Our liturgies must resonate with “the music of the Gospel.” Here are some thoughts on how we might do that — inspired by the Pope’s new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti.
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Category: Penance-Reconciliation
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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Renouncing Satan and the Divine Liturgy: A Proposal
The rite draws upon the renunciation/confession baptismal foundation,
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Pope Francis on Creativity and Confession
Today’s London’s Tablet carried an interview with Pope Francis by the famous papal-biographer Austen Ivereigh. Given the social-distancing reality Ivereigh agreed to submit half a
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Is it time for General Absolution?
In 1862, Father William Corby probably performed the most famous instance of General Absolution in the history of the United States. According to the Wikipedia
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Deaf Access to the Sacrament of Reconciliation: Past and Present
Reconciliation has historically been one of the most difficult sacraments for Deaf and hard-of-hearing Catholics to access and continues to be so.
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Young Scholars Bring New Questions and Multiple Disciplines to Bear on Sacramental Theology
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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Newest Issue of Liturgy: Confession & Reconciliation
From my Introduction to the first issue of Liturgy for 2019, which I had the pleasure of guest-editing:
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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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