If you are a teacher or catechist, how do you invite students to ponder the nature of theological learning?
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Category: Teaching Liturgy
Teaching Liturgy and forming liturgical leaders: history, theology, spirituality and practice
I continue to be surprised that the course is truly introductory for so many students.
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Teaching Liturgy in a Core Class
The objective is to read the texts and contexts with students to learn how ritual participation leads one into covenant with the living God.
Read moreSeeking the Wisdom of Pray Tell’s readers
Discussion is going forward at a number of Catholic institutions of higher learning with which I am acquainted about the advisability of starting or continuing
Read moreLiturgical Press Academic Is Launched
Liturgical Press announces a new imprint.
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The Theme of Today’s Liturgy is…squash?
The dreaded opening sentence: “The theme of today’s liturgy is…”
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Fairies and St. Michael
Last week, the world celebrated the 80th anniversary of the publication of a small, little book, whose trilogian successors C. S. Lewis said were ” like lightning from a clear sky; as sharply different, as unpredictable in our age as Songs of Innocence were in theirs.”
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Absolution Confusion
Many people are under the impression that the absolution by the priest actually absolves them from their sins.
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Watching People Watch (Then Not Watch) the Eclipse: A Liturgical-Theological Reflection
While the natural-cosmic event was surely most captivating, I also discovered my inner-anthropologist kicking in to make the following observation about the before-and-after dynamics that I think sheds some light (pardon the pun) on liturgical time-keeping.
Read moreThe Proslogion and Liturgy in the Classroom
One student was comforted to see her own questions in this text from 1000 years ago. Students wrestled with Anselm’s argument, let it bend their minds a bit, but began to see it as a reflection on a liturgical life.
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