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
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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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Troubling the Lex Vivendi: The Church at Prayer Amidst an Imperiled Home
What is there about Sunday Mass participants that makes them least in accord with teachings on the ecology of Popes John Paul, Benedict, and Francis?
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Liturgical Expressions on the Hill
It’s been quite a week for those interested in the relationship between liturgy and the public life in Washington DC. The Department of State hosted
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Refugees and Baptism
What does it mean to celebrate baptism in a world where refugees drown?
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Un-hiding Our Would-Be Black Catholic Sisters
These women have been committed to oblivion by not being allowed to exist in the community record at all.
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Racism and the Liturgy: Q&A with a Sociologist
Any marginalization and discrimination present in the Church would be seen in liturgy – these things don’t happen in a vacuum.
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Involuntary Immigration, Feast Days, Devotions, Prayer and Poetry
For many of us, today is Halloween, all hallows eve, the Vigil of All Saints, the last day of October, Mary’s month, month of the Rosary, month of the Queen of all saints.
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The Love of God and Neighbor: The Life of Saint Maria Skobtsova— Connecting Liturgy and Ethics
Mother Maria sought to connect the liturgy of the church with the liturgy of our lives.
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Baptism, Eucharist, and Artistic Tokens of New Heavens and a New Earth
Now in its second decade on the stages of Nashville’s storied Ryman Auditorium and Lipscomb University, the Tokens Show presents lively entertainment as an ongoing “cultural experiment” pulling together Americana, folk, and contemporary music wherein music-making, song-singing, and conversations help imagine a world of beauty and wonder, justice and mercy, peace and graciousness.
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