Category: Devotions and Sacramentals
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When Christmas Hurts
How often do our parishes acknowledge pregnancies that fail?
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Brief Book Review: The Mysticism of the Present Moment
“Mendonça intensively contemplates what is most human as what is integral to spirituality.”
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Book Review: From Isolation to Community
“Werntz has provided a real gift in a time of not just isolation but suspicion and division.”
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Help, there’s a Monstrance in my Mass
Celebration of the Eucharist. Devotion to the Eucharist. Which is better? What were we doing right now?!?
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Is the Eucharistic Revival a Liturgical Revival?
Will the revival abstract Eucharist from sacramental celebration?
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Holy Water — Contactless
I have really, really missed the regular availability of holy water. I was therefore glad – as well as somewhat bemused — to find a COVID-attentive holy water dispenser when I went to Mass earlier today, in a Gothic Cathedral no less.
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Pre-Signed Sympathy Cards On Sale Here
Mass intentions are an area of sacramental theology that require more theological reflection (see the recent articles by John Baldovin here and here). In Ireland the practice of giving a Mass Card when you pay your respects at a funeral or a wake is still very common. Funerals are still a major social event here…
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Popular Piety: Holy Cards
Popular piety can’t really be programmed. You never know where something like this is going to land.
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Open for Prayer
Paul Westermeyer argues for the value of keeping a church “open for prayer” beyond those times when services are being held.