Author: Alan Hommerding
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Penultimate Praise
This is my last regular contribution to the PrayTell blog.
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Saintly Spaces
The saints on the liturgical calendar are a largely-untapped resource to inspire us in our own daily living.
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Transubstantiation: What vs. How vs. Why
Take and eat the Body of Christ broken for you. Take and drink the Blood of Christ shed for you.
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Radical Henotheism
How are we to be a radically henotheistic church in an increasingly and radically polytheistic world?
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Brief Book Review: Guide for Forming a Parish Bereavement Ministry
A concrete example of how to do liturgical/sacramental theology with the Church’s rites as a starting point, and how to incarnate that theology in the spiritual life of the parish and its members.
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ChantGPT?
The potential for A.I. to compose everything from new chants to choral works to congregational song creates its own labyrinthine network of questions.
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What Did Jesus Know? (or: Which Heresy Will You Give Up for Lent?)
I, for example, often struggle not to be a Closet Monophysite.
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Christmas & Epiphanytide: Season of Aiglatson
Every voice—from the smallest creature to the greatest of galaxies, will be lifted up in praise of the God of Jesus Christ.
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For the Season of the Word: A Biography of the Lectionary
“A treasure trove of insights which flow from the author’s work on this book…an important and exemplary…partner in formation with the Lectionary and the liturgical year.”