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Liturgy Lines: Liturgical New Year Resolutions
…Perhaps this might be a good time for us to make some liturgical new year resolutions too.
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In This Issue: Yale ISM Review, December 2016
Bach, the Magi, and the Grinch…
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Liturgy and Patience
Patience is not a substitute for the pursuit of justice and compassion in the world. It is a complement to that pursuit, borne up always by the gracious God who seeks to bring to completion the good work that he has begun.
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What does a Hanukkah video mean to a Christian liturgist?
This was tonight’s Maccabeats Hanukkah video because tonight I attempted latkes for the first time (they’re good!). But also, it weaves together the meaning of food, family, and faith in a way that I find beautiful and admirable.
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Pope Francis Christmas Eve Homily
“Let us allow the Child in the manger to challenge us, but let us also allow ourselves to be challenged by the children of today’s world…”
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A Hymn for Christmas
Suitable for the Christmas Vigil Mass with its lengthy genealogy of Jesus demonstrating a theological interpretation of Israel’s history in three epochs — rising from Abraham (patriarch) to David (monarch), falling to the nadir of the destruction of the Davidic monarchy during the Babylonian captivity and then rising and surpassing the first era in Jesus…
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Do You Hate Christmas Presents?
All I want is the joy of the sparrows. I’d like to choose peace—I’d like to choose kindness—I’d like to choose hope. It is my choice to bring those gifts to my Christmas tree.
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MA in Liturgical Music at St. John’s Graduate School of Theology
It’s the most integrated program in the U.S. – music plus liturgy plus real-world ministry. We are the only Catholic masters program in music accredited by the Association of Theological Schools.
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