God’s Word and words made flesh in preaching and worship matter. Communication and not the noise of slogans or the repetition of cliches is becoming
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Tag: Preaching
Brief Book Review: The Women’s Lectionary
“Ashley Wilcox urges preachers to take a year to focus on women in the Bible and feminine images of God.”
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In This Issue: Yale Journal of Music & Religion 7, no. 2 (2021)
Summary of the most recent Yale Journal of Music & Religion.
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Brief Book Review: Claiming the Call to Preach
Anne Koester reviews Donna Giver-Johnson, Claiming the Call to Preach.
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60-Second Sermon: 31st Sunday in OT
Rory Cooney reflects on the Gospel for the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time (3 November 2019) for our Sixty Second Sermon Series.
Read moreHolding Eucharist as Central
By all means, let us look again at power and authority in the Church, and consider ways to reform its use and avoid abuses. But not by relinquishing the real strength of our tradition, which holds Eucharist as central.
Read moreToo Many Masses? Pastoral-Liturgical Practice on Ash Wednesday
Given the history of Ash Wednesday’s emergence and various morphings over the centuries as a ritual-symbol inaugurating a season of penitence, I simply do not see why, in the Roman Catholic Church, at least, the most apt liturgy would not be based on the sample penitential services (basically, liturgies of the word) found at the end of the Rite of Penance.
Read more“How Not to Preach”
Fr. John J. Conley, S.J., of Loyola University Maryland offered a tongue-in-cheek reflection over at America earlier this week on what has become a popular topic, “how not to preach.”
Read moreRe-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 52
Having decreed in article 51 that richer scriptural fare is to be provided to the faithful at Mass, the Council Fathers now turn their attention
Read moreHow the Grinch mistranslated Christmas
The translation of the prayers for Midnight Mass is clumsy, and it misses the spirit of the Mass itself.
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