From my Introduction to the first issue of Liturgy for 2019, which I had the pleasure of guest-editing:
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Category: Penance-Reconciliation
Penitential Liturgy
I watched it with interest, both because of the unusual nature of the gathering, and because I wondered what it might tell us about penitential celebrations generally.
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Is Penance a Problem for Lent?
Tim Gabrielli’s 2013 enlightened study on the issues facing adolescent celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation, Confirmation, has the very fitting subtitle, “How a Sacrament
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The Covenant of Dust
We must turn from the covenant of sin and death to embrace the covenant of love and life that is offered to us in Jesus Christ.
Read moreLiturgy Lines: Communal Reconciliation: The Second Rite
Such poor celebrations turn people away and deprive them of a wonderful opportunity to experience communal reconciliation which “shows more clearly the communal nature of penance”
Read moreJohn Carroll’s Prayer for Government
Liturgy Lines: “The Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy Draws to a Close”
What might parishes do around this time to mark the end of the Year of Jubilee?
Read more2016 CTSA Proceedings: Reports on Sacraments & Liturgy
The annual convention theme was “Justice and Mercy,” while a couple of the sessions addressed topics in sacramental and liturgical theology. Here are links to the newly e-published Proceedings.
Read moreFrench Muslims attend Mass today
This is not a question of interreligious prayer (which is a delicate question), but of interreligious encounter.
Read moreA Place for Reconciliation
Should the Church be holding more open-air reconciliation events, out in the sunshine?
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