For many, the ambiguity of shadow is perhaps an important symbol, a pointing to our partial vision of the economy of God and a faithful participation of life between realities.
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Author: Lizette Larson
Is it time for chrism masses already? Revisiting the cultures of chrism
How the language of timing the liturgy and the composition of chrism takes on theologies of inculturation and christology.
Read moreRemembering, Societas Liturgica Style
Along with two hundred other liturgists from around the church catholic and the globe, I was part of the Congress of Societas Liturgica (5-10 August
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Singing Our Songs of Joy and Lament
In his blog on this site last week (6 July), Michael Joncas gave a wonderful overview of the Irish Church Music Association gathered in Maynooth,
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Reconciling Differences: The importance of symbolic actions
In a moment, an ancient gesture became the bearer of new meanings – the temporal expansion of symbol pointing beyond itself to new interpretations of understanding.
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Palms and Crosses, Victory and Passion: The Tensions of Palm Sunday
It began innocently enough, the Archdeacon responsible for the parish where I am serving at the moment asked why Anglicans fold their Palm Sunday palm
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Something Old, Something New: The Use of Sarum
What can a late medieval inculturation of the Roman Rite offer us today? Plenty! The Sarum Use is a rich collection of music and ritual that particularly reminds us of the importance of moving – processions and stations marking our journey as a pilgrim church into the heart of God.
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Liturgical Formation and Global Agreement IALC 2019
Fewer and fewer ordination candidates are going to major seminaries in the Anglican tradition
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Liturgical Formation in the Body of Christ: a Canadian Experiment
What are your new ways of rekindling the desire for God within Christian communities?
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The bizarre effects of Christmas bazaars
The rejection of a “mini” Lent theology of Advent (almost always without any sense of the history of the season) is growing alongside the tsunami of the retail Christmas.
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