Features explore ḥūḏrā of the Assyrian Church of the East, Carthusian stole practice as a potential model for women in the diaconate, the funerary rituals of E II R, and much more!
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Features explore ḥūḏrā of the Assyrian Church of the East, Carthusian stole practice as a potential model for women in the diaconate, the funerary rituals of E II R, and much more!
Read moreFollowing our founders’ tradition, we Jesuits regularly mark our writings with the phrase Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam. But can we human creatures really add anything to the divine glory?
Read moreI’m an ordained American Baptist clergyperson who received her academic training from a pontifical Catholic institution…
Read moreThe reform of the liturgy after Vatican II is also debated within some Orthodox circles.
Read moreNewly published material, all of it predating the Second Vatican Council, illustrates a wide range of views on liturgical development and change.
Read moreMy own impression of the purpose of [the increasinlgy speculative, abstract] development in his work was that it served to support the practical, clerical, highly conservative ecclesiology he promoted in his writings, lectures, and not least through his formative influence on an inner circle of students he nurtured in 1970s Paris, including (the later cardinals) Lustiger (Paris) and Shoenborn (Vienna) … .
Read moreHaving given permission for an expanded use of the vernacular in the celebration of the sacraments and the sacramentals, the Council Fathers now continue their practical decrees by beginning a consideration of the sacraments of initiation.
Read moreThe sacraments are ordered to the sanctifying of human beings, to the building up of the Body of Christ, and finally to rendering worship to God; assuredly as signs they also pertain to instruction.
Read moreThe document Stewards of the Tradition—Fifty Years after Sacrosanctum Concilium was developed by the Committee on Divine Worship of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
Read moreThe two parts that, in a certain sense, stand together as the Mass – none other than the liturgy of the word and the eucharistic liturgy – are so closely connected with each other that they accomplish one act of worship.
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