preach to their people about Jesus copying the position of the woman to wash his disciples’ feet.”
The Chrism Mass
Apr 19
The way the Chrism Mass is celebrated in some dioceses distorts its ecclesiology. Even though the entrance antiphon refers to all of the baptized as priests (“Jesus Christ has made us a kingdom of priests to serve his God and Father: glory and kingship be his for ever and ever. Amen.” [Rev. 1:6]—also the second reading of the Mass), the procession is often made up of clergy only.
by Michael O’Malley, Religion News Service, in USA Today.