“I’ll continue to read the Bible on my iPad, but I’m grateful for a reminder that a book can be both a physical and a spiritual thing.”
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The Paschal Eclipse of the Sunday Lectionary
On a Sunday just before Lent, a lector told me with surprise, “In all my years of being a lector, I don’t think I’ve ever encountered the readings we have for today.”
Read moreRachel Held Evans is blogging the lectionary
“I discovered this whole world of online collaboration happening among clergy from Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal, Baptist, and Lutheran churches (and more!) all working through the same few passages…. This is exactly how the Bible is meant to be engaged—collaboratively, in community, with a diversity of people and perspectives represented.”
Read moreVoices from the Abbey: Lazarus, Come Out!
“This insistence that the body is integral to our very identity was a key point of distinction between Christians and other schools of thought in antiquity. The body is not a temporary dwelling for the soul, or its ‘prison’: being embodied is essential to who we are.” – Columba Stewart, OSB
Read moreWhat do cantors need most?
Some insights from the nationally-known cantor clinician Joe Simmons, at the NPM Convention.
Read moreResponsorial Psalm and Antiphon for 18th OT C—haven’t we talked about this before?
Attempting to accomplish another task, I was just consulting the USCCB website for August 4, 2013 and was reminded that there is a problem with
Read more“Biblical” Prayers of the People?
I find myself quite ambivalent about attempts to the link the Prayers of the People with the biblical readings for the day. Why not simply announce the intentions, and leave it at that?
Read moreDid the pre-Vatican II Mass really have more Scripture than now?
I thought it’d be interesting once to do the math. So I made a little chart with the 1962 Scripture readings (including the propers) on the left and the reformed lectionary readings (presuming no propers) on the right for the coming Sunday, July 7.
Read moreRefresh my heart: “Send them out as prayer”
Here it is, the second week of Easter. The ice on the lake in my neighborhood is gradually receding. The grass is a slightly greenish shade of brown, and the geese are arriving, and I’m thinking about the proclamation of the word in the liturgy.
Read moreMore about SC 24, Sacred Scripture, and the Lectionaries
All readers of this blog are grateful to Father Joncas for his series on re-reading of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy [SC]. But do
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