Our sacramental buildings are the last bastion holding out against the disenchantment and trashing of place.
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Category: c_THEOLOGY
Clericalism and the Pandemic
As any diocesan director of worship knows, there has been much to navigate during this distorting period in human history. At the center of concerns
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The month in review…
There is an odd sense of guilty relief – Holy Week is over.
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A Tale of Two Liturgies
Liturgy is an odd mix of the vertical and the horizontal, formality and intimacy, grandeur and humility.
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Exult! An End to Gloom and Darkness
“Be glad, let earth be glad as glory floods her, ablaze with light from her eternal King, let all corners of the earth be glad, knowing an end to gloom and darkness.”
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Lenting Hard . . . or Hardly Lenting?
I’ve mistaken my relatively consistent faithfulness to Lenten disciplines as truly “Lenting” during that forty-day stretch of life.
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Meditation in front of a Tabernacle
The parish where I worship collects food items at weekend Masses in order to provide support to a food pantry in an impoverished neighborhood in
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With Our Eyes on the Sparrows: A Lenten Reflection for Uncertain Days
Sparrows love the camellia bush just outside our back door. The bush bloomed with extraordinary enthusiasm this spring. Maybe the sparrows just can’t get enough
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Pandemics and Public Worship Throughout History
It can be of great comfort to reflect and learn about how Christian churches have responded to epidemics and pandemics throughout history.
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Life is Changed, Not Ended
What we celebrate liturgically speaks to our actual lived experience
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