Liturgy on TV, radio or through other electronic means is not a new thing. Beginning in the 1950s with the first televised liturgy from Westminster
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Category: Technology and Worship
Unmute Yourself: The Prophetic Call of Zoom Worship Rubrics
“Unmute yourself.” “Be sure to mute yourself.” These phrases have become common pandemic parlance. We might even say they have become ritual rubrics, of a
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Windows in Walls
When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary. John O’Donohue I have been reflecting quite a bit
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“I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord”
What have we learned in our time of eucharistic famine?
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Shaping Worship during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creative, hope-filled resources from our friends at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
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Livestreamed Eucharist “Without the People” – Step Backward or Forward?
In a time of internet and of the coronavirus pandemic, we must completely rethink community.
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Mass Online with Full, Conscious, and Active Participation?
My experience made me realize that I had watched Masses many times online before as a spectator rather than a participant. Because I had access to Mass in person, TV and online masses felt optional, something “extra,” so I never had the urge to participate fully, consciously, and actively until now.
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I’m not trying to Google “Extraordinary Form of the Mass”
Where is the Ordinary Form of the Mass on social media? On Google? Anywhere, out there, on the vast and billowing waves of the world wide web?
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An Interview with Martin Kochanski Founder of Universalis Publishing
Last week I gave a short profile of Martin Kochanski. This week I am sharing some questions that I put to Martin on how he sees
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An unlikely liturgist
In 1845 when John Henry Newman entered into full communion with the Catholic Church it was considered remarkable that he managed to figure out how
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