Tim Gabrielli’s 2013 enlightened study on the issues facing adolescent celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation, Confirmation, has the very fitting subtitle, “How a Sacrament
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Category: 2_ARS CELEBRANDI
How To Preach
Have a point. Don’t be dull. Use evocative language. Be yourself.
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INTROITUS: 2nd Sunday of Lent
Tibi dixit cor meum, quaesivi vultum tuum – My heart says to you: I want to seek your face.
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GOSPEL COMMUNION: First Sunday of Lent
Commentary on the Psallite communion antiphon – an inspiring reflection on the liturgy of the coming Sunday.
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Penitential Liturgy
I watched it with interest, both because of the unusual nature of the gathering, and because I wondered what it might tell us about penitential celebrations generally.
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Keep it simple this Triduum
Part IV in Diana Macalintal’s series on preparing for Triduum
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Monday Morning Confessions
Even with as many ministerial miles as I have in the rear-view mirror, there’s still much progress to be made.
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GOSPEL COMMUNION: Ash Wednesday
Commentary on the Psallite communion antiphon – an inspiring reflection on the liturgy of the coming Sunday.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily on the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
In these times of such eye-beam blindness and social myopia of Civic dismay and maybe even ecclesial despair we await again the outpouring of God’s saving Spirit at this Eucharist
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AMEN CORNER: Apprenticing Ourselves to the Antiphonal
“I think that there is much to be learned from “apprenticing ourselves” to the Antiphonal, letting it surprise us, stretch us, and even discomfort us.”
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Moving the Penitential Act
For at least 50 years liturgists have been discussing whether the Penitential Act in the Order of Mass ought to be repositioned.
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