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Preaching as Liturgical Art: Part I
LUCAS CHRISTENSEN — The point of the image is encounter. This sacred art is meant not merely to instruct the faithful (pace Gregory the Great), but it facilitates communion. This is true of all the liturgical arts—they are all forming an encompassing, diachronic and synchronic image of heavenly worship.
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Pope Francis decrees feast of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
EDITOR — September 5th will now mark the optional memorial of St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
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Does the Sensus Fidelium include the tune?
MICHAEL O’CONNOR — When the priest and people sang the preface dialogue, it was sung faithfully to the notation found in the missal; this was particularly noticeable to me because it is not what I am now used to.
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Brief Book Review: Cultural Catholics
TIMOTHY BRUNK — Cultural Catholics is for readers who want to know more about those who attend Mass less frequently than once per month.
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“O Lord, Open My Lips” – Part 1: Reform of the Reform of the Reform
ANTHONY RUFF — The monks of Saint John’s Abbey have just completed a two-week trial run of a revised Liturgy of the Hours. Monks positively inhabit the Office, so this experiment felt something like a family moving into a new house in another town.
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Brief Book Review: When Prophets Preach
MELINDA QUIVIK — Augustine calls preachers to embrace the preachers’ role in conveying faith in its salvific, social, and civil capacities which means addressing real world problems that affect political matters.
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Remembering Lorraine Brugh
EDITOR — Beloved teacher, mentor, theologian, and musician, Lorraine Brugh, died on January 25, 2025.
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‘For I was Hungry’: A Testimonial to USAID
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — The values I had learned as the grandson of immigrants who lived in poverty and in my native Orthodox Church – to honor human dignity and obey the Gospel imperative to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit and heal the sick, and tend to the oppressed (Mt. 25:31-46) – I saw…
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Working in the Vineyard: Mexican American Catholic College
EDITOR — MACC specializes in training a variety of people in the Catholic Church who can benefit from the bilingual and bicultural approach to ministry in the church community.
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