• “What We’re Reading”

    I had conflicting feelings of belonging: I belonged to God; but did I? What does it mean to be without grace, or schismatic? The way we employ our sacramental vocabulary inherited from late antiquity matters today, because ultimately, Christianity is about belonging to the communion of the Holy Spirit.

  • Re-Reading Sacrosanctum Concilium: Article 87

    Vatican website translation: 81 [sic]. In order that the divine office may be better and more perfectly prayed in existing circumstances, whether by priests or by other members of the Church, the sacred Council, carrying further the restoration already so happily begun by the Apostolic See, has seen fit to decree as follows concerning the…

  • Liturgy in Collegeville: From the Archives – Part XXV

    The committee stated that it did not agree with the principle of reciting all 150 Psalms weekly. The Roman liturgy no longer has this principle, and we would like more readings.

  • “What We’re Reading”

    A classic theological text on time and memory, plus two novels.

  • Still No Prefect at the Congregation for Divine Worship

    Maybe tomorrow, as I’ve said to myself every day for the past two months.

  • Nuns in the Hood: 25 Years of Doing Good

    “What the Lord put in our hearts,” said Sister Mary Margaret McKenzie, “was that the poor deserve to have their contemplatives.”

  • Earthquakes and Liturgy

    On Sunday in the Orthodox Church, we will commemorate the Great Earthquake in Constantinople in 740 CE. We will sing the following Kontakion: Deliver us all from upheavals, and from terrible afflictions caused by our sins, O Lord, and spare thy people whom Thou hast purchased with Thy blood, O Master! Do not deliver Thy…

  • Thomas Merton and the Future of Liturgical Renewal

    “Thomas Merton has it right, I think, when he suggests reimagining the priesthood and the liturgy, and moving beyond older forms, be they pre-conciliar or post-conciliar. Fluidity rather than fixity is needed for a liturgy that is founded on relationality and the active participation of the entire assembly. The new wine of Spirit simply does…

  • Judging custom

    Now that we’ve discussed how customs arise in liturgical history, let’s turn to the principles by which they’re evaluated (in their pre-canonical period). This post takes some of the debate in the comment threads as examples of how these conversations normally go in the process of evaluation.

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