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My Advent Playlist
Spotify Playlist: Practicing patience with songs of the season of Advent.
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Pray Tell Poll: Christmas Parties?
Poll: Christmas parties during Advent?
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Gregorian Chant with Anthony Ruff: January 16-19
Study Gregorian Chant with expert specialist Fr. Anthony Ruff, OSB in 2019.
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Poll Results: Screens or Printed
Three-fourths prefer printed materials
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What Did Mary Know?
For us as liturgists and musicians, a principle to recall and observe in the preparation of Marian liturgies is that “Mary always stands with the saved.” I also like to state it in a less elegant manner: in the economy of salvation, there are ultimately only two categories … God and not-God.
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The Beatitudes: The Fall Issue of The Yale ISM Review, Now Live
What does it mean to be blessed? The fall issue of The Yale ISM Review, on the theme of the Beatitudes, explores some answers.
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The bizarre effects of Christmas bazaars
The rejection of a “mini” Lent theology of Advent (almost always without any sense of the history of the season) is growing alongside the tsunami of the retail Christmas.
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The One Word of God in Many Voices
The diversity of voices that proclaim our Scriptures in the liturgy are a kind of aural icon of the infinite fulness of the Word spoken in eternity.
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Sarum Sequence for the Third Sunday of Advent
Continuing my project of offering translations and versifications of sequences appearing in the Sarum rite marking the four Sundays of Advent.
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