This coming Sunday marks the first time we will observe the Sunday of the Word of God. PrayTell already covered this new observance. Regular readers may also have
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Category: Popular Piety
The Yale ISM Review: On Healing
What is healing about? How does it take place? What roles do prayer, liturgy, and the arts play in the process of healing? These are some of the questions raised and discussed in this issue.
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Devotional Prayer and Community
In early October, I was in Nairobi teaching at a program for contemplative nuns, and afterward I spent a few days with the Benedictine nuns
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Thanksgiving: A Prayer & Litany
God, thank you, for the gift of long friendship.
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November: The Month of All Souls
The coming of God’s Kingdom includes the resurrection of the dead, the resurrection of each one of us, and the resurrection of history from all its tears and ruins, from death and misery, destruction and tragedy.
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Are there things we ought not bless?
I was struck by an articleat Catholic News Agency that reported how the Russian Orthodox Church is considering ending their practice of blessing large weapons including
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Liturgical Inculturation in the Amazon: Not So Fast
Inculturation is a difficult process.
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Sacred, Secular and Cell Phones
The fundamental issue in my classroom was a split between profane (how one uses cell phone) and sacred (God-stuff).
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My Little Big Day
Since I returned to Ireland in 2013 and reacquainted myself with the Church in the country of my birth, having departed to study for the
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The bizarre effects of Christmas bazaars
The rejection of a “mini” Lent theology of Advent (almost always without any sense of the history of the season) is growing alongside the tsunami of the retail Christmas.
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