David Stosur reviews Joseph A. Bracken’s Church as Dynamic Life-System
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Category: Environment and Ecology
Just Like the Early Church? The Relevance of Place in a Time of Isolation
Our sacramental buildings are the last bastion holding out against the disenchantment and trashing of place.
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The words and Word of God that Create and Renew: A Reflection for the Beginning of Lent
Words carry meaning. They communicate our thoughts and feelings, tell others about who we are and our relationship with them. The can be used to
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Liturgy and the οἰκουμένη
Are we promoting the recapitulation of all things in Christ?
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The Yale ISM Review: On Healing
What is healing about? How does it take place? What roles do prayer, liturgy, and the arts play in the process of healing? These are some of the questions raised and discussed in this issue.
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On Living with a “Green” Memento Mori
How do we confront our own finitude?
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The End of Frankincense?
N.B. this is a post about incense and not a Halloween-themed post on Frankenstein! During the 2017 Societas Liturgica conference in I was very impressed by the
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Is it time for chrism masses already? Revisiting the cultures of chrism
How the language of timing the liturgy and the composition of chrism takes on theologies of inculturation and christology.
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Troubling the Lex Vivendi: The Church at Prayer Amidst an Imperiled Home
What is there about Sunday Mass participants that makes them least in accord with teachings on the ecology of Popes John Paul, Benedict, and Francis?
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Prayers of Intercession for the Season of Creation
“Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last 200 years.” How, therefore, shall we pray?
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