Tireless evangelist for Latin, pioneering teacher with an eccentric approach – but it reflected a deep understanding of how languages work.
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The Ecumenical Muddle of Celebrating the Transfiguration of the Lord
What is the difference between “Transfiguration Sunday,” “The Feast of the Transfiguration,” and the proclamation of the gospel narrative of the transfiguration? In large part
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A Liturgical Turn in Orthodoxy? A Review of 2020
Did the obsession with Christ’s presence in communion vessels obscure a recognition of Christ in the people of our cities, towns, and neighborhoods?
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Liturgical change at the Second Vatican Council: a report from 1963
Ratzinger on the liturgies held at the start and conclusion of the 1st session of Vatican II.
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The 60-Second Sermons in Review
What are the criteria of effective preaching? How does a preacher improve? Pierre Hegy analyzes Pray Tell’s 60-Second Sermons and offers some suggestions.
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Reclaiming Collective Repentance: What Can We Learn from Lost “Disaster Prayers”?
Through ritual actions and prayers of repentance in times of disaster, the church is invited to offer itself in service to those most afflicted by natural calamities and to denounce, through the act of repentance, the collective sin that exacerbates those afflictions.
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The July Issue of Worship
Summary of the July 2020 issue of Worship Worship is a peer-reviewed, international ecumenical journal for the study of liturgy and liturgical renewal. Founded in
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Unfamiliar Fishes – Culture – Evangelization
History shows us that human rites and religions get old patterns set very deeply in their bones—which is both a strength and weakness.
Read moreDiscerning the essential in sacramental liturgy: ordinations in a time of pandemic
Even in a time of pandemic, the eucharistic is not an optional liturgical context for ordinations, but of the essence of the sacramental action of the Trinity and the Church because of the unity of church, eucharist and priesthood.
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The January Issue of Worship
Summary of the January 2020 issue of Worship Worship is a peer-reviewed, international ecumenical journal for the study of liturgy and liturgical renewal. Founded in
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We’re Still Waiting for a Reformed Liturgy of the Hours
I’m looking forward to some more hopeful future in which I might be able to join the Church again—maybe over a bowl of purréed mangos—in sanctifying the day.
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