Tweaking the age of Confirmation is not going to solve our issues around disaffiliation.
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Author: Tim Gabrielli
Timothy R. Gabrielli is assistant professor of theology at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA. He earned a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Dayton and is author of *Confirmation: How a Sacrament of God's Grace Became All about Us* (Liturgical Press, 2013). His next book, forthcoming from Liturgical Press, is on the twentieth century history of the theology of the mystical body of Christ.
Doubt and Bodies
If religion, or faith, is only about belief, then when belief wavers or struggles, one simply no longer has it. In this view, faith isn’t in your bones, it’s merely in your thoughts about the world, or in your morals.
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The Liturgical-Devotional Shape of Teaching Classical Christology to Undergraduates
It’s not more God and less humans or less God and more humans that makes liturgy efficacious
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Celebrating the Mass
How do we best welcome and energize people about our Catholic identity and mission without scaring them or watering the whole thing down?
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Book Review: The Wedding Feast of the Lamb
“Nothing is more destructive for the meaning of the liturgy than the mode of bracketing it off, or abstracting it from time–making it belong to no time and certainly not to the continuous present of our ordinary daily lives.”
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Pope Francis on Liturgical Silence
I wonder if this is one of the places of common ground to be sought among liturgical advocates of various stripes and those who are less connected to the liturgical life of the Church.
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Liturgy for the Unaffiliated
An interesting interplay of folksy rock and electronica, The Liturgists’ stuff is not another version of the “Jesus Is My Boyfriend” track that characterizes some versions of praise and worship or contemporary Christian pop.
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Diversity in Parishes
How do we deeply inculturate the liturgy–an essential task of catholicity–while continuing the task of breaking down barriers and walls, of encountering those who are different?
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Émile Mersch and the Liturgical Quality of the Mystical Body
How can it be vague and yet so important?
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Fashion and Vestments
When we lean too far toward the unavoidable reality of liturgical material expressivism—that vestments, drapes, etc. represent someone’s preferences—we can lose the larger theological reality that 1) they shape us and 2) they direct us outside of ourselves.
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