Preparing ministers to assist in the distribution of ashes is a spiritual opportunity as well as a practical one.
Read moreAuthor: Rita Ferrone
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.
Gathering the Scattered
There are multiple approaches to the question of what it means to be Catholic, and also to the question of under what circumstances one ceases to be Catholic, and finally, what all of this means vis à vis the strong claims of the Catholic tradition regarding sacramental practice.
Read moreTruth-Telling
This is a response to Anscar Chupungco’s talk, “Liturgical Studies and Liturgical Renewal.” The greatest growth—astounding growth, in fact—in the post-Vatican II church has been in Asia and Africa. Would this have happened had these regions not enjoyed the benefit a liturgy that was indeed clear, understandable, and expressed in the language and idioms of their own cultures?
Read moreDoors
Full use of our ritual repertoire requires us to value our entire worship space.
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