“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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Category: c_THEOLOGY
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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Corona Pandemic and Oikonomia
How we analyze others amidst the corona pandemic.
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Flattening the Worship Curve?
I hope we will not forget to ask ourselves what makes worship worship. What distinguishes worship from private prayer, or witnessing online praying?
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A Message of Accompaniment
The Saint John’s Department of Theology and Graduate School of Theology have teamed up to create a biweekly series called A Message of Accompaniment during this challenging time.
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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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