“If I sang, I’d sound like a donkey, because I don’t know how to sing.”
Read moreMonth: December 2015
Kandra: “Hark! The Hymn Has Been Re-Written!”
Deacon Kendra: “It appears these and similar revisions have been implemented for one reason: someone presumes that intelligent Christians are too stupid to know that the word ‘man’ doesn’t always mean a human being with testicles.”
Read moreGloria in Excelsis Deo!
Here, folks, is Gloria in Excel sheets: And it gets better. Tomorrow it will be Gloria in Excel sheets day-old. awr
Read moreChristmas Music from the Abbey
Liturgy and music nerds can start making plans for next year – it is never too early.
Read moreMerry Christmas! A liturgical logic puzzle as a gift from me to you
I made this puzzle on a whim to stump my son (so far, it’s working). Use the clues to solve this logic puzzle. No cheating by using information you just happen to know! (There is a downloadable version you can open with a word processor and edit at the bottom.)
There are five churches right in a row from East to West on a little street in Maintown, USA…
Read moreIt’s Time We Were Moving
During these days of Christmas, there will be families living in rough dwellings, tents and make-do shacks, as we share our family Christmas in the warmth of our comfortable homes.
Read moreDecember 23: “No” and “Yes”
I wonder whether Elizabeth and Mary together don’t point us to a deep truth: namely, that fully saying “yes” to something – especially God’s own vision for this world — always also has to include decisive “nos.”
Read moreViewpoint: The Story of Christmas
Christmas is about Christ coming to us, and our coming to Christ—and most of all about our going out to each other. Most of all, Christmas promises us an imperishable inheritance from Christ who came once in Bethlehem will come again in glory.
Read moreGift Idea from St. John’s Abbey: Gregorian Chant CD
Selections from the Graduale Romanum and Graduale Simplex for Mass, and the Antiphonale Monasticum and Liber Hymnarius for the Divine Office, that honor Our Lady and her divine Son.
Read moreFaith’s Archivists
There can be few places more different from Timbuktu – geographically, culturally or spiritually – than Collegeville, Minnesota.
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