In the West we have done a poor job understanding and teaching the Communion of Saints.
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Author: James Hadley, OblSB
James Hadley is a priest in the Church of England currently serving in the Diocese of St. Albans. He previously taught Liturgical Art and Architecture, as well as church design, at the Catholic University of America, Rome Campus. He lectured in Faith and Culture for the Rome summer program of the Australian Catholic University. He has studied in the faculty of Beni Culturali at the Pontifical Gregorian University, as well as, the Pontifical Academy of Christian Archeology, and the Vatican Museums. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from St Patrick’s College, Maynooth, and a License in Liturgical Studies and Sacramental Theology from the Catholic University of America. His articles have appeared in Anaphora, Studia Liturgica, Ecclesia Orans, and Material Culture Review. In addition to his parish ministry he works as a liturgical artist and designer.
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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Liturgical stage fright – On stopping platform worship
Liturgy must be spatially activated so that it takes place among the assembly, not simply before their eyes.
Read moreEVANGELII GAUDIUM: Pump’n up the volume – A Coldplay Mass?
The Jesuit university, Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, is making waves for organizing a university Mass in which the music will be provided by the secular and
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Faith & Form at 50
Sacred art today cannot be devotionalism, much less handicraft, to be taken seriously. Art must serve as a provocation of the human experience of the divine.
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Death by numbers…or, by liturgy?
These past few months have seen a abundance of dire prognostications regarding Christianity in the West, specifically regarding the Church of England, Episcopal Church, and Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.
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