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The Annunciation on the Lenten Journey

March 25, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Liturgical Spirituality

In this moment of the Annunciation, Mary is able to say something about who she IS, in order to step forward into who she will BECOME.

Samaritan Sacramentality: 3rd Lenten Sunday, 1st Scrutiny

March 24, 2019 Bruce Morrill Homiletics Initiation / RCIA

How to preach in the contemporary Roman Catholic context the complex story of a multiply divorced and remarried woman? How proclaim a word enabling two young men to be a sign of conversion for us all?

The First Temptation of Ministry?

March 11, 2019 Alan Hommerding

I got to wondering to what extent “workism” has infected my own life, work, and ministry.

The Lenten Bucket List

February 27, 2018 Alan Hommerding Liturgical year

Ultimately, I believe there is one item on the discipleship bucket list: to be a more faithful disciple. Everything else is frosting, or gravy (neither of which I’ve given up for Lent), or what have you.

Ars Praedicandi: Listening in the Wilderness

February 20, 2018 Kimberly Long Ars Praedicandi Liturgical year

Some people give up something for Lent—chocolate, or booze, or some other pleasure. Some people instead take on a discipline or a practice, like daily devotions or acts of mission. Whatever we decide to do, or not to do, it seems to me that the most important thing in these forty days is to listen to what God is saying to us.

A Time of Waiting

February 18, 2018 Other Voices Liturgical year

Some of our days this Lent will be unavoidably hectic, the rush and scurry leaving us exhausted by late evening. But there will be other days that are less jam-packed, where the treadmill slows down and we have unaccustomed time and space that is not determined by others, where time is our own.

Will you be my VaLENTine?

February 13, 2018 Audrey Seah Humor Liturgical year

We’ve all seen the diocesan responses to the Valentine’s day/ Ash Wednesday dilemma — celebrate on Shrove Tuesday, do penance on Ash Wednesday, they say. Brian Flanagan has a better both/and solution.

Good Reasons to Be Vegetarian

February 8, 2018 Liborius Lumma Environment and Ecology Liturgical year

Why being vegetarian can make sense for a Christian.

Watching People Watch (Then Not Watch) the Eclipse: A Liturgical-Theological Reflection

August 24, 2017 Bruce Morrill Liturgical year Ritual Studies Teaching Liturgy

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.

Lenten Fasting

March 20, 2017 Timothy Brunk Liturgical year

Perhaps the point is not *this* shared penitential practice as opposed to the other practices but rather this *shared* penitential practice.

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