Drone warfare, consumer culture, guilt-driven obedience, faith amidst a pluralistic world are among topics six fresh voices address in a growing collection of articles on sacramental-liturgical theology.
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Category: Liturgy and Virtues
The Eucharist Commits Us to the Poor
All these hungry people, and the disciples don’t think they’ve got the wherewithal to help. But, guess what? They have.
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Another Rembrandt: Thoughts on the Prodigal Son
The Prodigal Son is the centerpiece of the last three Sundays of Lent in Year C. Why?
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Fasting, Mainstream Culture, and Liturgy
Fasting is one practice that enables the practitioner to become aware of their less fortunate brothers and sisters.
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Humility and Worship
Humility as a precondition for worship and as contributing factor to participation in worship can remind us all that liturgy and life form a closed circuit and yet a circuit that opens to the in-breaking of the kingdom of God.
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Standing together: the solidarity of prayer
I am not attempting to erase differences between Christianity and Islam or even advocate for interreligious prayer, but I find it helpful to reflect on how a visual and kinesthetic practice embodying an Islamic lex orandi lex credendi may function as a call to reflection on Christian liturgy and the importance of solidarity in body as well as spirit.
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“You Know What to Do:” Liturgy as a Labor of Love
I admit to nursing a bit of envy when I think of the ways Catholic worshipers are formed.
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More Mercy on the Brain
The humility of which Augustine speaks, then, is surely a matter of not aiming too high. (See Adam and Eve, fall of.) Knowing oneself is also, however, a matter of not aiming too low.
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Liturgy, Preaching, and the Social Teaching of the Church: Going Back to Our Roots
Jesus did not die as a result of old age. Neither did he die from natural causes. He was murdered by the political and social powers of his time.
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Patience is not a substitute for the pursuit of justice and compassion in the world. It is a complement to that pursuit, borne up always by the gracious God who seeks to bring to completion the good work that he has begun.
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