Category: Children
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Toddler, Teach Me to Pray
Our son teaches us that just uttering the name of the Living One can be prayer enough.
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Better than Winning the Lottery
There is an interesting article and beautiful photo-essay by James Estrin in yesterday’s New York Times about the Rapaport family, from Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York, who are followers of the Kosov sect of Hasidic Judaism. The Rapaports have maintained a family tradition of baking their own matzo (unleavened bread) for Passover. While most families…
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The Paschal Triduum that (almost) Wasn’t
My daughter’s fearlessness in the face of mud puddles gives us a new slant on the font, and those brave catechumens who (will eventually) plunge into those murky baptismal waters.
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The “Restored Order” for Initiation: Is it a “Progressive” or a “Traditionalist” victory?
I had the pleasure of visiting with a former student recently, who has worked within the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois after her graduation. As she and I tend to talk about things Church-related, she reported that her Diocese had just switched the “Restored Order,” and that she wondered how this would affect programming for the…
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Pirates, Pelagius and Prayer
Whatever else may be happening in Christian worship, God is there to say, “I have some help for you.”
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Female Altar Servers? Acolytes? East and West
One of the most debated liturgical practice and pastoral issues of our day is the opening of formal roles for women and girls in the liturgical assembly…
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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.