Category: Children
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Summertime
It is summertime because its time is unique from the rest of our year. Our schedules are actually more erratic.
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Data Protection and the Seal of Confession
I have posted before about the conditions in Ireland, particularly about the challenges of having most of our liturgical catechesis taking place within a school system that is under Catholic patronage (or management), but today with the added challenge that many of the teachers do not regularly practice Catholicism and many of the children receiving…
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A time to fully, consciously, actively participate
I must say that the level of attention I can bring to Mass as a music minister FAR surpasses any attention I can muster while wrangling an active little girl.
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Diocese of Gallup Restores Order of Sacraments for Children
On February 11, Bishop James S. Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, announced that the diocese will restore the order of the sacraments of initiation for children who are baptized in infancy. The process of implementing this change will extend over three years. Gallup will be the thirteenth American diocese to adopt the practice of celebrating…
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My Little Big Day
Since I returned to Ireland in 2013 and reacquainted myself with the Church in the country of my birth, having departed to study for the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Newark, NJ when I was eighteen, I can confirm my impressions in respect to a number of elements of parish life in Ireland as opposed…
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Liturgy, Distraction, and Children
The presence of each person old or young, tall or short, blind or sighted, nourishes each person.
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Follow-up: Suffering the Little Children
Comedian Jeremy McLellan nails it.
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Suffering the Little Children
Do small children belong at Mass?
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Even Jesus gets “Hi, Baby” in our House
We have plenty of pop Christmas songs about a “newborn king,” we don’t often think of Christ, the King, as a newborn baby.