In his blog on this site last week (6 July), Michael Joncas gave a wonderful overview of the Irish Church Music Association gathered in Maynooth,
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Category: Inculturation
Liturgical Inculturation in the Amazon: Not So Fast
Inculturation is a difficult process.
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Scarves instead of palms in Senegal
The situation in Dakar is unique because it is motivated by ecology rather than a simple question of what is available.
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Ordinariate Divine Worship Complementary Norms
Today the CDF released some Complementary Normsof the Apostolic Constitution “Anglicanorum coetibus” of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith along with an Explanatory Note. Some
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Newest Issue of Liturgy: Confession & Reconciliation
From my Introduction to the first issue of Liturgy for 2019, which I had the pleasure of guest-editing:
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Un-hiding Our Would-Be Black Catholic Sisters
These women have been committed to oblivion by not being allowed to exist in the community record at all.
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Catholics Celebrate the Lunar New Year
For Catholics in Asia, the Lunar New Year is celebrated almost as if it were a Feast day.
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Racism and the Liturgy: Q&A with a Sociologist
Any marginalization and discrimination present in the Church would be seen in liturgy – these things don’t happen in a vacuum.
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Founding a Benedictine monastery near Nairobi
As mentioned in my last post, early October found me in Nairobi for a second time in three years, teaching monastic art as part of
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Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth
Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.
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