What happens when women are involved with liturgy? According to a 2015 article, when females are involved with liturgy, we get bad liturgy.
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Category: Children
Fairies and St. Michael
Last week, the world celebrated the 80th anniversary of the publication of a small, little book, whose trilogian successors C. S. Lewis said were ” like lightning from a clear sky; as sharply different, as unpredictable in our age as Songs of Innocence were in theirs.”
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The Church: A Bit Chaotic at Times
By now, thousands of infants have made their debut as church criers at this baptismal font.
Read moreBaby-Hymn-Singing
Infants accustomed to such singing are much quieter at their baptism – they already know the sound of singing voices and the pipe organ in the church space. As the babies become little children, during liturgies they want to run closer to the organ.
Read moreFirst Communion: Questions from an Eastern Christian
an you imagine your Church celebrating the communion of infants who have been fully initiated into the Church?
Read moreThe Lord often reveals to the younger what is best
I have this set of juice glasses in my house. I have been putting them away in the cabinet a few times a week for three years.
I have a 10 year old boy in my house, too…
Read moreViewpoint: By the Age of Ten, Young Catholics Are Losing Their Faith
by Msgr. M. Francis Mannion Two national studies produced by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), based at Georgetown University, finds that young
Read moreChanting the texts of the liturgy, from Tim O’Malley at Church Life
Tim O’Malley has a fascinating opinion piece over at Church Life today. He’s in favor of chant, not instead of hymnody, but instead of reading.
Read moreFeast of St Hildegard of Bingen
Thanks to the Liturgical Press’s recent release of Robert Ellsberg’s Blessed Among Us, I have another choice to read aloud for these family celebrations. Today’s reflection on Hildegard is beautiful: “Within the cosmos, [Hildegard] wrote, human beings are the thinking heart, called to be cocreators with God in shaping the world. Both the cosmos and human beings, though estranged from God by sin, may through Christ find their way back to God’s original blessing” (Ellsberg, Sept 17, p. 536). The facing page is on Adrienne von Speyr – a lovely juxtaposition!
Read moreOut of the mouths of babes
My point here is that I originally considered the children’s questions about prison food to be a distraction from the “important” points of the class. In fact, however, their questions had deeper implications that I did not recognize.
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