On 1 March, the Diocese of Rome, clarified that the Easter Triduum, and especially the Easter Vigil, are to be celebrated in parishes; Not in
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An Altar by any Other Name
Multivalent liturgy requires multivalent art and architecture.
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The Myth of Noble Simplicity
Liturgical clarity does not mean artistic simplicity.
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A Church of Color
The goal is not to decorate, but to invest sacred places once again with the significance of color.
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Good taste, bad taste, no taste: Liturgical Art and Architecture in a time of cultural exhaustion.
Rather than listen to specialists, we have mob-opinion and crowdsourced culture.
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Ad sanctos – Believing in the Saints Again
In the West we have done a poor job understanding and teaching the Communion of Saints.
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Church of the Holy Sepulcher closed until further notice
“This reminds us all of the laws of a similar nature which were enacted against the Jews during dark periods in Europe”
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The Spiritual Lives of Our Young. Kyrie Eleison.
Perhaps we need to be emboldened to call “B.S.” like the Parkland students on our shallow religiosity.
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The Spiritual Imagination: Why what we do with our buildings matters. And what to do about it.
We are called to be active conservators of the markers of encounters with the divine.
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Icons: An Advent Reality
Icons are not aesthetic objects at which we look but modalities of incarnation by which we encounter the divine.
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