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Liturgical Intensity
My desire for liturgy to end quickly is thoroughly incompatible with what we teach about Bright Week, which is the most radiant period of joyful liturgizing on our Church calendar, the only time of the year we leave the “holy gates” of the iconostasis open to symbolize our thanksgiving for the privilege to partake of…
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Non solum: The Number of Readings at the Easter Vigil
What would be “serious pastoral circumstances” for not using all seven readings at the Easter Vigil?
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Andrรฉ Heywood! 2 Weeks More for NCYC Applications
How many high-schoolers going into grades 9-12 have you invited to apply?
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The Significance of the New Irish Missal
It is to be hoped that this new edition of An Leabhar Aifrinn Rรณmhรกnach will encourage a new flowering of Irish culture. In fact, the evangelization of culture is one of the greatest challenges facing Christianity in contemporary Ireland.
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Scapegoating Liturgical Reform
The problem of secularization cannot be fixed by returning to an earlier age. Culturally, the world is a very different place than before the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
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Cardinal Sarah: Priests Don’t Have to Wash Women’s Feet
I’m confident that the vast, vast majority of bishops will use commonsense, follow the evangelical example of Pope Francis, and wash the feet of women next week.
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Ars Praedicandi: Why Lent?
Today, brothers and sisters, God is inviting us to become his shining lights, the givers and forgivers who have the courage the make friends out of enemies, to feed the poor and receive their riches in return, and to welcome the stranger and the sinner, even asking for their prayers.
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The Liturgy and the Court of Google
There are charitable ways to talk about liturgical abuse or poor taste online that donโt involve shaming. Catholics disagree all the time.
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Irish Missal Published
This is a unique publication, and is hugely significant not only for the Church in Ireland, but for all who cherish this culture and heritage, particularly the Irish language
