Category: 4_THE PLAZA
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If I Summoned Him and He Answered Me …
What if we too were allowed to ask, accuse, even bring charges against God? Allowed to do so in court and receive a different answer than Job? To bring a more comprehensive indictment than theological expertise has long considered conceivable?
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The messiness of November remembrances
The richness of the fall “Triduum” (All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints, All Souls) is just past us, but the confusion and the abundance continues this week.
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Jesus and the Christianauts (Theodicy Odyssey)
My own spiritual upbringing was filled with a number of versions of the Hera-Zeus chess match, only played out by Jesus (angry judge) and Mary (merciful referee).
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Paschal Love
No one joins a club whose motto is “Each of us looks out for No. 1.”
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Which Readings for All Saint’s Day in The Episcopal Church?
So, Episcopalians, what readings are you using tomorrow, and next Sunday?
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Days of Prayer
Last Sunday was observed as Mission Sunday. Yet this is not, strictly speaking, a liturgical observance. I have often seen observances such as this take center stage at Sunday liturgies in parishes and I have always felt that this was wrong. (I have nothing in particular against Mission Sunday, I only give it as a…
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Anything you can sing, I can sing … correcter.
Yes, the weekly song of the assembly needs a connection to the lections of the day. […] No, we cannot sing just anything at Mass.
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And Because I am Good for Nothing: Some Notes on the Capacity of the Faithful
Sixty years after the opening of the Council, it would be time to get serious about the fact that the baptized are not just to go “to church” on Sundays.
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From the Wires: Does the Reformed Mass betray Vatican II?
Retracing old ground is painstaking and often frustrating to do when only one side of the story is easily available on the internet. I have learned this the hard way. Thankfully, more and more Catholics who accept the conciliar reforms are taking notice of the dominance of traditionalist narratives on the web and are beginning to…