Author: Bruce Morrill
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Marking the 50th Anniversary of Josef Jungmann’s Death
BRUCE MORRILL – The Catholic Theological Faculty at the University of Innsbruck, in coordination with the Jesuitenkolleg, are celebrating the person and formidable pastoral-theological contributions of Josef Jungmann, S.J., in this fiftieth year after his death (+26.01.1975).
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Preaching and the Political, Part 3: Christ the King
BRUCE MORRILL – The liturgical year is reaching its culmination, as has the U.S. political cycle. Preaching on Christ the King in the wake of Election Day invites consideration of this feast’s modern origin and present implications.
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Preaching and the Political, Part 2
BRUCE MORRILL – Neighbor. The term bears an unsettled, even volatile quality in U.S. society this early November.
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Preaching and the Political, Part 1
BRUCE MORRILL — Preaching. Political. Each term is fraught with a range of meanings (positive and negative), a range of emotions—and not surprisingly so.
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Jesuit Liturgists Examine Formation at July 2024 Congress
BRUCE MORRILL — The International Jungmann Society for Jesuits and the Liturgy convened its tenth biennial congress, July 1st – 6th, Cebu, Philippines. Forty-five Jesuits from seventeen provinces across the globe engaged the Congress theme, “Liturgy and Liturgical Formation in the Society of Jesus.”
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Ars Praedicandi: Marriage, Sacrament of Trinitarian Unity
KIMBERLY HOPE BELCHER — God’s unity does not only overcome differences, but makes them possible.
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Eucharist, Faith, and Social Justice
BRUCE MORRILL — Morrill lectures on Christian faith as a praxis of liturgy and ethics given as part of a series supporting the USCCB’s Eucharist Revival at St. Francis Xavier Church, New York City, April 7, 2024.
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Embodiment & Liturgy: Introducing the Saint Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
BRUCE MORRILL — This week’s publication of my large (14,000+ words) essay, “Embodiment and Liturgy,” on the Saint Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology prompts me to introduce Pray Tell readers to this open-access, online academic resource.
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Statement by Catholic-Lutheran Liturgical Seminar Encourages Full Communion
A seminar inaugurated at the 2018 annual meeting of the North American Academy of Liturgy to forge a contribution to Catholic-Lutheran ecumenical dialogue has concluded its work with the publication of “On the Way to Full Communion: Thinking About Christian Unity from Liturgy” (29 June 2023). John F. Baldovin, S.J. and Thomas H. Shattauer, conveners…