Author: Ingrid Fischer
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Bread and wine…
INGRID FISCHER — One is barely recognizable, the other is given to the faithful far too rarely,
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Liturgy and Life in a Late Autumn Choir Practice
INGRID FISCHER — This year I am learning the longing gaze from afar. And everything else I carry within me in the way of biblical words and liturgical experiences will, I hope, help me to understand him more and more deeply…
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Don’t let Easter pass by: the Easter cloths in Schottenstift
INGRID FISCHER — Unlike “Lent,” the annual Pascha (Easter) celebration lacks much of its existential seriousness and has little impact on the lives of the baptized.
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Blessed by God … but not by the Church?
INGRID FISCHER — Can couples living in a relationship not accepted by the church receive a blessing? A tiny little signal from Rome meaning “Yes, but” could not be interpreted more differently across the churches in Europe, America and all continents. What can be said about it without uprooting the delicate seedling of hope? But…
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Desiderio desideravi
Welcomed with anticipation, the Apostolic Exhortation Desiderio Desideravi by Pope Francis delivers less and different than its address to the “people of God” promises. A critical analysis shows: The overdue liturgical formation of all “dear sisters and brothers” is not the focus, but rather the cultivation of an “educated” spirituality and ars celebrandi of the…
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Drink from It, All of You: Recovering of the Chalice Communion
Who should want to do without one of them or might withhold them from others?
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In the image of God he created them …
What “being a woman” is has always been and still is decided by men in the Catholic Church – to the disadvantage of women.
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Baptized in the Ecclesial Faith
A 2021 survey of Austrian priests inquires whether we’ve followed through on the new (restored) paths to Christian initiation in this post-conciliar age. And what do our choices mean with regard to “remembering” our Baptism?
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How to Sanctify the World
Ask a hundred Catholics what is most important in the Church. They will answer: Mass. Ask a hundred Catholics what is most important in Mass. They will answer: Transubstantiation, the transformation of bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood. Tell a hundred Catholics that the most important thing in the Church is, therefore, transformation.…