Where the world might see brokenness and defeat, my son sees a peerless member of the communion of super-heroes, with powers far greater than I ever imagined.
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Category: Liturgical Spirituality
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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A Horticulturist Goes to Mass
Sometimes I look at liturgy through the eyes of a rubricist.
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Pope Francis issues major document on liturgical formation
What Pope Francis wants is “astonishment at the paschal mystery.”
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Thinking Through Tradition with the Myrrhbearers and St John
Tradition is not just information about God, or correct words and ritual forms. It is rather a living encounter with God.
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Liturgy . . . an Accretion Disk?
What if liturgy is like an accretion disk?
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Holy Week, Again
Agony, agony caused by gun and greed Jesus dies again
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An April 1 Litany
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to those who are being saved it is the power of God.
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Heaven and Hell
We did not know whether we were in heaven or on earth.
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From all anxiety…deliver us good Lord!
Nothing prevents any worshiping community from adding prayers for the relief of anxiety that is noticeably debilitating for many people these days.
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