Tag: Chris McDonnell
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Death of a Poet
There has to be poetry in our prayer, for it opens to us a whole new realm of experience, not just of our forming words with which we offer prayer, but of our being exposed to thought-provoking language that quietens us and makes us listen. Silence is the space between words
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Spirit and Freedom
The Spirit of Pentecost is within us as we walk our journey, offering us strength as we ask courageous questions.
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Meeting Eucharistic Need
Archbishop Bernard Longley of Birmingham, England, issues a pastoral letter seeking input for the best possible deployment of priests and deacons. A reader responds.
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Time for a pause
It is necessary carefully to choose language that helps rather than hinders and to be patient for the right time in which to make pertinent comment. Raising the temperature by intemperate words helps no one. In the present circumstance it will only serve to impede our experience of eucharistic praying.
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Manhattan
by Chris McDonnell
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Letter to the bishops of E&W
Pray Tell reader Chris McDonnell responds to the pastoral letter of the Bishops of England and Wales.
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No Turning Back
Pray Tell reader Chris McDonnell asks, “May I make a plea that in all our discussion and, at times, serious divergence of opinion, we maintain two important threads?”