Without over-stating the obvious: we live in a period of our collective human history all at once odd, strange, anxious, confusing, stressful, and strikingly electric.
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Tag: Fr. Louis-Marie Chauvet
Doubt and Bodies
If religion, or faith, is only about belief, then when belief wavers or struggles, one simply no longer has it. In this view, faith isn’t in your bones, it’s merely in your thoughts about the world, or in your morals.
Read moreChauvet Newly Translated in German
Nearly thirty years since its original publication in France (June 1987) and twenty years after its English translation (December 1994), Louis-Marie Chauvet’s Symbole et Sacrement has just been released in German (Symbol und Sakrament, Pustet-Verlag, January 2015).
Read moreSymbolic loss
I found my wedding ring today about noon.
Read moreLooking for Christ in all the wrong places: the lesson of the empty tomb
Stop looking for a corpse and see where Christ has been risen.
Read moreWords from Louis-Marie Chauvet in support of Fritz Bauerschmidt’s post
“Are the Words of the Liturgy Worn Out? What Diagnosis? What Pastoral Approach?” is the title of Louis-Marie Chauvet’s 2009 Godfrey Diekmann, O.S.B., Award Response to the members of the North American Academy of Liturgy in Baltimore. I’ve quoted some paragraphs in support of Fritz Bauerschmidt’s brilliant post.
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