May we go forth renewed in the relentlessness of divine love.
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Category: Pastoral Theology
Webinar from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music to Launch June 21
The series is entitled, “Accompanying the Dying and the Dead in the Time of COVID”
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Eugenio Costa SJ, 1934-2021
With his death we come to the end of an era of the great post-Vatican II liturgical pioneers.
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Awareness, Wisdom, Will: A “Culture of Care”–in Liturgy
Cardinal Parolin’s brief but trenchant suggestions for a conference on climate change led me to reflect on the question of how we develop a “culture of care” in liturgy.
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Singing for the Dead: Pie Jesu
Soul-searing beauty has the power to permeate the places we so often guard, to allow the grace of God’s love to enter.
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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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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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Mercy is the Problem
During my undergraduate days at The Catholic University of America, I was very fortunate to take an upper level christology course, “Jesus as the Christ,”
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Again and again let us pray to the Lord
Through repetition, we “remember the future.”
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What My Dreams are Telling Me about Covid-19
I, or at least my subconscious, is mightily struggling across this desert-sea of worship-less existence.
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