Other Voices, Author at PrayTellBlog

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Brief Book Review: The Art of Gathering

“The author’s commentary can open up the reader’s thinking about ways in which we’ve made this holy meal into something mundane and meaningless by obsessing over efficiency, hygiene, or narrow theological thinking.”

Brief Book Review: Rethinking Catholic Devotions

October 26, 2022 Other Voices Brief Book Review Initiation / RCIA Popular Piety Recently Published Books

“The author offers the beginning reader a helpful vision for situating Catholic devotional practice in the Christian life, without falling into superstition and problematic practices that eclipse the redemptive power of the paschal mystery.”

Amen Corner: The Fijian Meal Tradition

October 24, 2022 Other Voices Amen Corner Eucharist Inculturation Pope Francis Presiding Sacramental Theology Teaching Liturgy

Could aspects of Fijian cultural meals be incorporated into the church’s eucharistic tradition?

From the Wires: Does the Reformed Mass betray Vatican II?

October 19, 2022 Other Voices Vatican II

Retracing old ground is painstaking and often frustrating to do when only one side of the story is easily available on the internet. I have learned this the hard way. Thankfully, more and more Catholics who accept the conciliar reforms are taking notice of the dominance of traditionalist narratives on the web and are beginning to respond.

Brief Book Review: Holy Communion in Contagious Times

October 19, 2022 Other Voices Brief Book Review Recently Published Books Technology and Worship

“What we have learned and experienced during the COVID pandemic has influenced and will continue to influence how we worship, even when the doors are open and all health restrictions have been withdrawn.”

Brief Book Review: New Church, New Altar

October 12, 2022 Other Voices Art and Architecture Brief Book Review Do It Rite Recently Published Books Translation / New Missal

“A thoroughly documented historical and liturgical commentary and a most helpful pastoral guide to the celebration of this ritual for the dedication of a church and an altar.”

Brief Book Review: A Womanist Theology of Worship

October 5, 2022 Other Voices Black Catholic Liturgy Brief Book Review Ecumenism Inculturation Recently Published Books

“Allen asks the reader to consider the worship they participate in both in practice and its history to consider how it might be shaped and informed by these new commitments.”

Book Review: Losing Church

September 28, 2022 Other Voices Brief Book Review Pastoral Theology Protestant Worship Recently Published Books Technology and Worship

“A perceptive and personal account of what has happened in the country and in the church as well as in our families and circles of friends in the past two years.”