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.
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Let us not forget that children are natural mystics. Developmentally, children experience a profound sense of identity in and through ritual.
If you’re in the area,
Aug 29
some of these presentations might interest you. I see that one is about the new Missal translation.
Christian Smith and Melinda Denton, investigators for the National Study of Youth and Religion, see an alternative faith in American teenagers, one that “feeds on and gradually co-opts if not devours” established religious traditions: Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.
Archbishop Augustine Di Noia, OP, Secretary of the Holy See’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, has some highly interesting comments on young Catholics in today’s culture.
An annual highlight of the National Catholic Youth Choir is Candlelight Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in the Abbey Church to conclude the observance of Sunday, the Lord’s Day.
My daughter Juliana is now 15 months old. She is now learning about one word a day, and is totally thrilled by the ability to communicate and be understood. Much of her language acquisition is — dare I say it — doxological…
Editor’s note: as a regular summer series, each Wednesday we’ll post what one of our contributors is reading these days.
I have a hard time limiting my reading to one book at a time, which makes this kind of post hard to steer. Do I name the thing on my endtable that I’ve been browsing at bedtime since March? The book I read two chapters of before interrupting it to read one of my textbooks for [MORE...]
My son is named after St. Thomas Aquinas. We had expected his baptismal name to get abbreviated in short order to “Tom” or “Tommy” like most other American Thomases, but it never happened. One thing he shares with his namesake is an aptitude for asking the right questions. He asks, you answer, he changes the subject, and you wonder if he’s understood — until, days, weeks, or months later, he says “Remember when you said…?” [MORE...]
I downloaded the 4 new Eucharistic Prayers into Word documents. Word provides the Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaide Grade Level, which measures the complexity of the sentence strucure and the difficulty of the vocabulary. The result was…