Category: 2_ARS CELEBRANDI
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Ars Praedicandi: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
We do not pray that we be delivered from the natural emotions that punctuate our living fully, but that we might employ them to spur us into gospel living and develop holy anxiety for the good things.
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A Color for Holy Saturday
When Easter 2022 was over, a colleague contacted me: Just asking with foresight, what is the liturgical color of Holy Saturday? This question might be irrelevant in most cases, since there is no Holy Saturday Mass. But what color should a priest’s stole have when he presides e.g. at Tenebrae? I remembered that around 10…
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Only “inculturated” Roman Missal since Vatican II
Vatican News has an article on Pope Francis and the Missel Romain pour les Diocèses du Zaïre. This is in the context of his cancelled trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo Where he was due to travel in July. The Vatican Publishing House is publishing a book (in French) about this edition of the…
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Is the Eucharistic Revival a Liturgical Revival?
Will the revival abstract Eucharist from sacramental celebration?
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Ars Praedicandi: Body and Blood of Christ, Ed Foley
Many of us don’t have deep resources, and have our own version of a few loaves and fishes, but on this coalescing, if not collision, of festivals and feasts, we too are commissioned to sacrifice, to struggle, to endure so that, no matter how modestly, we too can multiple, nourish, and liberate for those children…
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Ars Praedicandi: Pentecost, Ed Foley
In baptism, when distinctively gifted with the Jesus spirit, we were commissioned in tongues, not to speak to Parthian, Mede, and Elamite but to speak to the stranger and the lost, the broken and the bereft, the marginalized and dismissed, and so become graced travelers across the multiverse we call humanity, healing the rifts resulting…
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Black Vestments
When I was ministering in the United States (mainly Newark, NJ and Tri-State area), I never came across black vestments in use in the liturgy. It was a theoretic option for November 2 and Funeral Masses/Masses for the Dead, but I have never actually seen it in use or had a family request it. In…
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Ars Praedicandi: Ascension
The Ascension is not about escape.
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Ars Praedicandi: Fifth Sunday of Easter, Ed Foley
Living a life of faith requires an imagination, a vision of what could be in God.