The new hymnal launches on December 13, 2020.
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Author: Audrey Seah
Audrey Seah is a Ph.D. candidate in Theology with a concentration in Liturgical Studies and a minor in World Religions, World Church at the University of Notre Dame. She's also an alumna of Saint John's, Collegeville and Fresno State. Her research interests include global worship, sacramental access for people with disabilities, and liturgy's relationship with culture, politics, and human rights. Her dissertation examines how narratives around deafness are expressed and formed in Deaf Catholic worship and its implications for theologies of liturgical inculturation.
Racism and African American Liturgies – A Resource
In parishes, racial justice is often left to social justice ministries, but this should not be the case.
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Autism and Liturgical Participation
April is Autism Awareness month. Here, I interview Fr. Matthew Schneider, LC, an autistic priest, about autism, prayer and the liturgy.
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Mass Online with Full, Conscious, and Active Participation?
My experience made me realize that I had watched Masses many times online before as a spectator rather than a participant. Because I had access to Mass in person, TV and online masses felt optional, something “extra,” so I never had the urge to participate fully, consciously, and actively until now.
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Deaf Access to the Sacrament of Reconciliation: Past and Present
Reconciliation has historically been one of the most difficult sacraments for Deaf and hard-of-hearing Catholics to access and continues to be so.
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Liturgical Expressions on the Hill
It’s been quite a week for those interested in the relationship between liturgy and the public life in Washington DC. The Department of State hosted
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Catholics Celebrate the Lunar New Year
For Catholics in Asia, the Lunar New Year is celebrated almost as if it were a Feast day.
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Racism and the Liturgy: Q&A with a Sociologist
Any marginalization and discrimination present in the Church would be seen in liturgy – these things don’t happen in a vacuum.
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Involuntary Immigration, Feast Days, Devotions, Prayer and Poetry
For many of us, today is Halloween, all hallows eve, the Vigil of All Saints, the last day of October, Mary’s month, month of the Rosary, month of the Queen of all saints.
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Pedro Arrupe on Inculturation
On the feast of Pentecost in 1978, he wrote a letter to all members of the Society of Jesus about inculturation which contains a definition of inculturation that almost every contemporary work on liturgical inculturation employ or at least makes mention of.
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