How do images of the saints bear witness to the paschal mystery?
Read moreMonth: December 2014
December 22: O Rex Gentium
Come and bring heaven to earth, to that earth from which you formed humanity.
Read moreA Homely Reminder of How Rote Ritual Is
So much of the analysis of liturgy remains focused on the words in the books or even the words recited or repeated in assemblies, and this with an uncritical, unarticulated assumption that the discursive content of those texts impact/shape the ideas or imaginations of most of the participants. The individual performances and ongoing practices of a rite/ritual/liturgy are so much more and most often a matter of non-discursive, semiotic (if you will) patterns …
Read more“No More Boring Homilies!” – New Vatican Document on Preaching
Let’s hope the document isn’t a boring one either.
Read moreDecember 21: O Oriens
You are the brilliant promise of light. Your justice is luminous and clear. Come and dawn on us.
Read moreTilman Riemenschneider of the Day: Blood Altar
Very unusually, the central figure of this composition is Judas.
Read moreDecember 20: O Clavis David
Come and unlock our prison doors, dissolve the shadows of death in the light of your presence.
Read moreWhat Time is Midnight Mass?
Now, “Midnight Mass” is for the most part just one more piece of Catholic lore that has bitten the dust. The holdouts are getting to be few and far between.
Read moreDecember 19: O Radix Jesse
Come, life-giver, free us to flourish, come now.
Read moreNon solum: The Te Deum
A discussion on the Te Deum as we approach Christmas might be interesting for Pray Tell.
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