The night that begins Christ’s passion is a great time to kill Easter flowers.
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Category: Liturgical Spirituality
Thesis: If every Catholic, lay and ordained, had been having regular experiences…
Thesis: If every Catholic, lay and ordained, had been having regular experiences for several decades now of the spiritually transformative power of the Eucharistic Prayer
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The Annunciation of the Lord: And Became Water?
But even more than God becoming human and 78% H2O as a newborn, the Incarnation is also about God becoming cosmic dust, and about God becoming genetic kin to all that is, since humans share with all that exists on planet earth a common genetic ancestry.
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The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography
The first lecture will be Monday, March 22, 2021, on “The Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord in Iconography,” beginning at 7:00 pm CT. The live stream/recording link is here.
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Let Us Give Thanks to the Lord…
What are we doing when we gather together as the Body of Christ? And, more importantly, why? From the earliest accounts of our Eucharistic celebration,
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Is Your Lent Half Full or Half Empty?
Does this feel like an ominous sign to you?
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March 3, 2021: Celebrating 1,700 Years of Sundays “Off”
Sunday for us must be more than a private, leisure-filled, home-spa kind of day. Rather, the holy day of Sunday really is about a radical de-centering of the self, for the sake of re-centering ourselves on the One who alone is Holy
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Fast and Abstinence and COVID
Let us consider ways of practicing penance that are possible in our time and in our regions.
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Ash Wednesday: Remember You Are Stardust
If remembering the end of our life is one part of these words, contemplating its beginning is the other; we return to what we have always been, so Genesis claims, namely dust. Stardust, actually…
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When Do We Worship?
If we sometimes wonder why people find mass boring, perhaps the answer has something to do with how well our liturgical space and action evoke a natural sense of worship and true adoration of God.
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