The most profound revelation of all – a God who is indeed hidden, hidden amidst the most mundane and familiar around us.
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Category: Devotions and Sacramentals
Are there things we ought not bless?
I was struck by an articleat Catholic News Agency that reported how the Russian Orthodox Church is considering ending their practice of blessing large weapons including
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Saints Alive: The Tensions in Sanctoral Cycle Reforms
What makes a saint – is it nice thoughts, acts of social justice, successful church plants, miracles wrought after death?
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Stations of the Cross: The Story
Sometimes there were 20, 30, or even more stations.
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Advent Is Too Short a Time to Sing All the Songs I Want to Sing
Advent hymns can provide a countervailing inner melody, giving voice to the season’s hope and longing.
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Blessings Animals — and Burying Them, Too?
Will there ever be a Christian form of burial for our beloved animals?
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My Two Offices
I still struggle to identify which aspects of this worship schedule is most ascetical for me: the way it pulls me from my real office or the way my sinfulness is exposed as the Office prays me.
Read moreWreath of Christ
The small circlet of beads, worn on the wrist or carried in a pocket, becomes a memento of the sacred mysteries of life which he or she has considered in a personal and prayerful way.
Read morePilgrimage Liturgies and Popular Piety
Pilgrimage is a vital expression of popular piety. The premier French institute of higher study of liturgy just held a conference exploring this phenomenon of pilgrimage – as experience, as theology, as liturgy. Here is a report of what they discussed.
Read moreLiturgy Lines: “Liturgy – Praying Together”
Like love and marriage in the old musical, you can’t have one without the other.
Read moreLiturgy Lines: “The Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy Draws to a Close”
What might parishes do around this time to mark the end of the Year of Jubilee?
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