A 2021 survey of Austrian priests inquires whether we’ve followed through on the new (restored) paths to Christian initiation in this post-conciliar age. And what do our choices mean with regard to “remembering” our Baptism?
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Category: Liturgical Catechesis
One Flock, Walking Together
“When I join a communion procession, do I engage in this action as though I were a customer in line at a supermarket or an amusement park?”
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Brief Book Review: Turn to the Lord
“DeLorenzo asks us to take sacramental preparation out of the classroom and into more intimate and personal faith formation groups.”
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Brief Book Review: Connections Worship Companion, Year C Volume 1: Advent through Pentecost
David Wesson reviews Connections Worship Companion, Year C, Volume 1: Advent through Pentecost.
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On Human Formation and Body Language in Liturgy
The liturgy is replete with signs, symbols, and gestures meant to indicate particular things. However, at a fundamental human level, body language also speaks.
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May Madness: Popular Piety vs. Doctrinal Feasts
Yesterday, on the Trinity Sunday, I presided a Liturgy of the Eucharist in a parish where I had not been for a number of years.
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Ash Wednesday 2021 – A Pandemic Blessing in Disguise?
In 1988, British English language and spirituality educator Elizabeth-Anne Vanek offered this thoughtful insight on Ash Wednesday: You thumbed gritinto my furrowed brow,marking mewith the
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Onward from “the Virtual”
In a time in history in which everything is “virtual,” we ought never forget that God becomes one like us in truth and in reality.
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The New Directory for Catechesis
What does the new Directory for Catechesis have to say about liturgy? How do we understand that liturgy and catechesis “belong to one another”?
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