“Allen asks the reader to consider the worship they participate in both in practice and its history to consider how it might be shaped and informed by these new commitments.”
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Category: Black Catholic Liturgy
Is there Rosary in the house?
Stores were shuttered, neighbors inaccessible, not a Rosary to be found.
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Meet Father Rivers: New Podcast Release Coinciding with Black History Month
Meet Father Rivers explores the life and impact of Fr. Clarence Rivers – a Black priest whose compositions and work in liturgy had a deep and lasting impact on North American Catholic worship.
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King Jesus Is a-Listenin’
Time and space are hallmarks in African American worship. The people gather to receive the Word and Sacrament. Movement from Khronos time (human time) to Kyros time (God time) occurs.
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“Hold On” Black Catholic Congregational Song
Black Catholics come from a lived theology where the music functions as a geographic teleportation. The song transports the singer to a new reality while singing the song.
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In That Great Getting Up Morning
Ultimately resistance is eschatology for enslaved Africans and their descendants.
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