Category: Technology and Worship
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Unmute Yourself: The Prophetic Call of Zoom Worship Rubrics
“Unmute yourself.” “Be sure to mute yourself.” These phrases have become common pandemic parlance. We might even say they have become ritual rubrics, of a sort, for countless Zoom gatherings. I have begun to wonder if these rubrics, like many of our liturgies’ rubrics, are layered with meanings ripe for reflection. Liturgical rubrics provide guidelines…
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Windows in Walls
When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary. John O’Donohue I have been reflecting quite a bit in recent days about worship spaces. What is a “sanctuary” in these days when so many are worshiping virtually. One thing I have noticed is the conspicuous presence of windows…
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“I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord”
What have we learned in our time of eucharistic famine?
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Shaping Worship during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Creative, hope-filled resources from our friends at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship.
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Livestreamed Eucharist “Without the People” – Step Backward or Forward?
In a time of internet and of the coronavirus pandemic, we must completely rethink community.
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Mass Online with Full, Conscious, and Active Participation?
My experience made me realize that I had watched Masses many times online before as a spectator rather than a participant. Because I had access to Mass in person, TV and online masses felt optional, something “extra,” so I never had the urge to participate fully, consciously, and actively until now.
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I’m not trying to Google “Extraordinary Form of the Mass”
Where is the Ordinary Form of the Mass on social media? On Google? Anywhere, out there, on the vast and billowing waves of the world wide web?
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An Interview with Martin Kochanski Founder of Universalis Publishing
Last week I gave a short profile of Martin Kochanski. This week I am sharing some questions that I put to Martin on how he sees his contribution to the contemporary liturgical movement. Q. Do you consider yourself to be an unlikely leader of the liturgical movement?I hope I don’t sound presumptuous but I am not…
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An unlikely liturgist
In 1845 when John Henry Newman entered into full communion with the Catholic Church it was considered remarkable that he managed to figure out how to pray the breviary by himself, without the need to be initiated by an expert. This was a feat that was not repeated in the case of any of the…