“Over time, individuals and communities learn to taste and appreciate the native sobriety of the Latin hymns”
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Author: Fritz Bauerschmidt
I am a professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland and a permanent deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, assigned to the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen.
Ars Praedicandi: St. Oscar Romero, pray for us.
This Sunday’s canonization of Oscar Romero provided a lens through which to view the radical call to discipleship that Jesus issues to the rich man—and to all of us—in today’s Gospel.
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Ars Praedicandi: Preaching Abuse
“We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.”
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Wrestling with Words: Inclusive Language and the Difficulties of Prayer
We should always seek more adequate language about God, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that by doing so we can free ourselves from having to wrestle with the words in all their gendered, historical, concrete specificity.
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Celebrating the 4th: a tale of two propers
The propers appointed for Independence Day in the United States give us two distinct approaches to celebrating July 4.
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Liturgy in Southbridge, MA: an audio time-capsule of post-conciliar transition
Recordings of liturgies at Sacred Heart Church in Southbridge, MA, ranging from 1966-1969, provide a fascinating glimpse of liturgical change in one parish.
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Rituals for Secular People
The Atlantic has a piece that discusses the “Ritual Design Lab” in Silicon valley that will design rituals for births, deaths, and everything in between.
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Ars Praedicandi: Trying to Say Everything
Maybe it is possible to say everything without saying all that much.
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The Awareness Heuristic: School Shootings and Flying Monstrances
Flying monstrances are a threat to the faith. But so is bad preaching, amateurish music, poor proclamation of the scriptures, bored celebrants, inattention to symbols, childish catechesis, and so forth.
Read moreThe Danger of Immersion Fonts
I’m just saying: this wouldn’t happen with a birdbath-style font.
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