Category: Amen Corner
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AMEN CORNER: A Clash of Languages
Genevieve Glen, OSB, offers this quarter’s Amen Corner.
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AMEN CORNER: Reflections on Impediments to Synodality
Richard Gaillardetz offers timely words on synodality and conflict.
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AMEN CORNER: Response
A response to Nicholas Denysenko’s AMEN CORNER from Pray Tell contributor Paul Inwood.
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With Our Eyes on the Sparrows: A Lenten Reflection for Uncertain Days
Sparrows love the camellia bush just outside our back door. The bush bloomed with extraordinary enthusiasm this spring. Maybe the sparrows just can’t get enough of the flowers’ pink lemonade. Whatever the reason, sparrows are bounteous and busy in our backyard. And they are quite fearless too. Just yesterday one of them landed with confidence…
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AMEN CORNER: How to Do Things with Psalms: Framing Multiple Modes of Liturgical Engagement
Part of the wonder is how the very same psalm text can function in such different ways, directing our attention introspectively or exocentrically across time and space…
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AMEN CORNER: Apprenticing Ourselves to the Antiphonal
“I think that there is much to be learned from “apprenticing ourselves” to the Antiphonal, letting it surprise us, stretch us, and even discomfort us.”
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AMEN CORNER: “Authentic” Chant Interpretation
It is about so much more than getting the rhythms right. It is about singers making the liturgical chant their own.
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AMEN CORNER Response: The problem of too many people going to Mass
Scripture expresses a preference for one bread and one cup.
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AMEN CORNER: There’s Always Room at the Table
The communion procession is so much richer than the practical matter of getting from A to B. It is a ritual expression of our identity as fellow pilgrims on a journey to the heavenly banquet, singing as we walk.