Tag: Christmas
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Can we give up Christmas this Advent?
The strife is o’er and the battle won…won by the dying mall—the elf on the shelf—and the peppermint mocha-flavored beverage I’m enjoying as I’m writing this.
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Merry Divinization!
The Proper Chants of the Christmas Midnight Mass
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Unnecessary Impoverishments Part 5: Our Own War on Christmas
No matter how bright, or loud, or shiny, or sweet, or comfy we make a celebration that remains at the surface details, it will be a river “a mile wide and an inch deep.”
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Watching People Watch (Then Not Watch) the Eclipse: A Liturgical-Theological Reflection
While the natural-cosmic event was surely most captivating, I also discovered my inner-anthropologist kicking in to make the following observation about the before-and-after dynamics that I think sheds some light (pardon the pun) on liturgical time-keeping.
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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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“I worked so hard to be there”
A chance encounter puts a new frame around what liturgists and musicians do at Christmas.
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We Need a Little (Advent and) Christmas
I sincerely hope that we see future offerings of this sort from Phyllis Zagano. As her work has enriched the Church in history and ministry, so will it in matters of the spirit.
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Christmas Music from the Abbey
Liturgy and music nerds can start making plans for next year – it is never too early.