Rita Ferrone, Author at PrayTellBlog

Rita Ferrone is an award-winning writer and frequent speaker on issues of liturgy and church renewal in the Roman Catholic tradition. She is currently a contributing writer and columnist for Commonweal magazine and an independent scholar. She is the former editor of The Yale ISM Review, an ecumenical journal of worship and the arts for the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

A document on liturgical formation is being prepared in Rome

May 13, 2022 Rita Ferrone CDW / Holy See Vatican II

In a wide-ranging interview on May 9, in the Spanish magazine Omnes, Archbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship, revealed that a document

Are You Living in the Light of the Word?

April 25, 2022 Rita Ferrone Conferences / Workshops / Meetings Homiletics

“Enlivening the Scriptural Imagination for Preaching” is the theme of a summer conference at the University of Notre Dame.

Brief Book Review: From Easter to Holy Week

April 13, 2022 Rita Ferrone Brief Book Review Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy Liturgical Movement

“The story Moore tells is one of definite, even triumphant, progress in the direction of recovery of the full liturgical richness of Holy Week.”

There Are Good Reasons to Support the RCIA – A response to an essay at NCR

March 22, 2022 Rita Ferrone Initiation / RCIA Pope Francis Vatican II

The Church today asks us to conduct ourselves in a particular way in Christian initiation because the way we initiate is a fundamental expression of who we are.

Psalm 31, in solidarity with Ukraine [updated]

February 26, 2022 Rita Ferrone

“Be strong and take heart, all who hope in the LORD.”

Instituted Ministries Celebrated Today: A First for Women

January 23, 2022 Rita Ferrone Church Reform Pope Francis

Today Pope Francis celebrated the institution of lectors; for the first time, women were among them. He also celebrated the institution of catechists.

Book Review: Community as Church, Church as Community

January 17, 2022 Rita Ferrone Good Read Recently Published Books

“A church is often one of the few places where we experience the gathering and sustaining of community…Community is not easily found anymore in our landscapes.”