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.

More Important Than It Looks

What was your experience the Sunday of the Word of God like? Does it make you confident that this observance will take hold? What are your hopes for next year’s celebration?

The Yale ISM Review: On Healing

January 6, 2020 Rita Ferrone Art and Architecture Environment and Ecology Journals Music: General Music: Hymns Pastoral Theology Persons with Disabilities Popular Piety Protestant Worship Social Justice

What is healing about? How does it take place? What roles do prayer, liturgy, and the arts play in the process of healing? These are some of the questions raised and discussed in this issue.

U.S. Bishops Prepare to Vote on New Translation of the RCIA

November 11, 2019 Rita Ferrone BCDW / USCCB Initiation / RCIA Translation / New Missal

With respect to the Christian Initiation of Adults, we are seeing an approach to translation of liturgical texts that is strikingly different from the path taken in the translation of the Missal.

Silence in Music

October 2, 2019 Rita Ferrone Music: General

I think sometimes we sin against the artful use of silence in liturgy — in music and in the ritual itself.

Prayers of Intercession for the Season of Creation

September 3, 2019 Rita Ferrone Environment and Ecology Inculturation Pope Francis

“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last 200 years.” How, therefore, shall we pray?

Season of Creation: What Are You Doing to Celebrate? [updated]

August 31, 2019 Rita Ferrone Ecumenism Environment and Ecology Liturgical year

Our communities may awaken to a deeper appreciation of the gift of creation and the call to care for our common home, precisely by “praying our way” into this awareness.

The Eucharist Commits Us to the Poor

June 23, 2019 Rita Ferrone Ars Praedicandi Eucharist Homilies Liturgy and Virtues

All these hungry people, and the disciples don’t think they’ve got the wherewithal to help. But, guess what? They have.

John Cook, rest in peace

May 3, 2019 Rita Ferrone Announcements Art and Architecture

The Yale Institute of Sacred Music has announced the death of John Cook (1933-2019), former director of the institute and emeritus professor at the Yale