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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Category: Social Justice
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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Ars Praedicandi: St. Oscar Romero, pray for us.
This Sunday’s canonization of Oscar Romero provided a lens through which to view the radical call to discipleship that Jesus issues to the rich man—and to all of us—in today’s Gospel.
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Book Review: Music, Theology, and Justice
Though the book’s primary focus is music, its two partners imbue the entirety of the essays.
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Pray for Journalists
We need to pray in ways that recall the community’s investment in courageous journalism, and pray for those reporters who face persecution and threats around the world.
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Celebrating the 4th: a tale of two propers
The propers appointed for Independence Day in the United States give us two distinct approaches to celebrating July 4.
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God Will Scatter the Proud in their Conceit
But, today, I can’t sing Lee Greenwood’s iconic “American” song. I find it even more repulsive to sing these words in a house of worship.
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Addai, Mari, and Me
The Assyrians hold a treasure in their liturgy—a liturgical gem that belongs to the great, diverse heritage of worldwide Christianity.
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Latest Issue of Questions Liturgiques, Including Article on Schmemann
Alexander Schmemann published a tight corpus of writings focused on articulating the irreducible, eschatological content of the liturgy as revelatory of divine redemption, while continuously insisting that this fundamental tradition of the church is doubly crippled by ignorance of its eschatological nature and mistaken efforts to draw contemporary social concerns into its practice.
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