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Help with summer program on “The Essentials of Catholic Liturgy”

I am honored to have been asked to be a presenter for a third-track program co-sponsored by Liturgy Training Publications and the National Association of

Liturgical change at the Second Vatican Council: a report from 1963

October 5, 2020 Jonathan Day Liturgical Movement Pope Benedict XVI Vatican II

Ratzinger on the liturgies held at the start and conclusion of the 1st session of Vatican II.

The 60-Second Sermons in Review

October 5, 2020 Other Voices 60-Second Sermon Ars Praedicandi Homiletics

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.

Reclaiming Collective Repentance: What Can We Learn from Lost “Disaster Prayers”?

October 1, 2020 Other Voices Environment and Ecology Pastoral Theology Penance-Reconciliation

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.

The July Issue of Worship

October 1, 2020 Editor Journal Reviews 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

Unfamiliar Fishes – Culture – Evangelization

August 11, 2020 Alan Hommerding

History shows us that human rites and religions get old patterns set very deeply in their bones—which is both a strength and weakness.

Discerning the essential in sacramental liturgy: ordinations in a time of pandemic

August 10, 2020 Lizette Larson Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy Eucharist Ordained Ministry

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.

The January Issue of Worship

August 6, 2020 Editor 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

We’re Still Waiting for a Reformed Liturgy of the Hours

July 22, 2020 Katharine E. Harmon Liturgy of the Hours Pastoral Theology

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.