Tweaking the age of Confirmation is not going to solve our issues around disaffiliation.
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Tweaking the age of Confirmation is not going to solve our issues around disaffiliation.
Read moreIf 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.
Read moreIt’s not more God and less humans or less God and more humans that makes liturgy efficacious
Read moreHow do we best welcome and energize people about our Catholic identity and mission without scaring them or watering the whole thing down?
Read more“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.”
Read moreI 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.
Read moreAn 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.
Read moreHow 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?
Read moreHow can it be vague and yet so important?
Read moreWhen 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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