Advent hymns can provide a countervailing inner melody, giving voice to the season’s hope and longing.
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Advent hymns can provide a countervailing inner melody, giving voice to the season’s hope and longing.
Read moreWill there ever be a Christian form of burial for our beloved animals?
Read moreI 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 moreThe 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 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 moreLike love and marriage in the old musical, you can’t have one without the other.
Read moreWhat might parishes do around this time to mark the end of the Year of Jubilee?
Read moreI wondered what experiences others were having with the opened Holy Doors.
Read moreI wonder what experiences people are having with the opened Holy Doors during this extraordinary Jubilee Year? The website of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops describes these doors as “one of the central components of the Jubilee of Mercy.”
Read moreI propose that every Catholic set some time aside and draw up a list of commitments to be carried out during the Holy Year based of the spiritual and corporal works of mercy.
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