Category: 3_SCHOLARSHIP
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The Feast of Saint Andrew
The Apostle Andrew teaches us to follow Jesus with promptness, to speak enthusiastically about him to those we meet.
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Multiple Translations in Use Together
The use of more than one English translation does not need to cause spiritual distress or confusion.
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100 Years After the Bolshevik Revolution: Bolshevik Famines and Theology
From 1932-33, Stalin authorized the removal of all grain, produce, livestock, and food from rural Ukraine to place his proverbial boot on the throat of the people.
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Liturgical stage fright – On stopping platform worship
Liturgy must be spatially activated so that it takes place among the assembly, not simply before their eyes.
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Pumpkins and Pine Trees and Palms, Oh My….
Sometimes strange things happen…like pumpkins and pine trees and palms…all in the same weekend. Is there a saying about “loving the liturgists and hating the liturgical faux pas”?
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Paradoxes of our ecclesiae: altars, women, and ad orientem
The practice of ad orientem presiding may look similar (and is similar) in different ecclesial communities, but the impetus and advocacy shape the conversation for and against in very different ways.
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Rehabilitating the 1998 Sacramentary
I personally believe that it is eminently possible, and indeed quite easy, to provide an alternative to the 2011 Roman Missal.
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Unity and Diversity & Patriarch Maximos IV
The Eastern Rites, and all others non-Roman rites should not be seen as “fringe-groups,” but as shining stars illuminating the ideals of a diverse Universal Church.
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Reading DW #5: Where Are We on the Eucharist?
Perhaps the most hopeful section of the document, the agreement on the Eucharist that has been reached by the dialogues over fifty years is nuanced, careful, and generous.