Author: David Fagerberg
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Wishing you a Not-so-Merry Christmas
A Chestertonian view of Christmas. “… there is in that image a true idea of an outpost, of a piercing through the rock and an entrance into an enemy territory. There is in this buried divinity an idea of undermining the world; of shaking the towers and palaces from below; even as Herod the great…
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On a Lapsed Symbol
DF: They won’t understand your intention. DWF: But it’s not complicated. I just have a question. Questions are what academics do. DF: But it’s a politicized issue, and people will think you’re advocating one thing or denying another thing. DWF: But surely I can raise an observation. DF: It’s your skin. Go ahead. DWF: Well,…
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Summer “What We’re Reading” Wednesday II
August 15 is my birthday. When people ask why I became Catholic I reply “Because Jesus still can’t refuse his mother anything.”
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Benedict on the new liturgical movement
The prescient John Allen says a moto proprio on marriage is forthcoming, in which the Holy Father will comment also on liturgy, if briefly.
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Finger and a face
Two years ago I committed one of the more heroic acts in my life. I drove in Italy. To locate my valor more precisely, I drove through Pisa to take my family to see “The Leaning Tower Of.” Until that trip, my wife and children did not know my head could rotate so nimbly, or…
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Unfolding the Mystery of Christ: Exploring Liturgical Time
Here is a moment, and on the surface it doesn’t last any longer than any other moment. But the same length of time can sometimes be filled with a content that is bigger than the moment that contains it. Its inside is bigger than its outside.
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Sacramentalism and Brights
It’s tough to be a sacramentalist in a world of brights.
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Job Description for Liturgical Musicians
My interest here is to share one passage which shakes up our notion of temple musicians.