Category: Quotes
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Latest Issue of Questions Liturgiques, Including Article on Schmemann
Alexander Schmemann published a tight corpus of writings focused on articulating the irreducible, eschatological content of the liturgy as revelatory of divine redemption, while continuously insisting that this fundamental tradition of the church is doubly crippled by ignorance of its eschatological nature and mistaken efforts to draw contemporary social concerns into its practice.
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Pope Francis and the RCIA
I was pleasantly surprised to see the signing of the senses quoted at length in the pope’s catechesis on Baptism.
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More beauty, less God?
“Cathedrals don’t bang on about God in cathedrals but they bang on about beauty and that’s why I love them.” –Simon Jenkins
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A New Cardinal in the Crossroads of America
On behalf of “all Hoosiers”–many blessings on our new Cardinal!
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Friars against the monks! Monks against the friars!
Sometimes you uncover an old dispute simmering under the unassuming cover of a Hesburgh Library volume…
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Lord, I am Not Worthy But Speak the Word Only
Lent is a time of return, that which was lost is found again and a new beginning is sought. Lost sheep are brought back to the fold.
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A Monk of Our Time
Thomas Merton OCSO, monk of the Abbey of Gethsemane in Kentucky, died on this date in 1968, twenty seven years to the day after he entered the Abbey in 1941.
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Thomas Merton and the Future of Liturgical Renewal
“Thomas Merton has it right, I think, when he suggests reimagining the priesthood and the liturgy, and moving beyond older forms, be they pre-conciliar or post-conciliar. Fluidity rather than fixity is needed for a liturgy that is founded on relationality and the active participation of the entire assembly. The new wine of Spirit simply does…