• Windows on the World

    Windows on the World

    How do our worship spaces inform our sense of creation?

  • Ars Praedicandi: 5th Sunday of Lent, Ed Foley

    Ars Praedicandi: 5th Sunday of Lent, Ed Foley

    So many folks in our own ambit are languishing in the darkness of some tomb hoping God or one of Godโ€™s people might speak or act in such a way that they hear the resounding invitation to come forth, leave the darkness behind, be unbound, and step into the light.

  • Baptized in the Ecclesial Faith

    Baptized in the Ecclesial Faith

    A 2021 survey of Austrian priests inquires whether we’ve followed through on the new (restored) paths to Christian initiation in this post-conciliar age. And what do our choices mean with regard to “remembering” our Baptism?

  • ChantGPT?

    ChantGPT?

    The potential for A.I. to compose everything from new chants to choral works to congregational song creates its own labyrinthine network of questions.

  • 60-Second Sermon: Fifth Sunday of Lent

    60-Second Sermon: Fifth Sunday of Lent

    Steve Greene reflects on the Gospel Reading (John 11:1-45) for the Fifth Sunday of Lent.

  • How Big is Too Big?

    How Big is Too Big?

    In May 1999 Pope St. John Paul II warned the Bishops of Ontario on their Their Ad Limina Visit, โ€œthe anonymity of the city cannot be allowed to enter our Eucharistic communities.โ€ I remembered this point recently when reading two news articles.ย  The first is about the dedication of the new St. Charles Borromeo Church,…

  • 60-Second Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Lent

    60-Second Sermon: Fourth Sunday of Lent

    Jenny O’Brien reflects on the Gospel Reading (John 9:1-41) for the Fourth Sunday of Lent.

  • The Beginning of Lent: An Anglican Muddle

    The Beginning of Lent: An Anglican Muddle

    I know this post is looking a bit backwards in time because it is focused on Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, but it seems by the First Sunday in Lent it’s time to move on to all the other questions circling around the season which seem more pertinent and urgent, and so it…

  • In This Issue: Worship 97 (April 2023)

    In This Issue: Worship 97 (April 2023)

    Featured articles discuss the Lutheran catechumenate, the adoration of the Cross, using gendered pronouns for Christ, and eucharistic corruption.


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