Creeping clericalism which transforms the Eucharist into an almost magical phenomenon.
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Category: 2_ARS CELEBRANDI
Take and Eat
If we truly believe that the Eucharist is the source and summit, and our spiritual food for the work of discipleship, then we should not be putting obstacles in the way of people receiving it.
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One Flock, Walking Together
“When I join a communion procession, do I engage in this action as though I were a customer in line at a supermarket or an amusement park?”
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When Will We Drink This Cup?
We are now well over two years into the COVID-19 pandemic and to a certain degree the crisis seems to be behind us. While we
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September 1: Praying “In the Great Cathedral of Creation”
Rather, it is we – the human voices in this cosmic choir – who need to be reminded that we do not sing alone in praise of God.
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Ars Praedicandi: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
The turnstile in the gospels is not a thing: it is a person. Jesus is the true narrow gate through which we must pass.
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Help, there’s a Monstrance in my Mass
Celebration of the Eucharist. Devotion to the Eucharist. Which is better? What were we doing right now?!?
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New hymn: Never Silent in Your Praises
Commissioned for the blessing of the expanded Saint John’s Abbey pipe organ.
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Ars Praedicandi: 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
Like a nurturing parent, today’s readings invite us to encounter a Jesus who spiritually loans us his divinely mature soul, his faith, his self-lessness, and his vision of God’s reign, so that we can change our much less plastic hearts and change our patterns of living, spiritually evolving from instantiated even lethargic observers of faith into committed disciples forged in the image of Christ missioned to be agents of change.
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Can we sing just anything at Mass?
Some have seemed to question if what we sing needs to tie in with the scriptures of the day at all.
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Ars Praedicandi: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
We do not pray that we be delivered from the natural emotions that punctuate our living fully, but that we might employ them to spur us into gospel living and develop holy anxiety for the good things.
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