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Advent IV with Saint Johnโs School of Theology
EDITOR — For the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Saint Johnโs Director of Ministerial Formation, Deepan Rajaratnam, Ph.D., leads us in a reflection on Mary and Elizabethโs meeting.
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Ars Praedicandi: Christmas Mass at Dawn, Ed Foley
ED FOLEY — This morning, we dare journeying beyond nostalgia and embrace the challenges and promise of incarnation, adoring the Christ child under the shadow of the cross.
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Our Gift to Christ
NICHOLAS DENYSENKO — It seems, however, that our song is all too often mere lip service to what we want to be true – that God sent Christ into the world to validate the political philosophies and kingdoms of our construction.
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Podcasts: ACU’s Speaking of Liturgy
EDITOR — Fr. Frank O’Loughlin reflects on his life as an academic, teacher and pastor in relation to the implementation of the liturgy in the years since the Second Vatican Council and makes some personal observations.
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Ars Praedicandi: Fourth Sunday of Advent, Ed Foley
ED FOLEY — As this Advent season comes to a close and we prepare to remember Jesusโ birth in history, we yet wait for the birth of peace, of safety, of respect, of care for most vulnerable, especially the children born and unborn.
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Advent III with Saint John’s School of Theology
EDITOR — Join Michael Patella, OSB of Saint Johnโs School of Theology and Seminary in prayer and reflection this Advent season.
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Let the Just One Descend
TIMOTHY BRUNK — “Rorate Caeliโ is the title of a traditional Catholic hymn for the season of Advent.
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Large Scale Eucharistic Concelebration & Synodality:ย What Is Appropriate Today?
PAUL TAYLOR — Two questions for consideration are:ย what does โthe good of the Christian faithfulโ require or suggest from the point of view of synodality, and should Eucharistic concelebrationย on a large scaleย still be considered preferable in a synodal context?
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Joint Lectionary Project
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — “For over 50 years parishes and communities in Australia, Ireland and New Zealand have listened to the scripture readings proclaimed in church from the same translations which are given in the Lectionary for Mass. Many of these books are now in a poor state and need replacing.”
