“Fr. Virgil’s contribution was not as an economist, not as a union organizer, not as someone who ran a hospitality house or a farm cooperative. Rather, his calling was to deepen the spiritual basis of all of these things, through the Liturgy.”
Archive for category Social Justice
Rita Ferrone on “Liturgy and Social Justice: Fresh Challenges for Today in Virgil Michel’s Legacy”
Apr 16
“[There are] deeply personal transformation entailed when we alter our plans because of a call to re-order our priorities in life.” – Dr. Daniel Finn
Garbage in, Bach out
Dec 10
The town of Cateura, Paraguay was literally built on top of a landfill – a landfill that receives over 1,500 tons of waste each day.
by Barry Hudock
“Virgil Michel OSB insisted that it’s the liturgy that forms in us the qualities we need to recognize what a just society would look like and to live and work in a way that makes our society more just.”
Um. . . what’s a fanon, you say?
August 26, 2013, is Women’s Equality Day. Will homilists employ this fact in preaching on Ephesians 5:21–33 in the context of Joshua 24 and John 6:60–69? Send to Kindle:
By Fr. Ronald Raab, CSC
“Many people have disappeared from our community since the new translation began. [But] our community of urban poverty realizes that the real translation of the Mass comes when the Mass is over. ‘Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.’ This is the mission of the Eucharist, the translation that we will continue to pray and witness here in our parish for years to come.”
I would love for someone to reflect on liturgy as political ideology
A growing number of mainline Protestants now worship much like Catholics.
“I realize that there is no accounting for taste, and that beauty is a fairly subjective topic. However, I believe that Gregorian Chant is the among the most beautiful music in the world…It may never become your favorite music, but it is unlikely you will be oblivious to its beauty.” — Adam Wood