Category: Children
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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.
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St. Benedict’s Raven
A sacramental understanding of the church is necessary to any contemporary reform movement because without it we cannot separate loyalty to the institution from fidelity to Christ, even when those institutions become poisonous.
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God Will Scatter the Proud in their Conceit
But, today, I can’t sing Lee Greenwood’s iconic “American” song. I find it even more repulsive to sing these words in a house of worship.
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Doing Liturgical Formation
The children burn palms to make ashes, have instruction and conversation on the meaning of ashes, of Lent, and of preparing (exercising their spiritual muscles) to get ready for Easter.