Anthony Ruff, OSB, Author at Home

Update: Archbishop Piero Marini

We continue to hold him in prayer.

The first reflex of many Christians at renaming Good Friday” to “Spring Holiday” is to howl in protest. That impulse should be resisted.

Let us pray for his health and well-being.

The Conference seeks to stimulate a deep reflection in musical, liturgical, theological and phenomenological terms, leaving aside sterile polemics.

That’s not funny.

You would think some of these guys had never heard a homily before.

Some wanted everything in the liturgy to be immediately intelligible, rational, horizontal and human.

When it first went up at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York in 1984, “all hell broke lose.” It was taken down. And now…

We Catholics need to have more reverence – not just for the ritual and its proper execution, but for one another.