Tag: The Deacon’s Bench
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Inculturation viewed from the other side
Worries about inculturation are often couched in terms of compromising the integrity of the Gospel. A recent case in India raises a correlative issue about compromising the integrity of other religions.
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Two Popes, Two Palm Sundays
The Deacon’s Bench notes “an interesting study in contrasts”:
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Marquette: Pastoral Letter on Permanent Diaconate
The deacon is called to care in a special way for the modern day “widows and orphans.” This would include, but is not limited to, ministry to the poor, the hungry, the homeless, the imprisoned, the sick, the lonely and the abandoned. The deacon is called in a very special and particular way to be…
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Priest celebrates Mass with iPad
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Ministers or Mysteries?
Has the forthcoming translation of the Exultet transformed divine mysteries into angel ministers?
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At the limits of the absurd
This video, advertising a new hygienic way of distributing communion, raises for me the question of whether the principle of ex opere operato extends to sacraments celebrated in so absurd a way as to be laughable.