It was a lab for what we do and what we believe about death and liturgy, and an incredibly confusing one at that.
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Category: Inculturation
Ordination to Sacramental Priesthood: Traditional, Communal, Familial
The community exuded a practical, liturgical and communal, ecclesiology of their corporate baptismal identity as “a royal priesthood” (1 Peter 2:9) through not only their robust engagement in the Divine Liturgy but also their affective, and thus effective, hospitality to us.
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Wrestling with Words: Inclusive Language and the Difficulties of Prayer
We should always seek more adequate language about God, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that by doing so we can free ourselves from having to wrestle with the words in all their gendered, historical, concrete specificity.
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Pedro Arrupe on Inculturation
On the feast of Pentecost in 1978, he wrote a letter to all members of the Society of Jesus about inculturation which contains a definition of inculturation that almost every contemporary work on liturgical inculturation employ or at least makes mention of.
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Inculturation and imagination: the aesthetics of liturgical formation
I kept thinking I would hear Cree music; what I heard were Protestant hymns sung in Swampy Cree, N-dialect.
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Liturgy and Culture
The Philadelphia Liturgical Institute is seeks to understand how local congregations experience the relationship between liturgy and culture .
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Technology in Worship is like K-Pop in my Living Room
I get too distracted by the bright shining lights, and don’t really pay any attention at all. The same thing happens to me with technology in the liturgy—bring a screen in the sanctuary and I’m a lost soul.
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Revival! Tony Alonso Gives New Life to Classic Hymns
Traditional hymns for contemporary ensembles.
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The Awareness Heuristic: School Shootings and Flying Monstrances
Flying monstrances are a threat to the faith. But so is bad preaching, amateurish music, poor proclamation of the scriptures, bored celebrants, inattention to symbols, childish catechesis, and so forth.
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Re-claiming Our Potholes for the Spiritual Journey
This image is for those of us who plot our commute based on chunks of loose asphalt, who strategically drive in the breakdown lane, and who regularly dodge gaping holes in the pavement wide enough to swallow several adult male raccoons.
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