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Unnecessary Impoverishments: The Psalter/Part 2 (The Entrance Rite)
We always overlook scripture at our own peril. Perhaps it would be to our benefit to be informed by the texts of the entrance antiphons and their psalms as well as those of the Lectionary when doing our music planning, and realize we don’t always have to be driven only by the Lectionary texts.
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Martin Luther on Renaissance Choral Polyphony
“Those who are not moved by this deserve to hear some dunghill poet or the music of swine.”
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Pope Benedict XVI on the Crisis of the Church, God, and the Liturgy
The deepest cause of the crisis that has upset the Church lies in the obscuring of the priority of God in the liturgy.
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Eucharist or Eucharistic?
Considering “Dinner Church”
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Blessings Animals — and Burying Them, Too?
Will there ever be a Christian form of burial for our beloved animals?
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Oscar Wilde on St. Francis of Assisi
“Indeed, that is the charm about Christ, when all is said: he is just like a work of art. He does not really teach one anything, but by being brought into his presence, one becomes something.”
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Why Pope Francis Chose the Name “Francis”
“Don’t forget the poor,” Cardinal Hummes said to the newly elected Cardinal Bergoglio.
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Martin Luther on Creation
Do you think God is sleeping on a pillow in heaven?
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Liturgy and Secularism: Utterly Human
Attempts to revise liturgy to address a given issue can redirect Liturgy and send the assembly to another place other than the Kingdom of God, when the assembly’s destiny is Christ’s table.
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