Category: Pastoral Theology
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Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary presents live-streamed lecture by Dr. Antonio Ramirez
EDITOR — Dr. Antonio Ramirez will present his lecture, entitled “Attune Your Soul: The Sacred Art of Listening for Ministry,” in person and online.
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Brief Book Review: Church of Our Granddaughters
TEVA REGULE — “This work speaks to the need for discernment when encountering tradition and its ongoing reception for today.”
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Podcasts: ACU’s Speaking of Liturgy
EDITOR — In her podcast, “How do we farewell the dead in the 21st century?” Samantha Wegner explores the uniqueness of the Christian funeral and the lesser-known Funeral Vigil.
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The ACU Centre for Liturgy bears fruit in Nigeria
EDITOR — The recently featured ACU Centre for Liturgy is offering an online program for lay liturgical ministers in Nigeria.
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Are the U.S. Bishops downplaying the Paschal Mystery?
RITA FERRONE — “If the bishops think that the concept of the Paschal Mystery doesn’t fit neatly into the Eucharistic piety that predated the Council, they are right.”
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Inclusive practice or linguistic nightmare?
EDITOR — “While some of these changes are not that dramatic or noticeable in English, introducing inclusive wording in languages such as Spanish, where nouns are either grammatically masculine or feminine, becomes quite obvious due to the novel alteration of noun endings.”
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Blessed by God … but not by the Church?
INGRID FISCHER — Can couples living in a relationship not accepted by the church receive a blessing? A tiny little signal from Rome meaning “Yes, but” could not be interpreted more differently across the churches in Europe, America and all continents. What can be said about it without uprooting the delicate seedling of hope? But…
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Baptismal Truth-Telling in the Order of Penance
JOHN T. KYLER — The opening prayer beautifully articulates this relationship: “Let us pray, brothers and sisters, that we, who through our sins were unmindful of the grace of Baptism, may now be restored to that grace through penance” (OP 9).
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Online Lecture by Rita Ferrone on Desiderio desideravi
Pope Francis approaches the liturgy, as he does the moral life, with an eye toward reawakening apostolic fervor.