Tag: Liturgical Spirituality
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We’ve got a runner!
On New Year’s Eve, I was at a Mass which featured the baptism of a toddler.
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My 2023 Advent ABC
I am going back to a simple ABC for this liturgical season. This ABC reminds me that Advent comes Before Christmas. It is not that the liturgical season itself – with its hymns, readings, colors and customs – does not voice this, beautifully. Rather, it is the context of our lived lives that gives my…
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Singing . . . and not singing
As a follow-up to Music in Catholic Worship, issued by the-then Bishops’ Committee on the Liturgy in 1972 and revised in 1983, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops promulgated Sing to the Lord in 2007. “By its very nature,” says this document in paragraph 2, “song has both an individual and a communal dimension. …
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Easter Egg in the Desert
We still have a long way to go in the Easter season.
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Give Me a Sign
Liturgical worship isn’t about directives. Liturgical worship is about discernment.
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Escaping Christmas
Let’s get to the desert.
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Come to the Feast
My daughter has a gift for calling us to the table to celebrate.
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Life is Like a Bunch of Crayons in your Clothes Dryer
In the midst of these things that crowd out the sounds of God’s love—Christ is ready for us—ready for us to see, to sing, and to circumvent the next disaster which befalls our laundry.
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Spirit Spirals
Wherever, whenever, with whatever we do it, the psalmist’s command to sing the Lord, and Paul’s command to sing to Lord must lead us toward a song renewed and nourished by a deep and abiding spirit spiraling both inward and outward, toward a profound and enduring understanding.