Category: Sacramental Theology
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Brief Book Review: Guide for Forming a Parish Bereavement Ministry
A concrete example of how to do liturgical/sacramental theology with the Church’s rites as a starting point, and how to incarnate that theology in the spiritual life of the parish and its members.
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Is the Eucharistic Revival a Liturgical Revival (Part 2)
My fundamental concern remains unchanged.
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Book Review: Intercultural Marriage
Theologically speaking, the process of interculturality is revelatory of the Church’s understanding of the sacramental union, which reconciles, heals, and unites the barriers created by differences.
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Amen Corner: The Fijian Meal Tradition
Could aspects of Fijian cultural meals be incorporated into the church’s eucharistic tradition?
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Brief Book Review: The Euchalogion Unveiled
“The volume…expands our understanding of the ‘mysteries’ of the Church by using older lists of what was considered a ‘sacrament.'”
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Brief Book Review: Living under Water
“Diverse, compelling, and filled with pastoral and ecumenical wisdom.”
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Brief Book Review: A Theology of the Sacraments
Kimbrough and McIntyre have created a fine book for study groups willing to engage with new music.
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Choose Your Poison: An Ecumenist’s Reflection on Catholic Fumblings Over Baptismal Formulas
My real point is that to justify ourselves by comparing our ideals with other traditions’ realities is and always has been a logical and rhetorical fallacy. Ideals always win out. But such wins get us nowhere.
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Touchless Holy Water Font?
Yikes. Someone, no doubt well-intentioned, got the idea to create a holy water font that pretty much wrecks the idea of recalling one’s baptism with holy water. There’s American ingenuity for you. Apparently you put your hand under it and it dispenses a few drops, like the automatic soap dispenser in public restrooms. No visible…