Category: 2_ARS CELEBRANDI
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Ars Praedicandi: Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
Instead of destroying hearts, weeding out differences, or eradicating strangers like invasive species the Jesus program for kingdom care offers a different path: to share soil, learn to cross-pollinate, nourish the flowering of others, and even to develop holy envy for their flourishing.
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A “Prayer for Vocations,” Or, how not to Arrange the Liturgical Chairs on the Deck of the Titanic
The Titanic – the ship of vocations to ordained ministry – is sinking.
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Writing our Lives in the Margins: Liturgical Texts & the Life of Faith
Thomas More took this book with him to the Tower of London
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Counting post-pandemic time in ordinary time
How are we doing as worshipping communities emerging from a global pandemic? The answer is probably, ‘it depends’ – where are we in the world and who are we talking about? I can only ask the question from a particular corner of the world, and from the limited perspective of a few Roman Catholic and…
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Ars Praedicandi: Pentecost, Ed Foley
If the church ever had a “do something” feast, it is this one a feast prodding us to allow God’s energizing Spirit to flow through us, together, as God remakes a world filled with too many deflated lives and punctured dreams.
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Instituted Ministries: What are we waiting for?
Don’t wait for someone else to do it. Empower your bishop.
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The Liturgy of the Gun
How do we respond to the liturgy of the gun?
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“Good Liturgy” and “What I’m Used To”
There is sometimes an under-appreciated connection between repetition over time and something being “meaningful.”
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Ars Praedicandi: Third Sunday of Easter, Ed Foley
And in this season of baptismal renewal we also commit ourselves to assisting the lost those who feel themselves straying from the path of their own treasure, those who need some life-giving U-turn, no matter how major or modest.