Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.
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Honeycutt confronts head-on truncated understandings of baptism as “fire insurance” against eternity in hell or as supernatural guarantee against misfortune.
Read moreThe Catholic Church’s Order of Christian Funerals has not changed over the past few decades while the culture surrounding funerals has.
Read moreWhen I was ministering in the United States (mainly Newark, NJ and Tri-State area), I never came across black vestments in use in the liturgy.
Read moreThe Liturgies at the Passing of a Loved One I have lost three loved ones in the past 18 months. First, my mother died suddenly
Read moreThe series is entitled, “Accompanying the Dying and the Dead in the Time of COVID”
Read moreProfessor Markus Rathey of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music will be offering a virtual one-week summer course on funeral music through the ages, as
Read moreMany people outside Ireland still tend to think of Ireland as a Catholic country. However, I think that the days of identifying Irishness with Catholicism
Read moreWatching the funeral of Prince Philip today (like so many people around the world) elicited a sequence of often-conflicting emotions in this liturgist. In my
Read moreI like to believe that titles are important. Not necessarily heraldic titles, though these can be equally amusing and impressive. Titles for books, however, need
Read moreSoul-searing beauty has the power to permeate the places we so often guard, to allow the grace of God’s love to enter.
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