Category: Penance-Reconciliation
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Deaf Access to the Sacrament of Reconciliation: Past and Present
Reconciliation has historically been one of the most difficult sacraments for Deaf and hard-of-hearing Catholics to access and continues to be so.
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Young Scholars Bring New Questions and Multiple Disciplines to Bear on Sacramental Theology
Drone warfare, consumer culture, guilt-driven obedience, faith amidst a pluralistic world are among topics six fresh voices address in a growing collection of articles on sacramental-liturgical theology.
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Newest Issue of Liturgy: Confession & Reconciliation
From my Introduction to the first issue of Liturgy for 2019, which I had the pleasure of guest-editing:
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Penitential Liturgy
I watched it with interest, both because of the unusual nature of the gathering, and because I wondered what it might tell us about penitential celebrations generally.
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Is Penance a Problem for Lent?
Tim Gabrielli’s 2013 enlightened study on the issues facing adolescent celebration of the Sacrament of Confirmation, Confirmation, has the very fitting subtitle, “How a Sacrament of God’s Grace Became All about Us.” What is most intriguing about this subtitle is that it might easily be used to describe the sacrament of Penance, perhaps the most…
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The Covenant of Dust
We must turn from the covenant of sin and death to embrace the covenant of love and life that is offered to us in Jesus Christ.
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Liturgy Lines: Communal Reconciliation: The Second Rite
Such poor celebrations turn people away and deprive them of a wonderful opportunity to experience communal reconciliation which “shows more clearly the communal nature of penance”
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John Carroll’s Prayer for Government
We pray, Thee O Almighty and Eternal God! Who through Jesus Christ hast revealed Thy glory to all nations, to preserve the works of Thy mercy, that Thy Church, being spread through the whole world, may continue with unchanging faith in the confession of Thy Name. We pray Thee, who alone art good and holy,…
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Liturgy Lines: “The Extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy Draws to a Close”
What might parishes do around this time to mark the end of the Year of Jubilee?