Category: Teaching Liturgy
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A Course on Pastoral Care of the Sick
The course seeks not only to ground students in the Catholic pastoral / theological tradition of care for those who are ill but also seeks in a special way to prepare pre-med and nursing students at Villanova for the gifts and challenges that await them in their chosen careers.
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A Course on Liturgy and Justice
In this course, we look at the implication of liturgical practice for the practice of justice in the various times and cultures of Christian experience. The course focuses on Western / North Atlantic Christianity. I would welcome suggestions for readings outside that ambit as well as comments on the course in general.
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Undergraduate Course: Christian Liturgy, Prayer, Sacrament
The course is designed to introduce students to fundamentals and provide an environment for thinking about liturgy as theology. Many students register for this course with no background in Christianity, and among the Christians in the course, we usually have a mixture of backgrounds.
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The So-Called Apostolic Tradition of St. Hippolytus of Rome
But, regardless of whence the text comes, what surprised me was how the students read the text. The first things they noticed were the words that sounded most like the present-day Roman Rite.
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Lavish Use of Symbols # 2: “My Mass Kit,” from “Wee Believers”
(Found at Amazon.com – with thanks to Colleen Tichich for sending this my way). Or, one could file this under “infantile use of symbols.” Note: I have nothing against children “playing Mass” — but the sheer ugliness of the ugliness (in my eyes) of this Mass kit is staggering. Are there better ones around?
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Teaching the Bible with liturgy
This semester I was teaching the first theology to two wonderful seminars at Notre Dame. We went bumpety-bump-bump through an incomplete but helpful set of tools for reading scripture critically, and managed a rough-and-ready historical overview that allowed them to at least place texts on a timeline and have a sense of what was happening…
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How Important is Pink, Anyway?
Why did the liturgical gods do this to us? Do we really need to have paraments and party outfits for two days in the liturgical calendar?
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The Postcommunion prayers of the Roman Missal: a new comparative analysis
A splendid new compilation and study of the postcommunion prayers in the Roman Missal will be useful to anyone interested in the liturgy as a source for theological reflection.
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What We’re Reading: The St. John’s MA in Liturgical Studies
As a part of comprehensive exams, the Liturgical Studies student is responsible for a rather extensive reading list.