Does this rite assume that all births will be to healthy children? Does the birth of a child that is not healthy signify some flaw in our “rebirth one day”?
Peter Maurin was born in the ancient Languedoc region of southern France. One of twenty-three children in his peasant family, he was educated by the Christian Brothers and breathed in the atmosphere of Catholic populism before emigrating to North America in 1909. For twenty years he tramped through America, performing various kinds of manual labor. All the while he was devising an intellectual synthesis in the area of Catholic social philosophy.
Read Chapter 1 of Thomas Rausch, SJ’s new book Eschatology, Liturgy, and Christology: Toward Recovering an Eschatological Imagination.
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“Too many bishops seem in the grip of dark suspicions that our culture is moving at breakneck speed toward a demonic end. Pope John XXIII, by contrast, was more optimistic about the signs of the times.” – E.J. Dionne
CCMLA: June 18-21
May 12
Fifty years after the opening of the Second Vatican Council in 1962 and in our first year implementing the new English missal, the Collegeville Conference on Music, Liturgy and the Arts looks at cultural diversity (how do we include ‘the other’?), generational diversity (where are the youth?), liturgical diversity (are we going backward or forward?), and diversity in architectural and musical styles. How is the Holy Spirit holding “the many” of us together?
Then Sing to the Lord: Music in Divine Worship came along and said you can’t sing the Gloria during the sprinkling.
The confirmation slap
May 11
Thing were omitted for a reason, and that should be respected.
RIP Gloria Weyman
May 10
Gloria Weyman, longtime advocate of music, dance, and the visual arts for liturgical prayer, went to dance for her Lord on Wednesday, May 9, 2012, at 85 years of age.
Saint Hildegard
May 10
…is now on the calendar of the universal church
If you are anywhere near London, do try to get to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Written on the Heart before it closes on 19 May. The play is about the translation of the King James Bible. In a word, it is splendid, one of the best plays I have seen in years.