Category: 2_ARS CELEBRANDI
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Ars Praedicandi: Easter Sunday
So do we sing Alleluia? Or phooey? If Christ is risen death vanquished, and resurrection assured why do the innocent still die and so much suffering endure?
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Hurried Solemnities
Solemnities and the many other liturgical feasts that fill our calendar are meant to be true celebrations. Our current Missal translation even uses the word “festival” in some of the prayers. However, sometimes the added liturgical elements can provide a challenge to celebration. I remember as a seminarian, that when a solemnity added a third…
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Ars Praedicandi: 5th Sunday of Lent, Ed Foley
So many folks in our own ambit are languishing in the darkness of some tomb hoping God or one of God’s people might speak or act in such a way that they hear the resounding invitation to come forth, leave the darkness behind, be unbound, and step into the light.
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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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Ars Praedicandi: 3rd Sunday of Lent, Ed Foley
But this third Sunday of Lent, which the church designates as the premiere day for the first public scrutiny of the elect moving towards Easter sacraments, reminds us that Lent is first and foremost a font journey, a well-drawing opportunity, a rock-striking moment for those thirsting for life eternal.
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Prayers of the fA.I.thful
Can ChatGPT help us pray?
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Holy Communion: who should distribute and where?
Does the positioning of ministers reflect our theology?
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Ars Praedicandi: 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
Turning the other cheek was not an act of cowardice or passivity but an act of defiance.
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Non-Celebrating Priests as Ministers of Communion
Each Sunday…a number of priests wearing cassocks, surplices, and stoles swoop into the sanctuary from various doors in order to distribute communion.