Tag: Liturgical Year
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Structural Confusion in Advent
PAUL INWOOD — Advent is a time when musicians can run into difficulties with their pastors. The problem lies in the structure of Advent itself.
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Easter Sunday, 2025
ED FOLEY — Yet no matter how many empty tombs confront us we baptized are assured that day that none of us are permanently stalled in any cemetery.
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Fourth Sunday in Lent, Cycle C – Old St. Patrick’s, 2025
ED FOLEY — May this Lenten journey be a necessary and welcome vision adjustment, to see the world and all its lost children not through the eyes of worldly intelligence, but instead through the eyes of Annie Dillard and a wise yet foolish God.
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Pope Francis decrees feast of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
EDITOR — September 5th will now mark the optional memorial of St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
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Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Cycle C, 2025 – OSP
ED FOLEY — On this MLK eve I wonder if this civil rights martyr would think that in this age, in this world, in this country, in this city the good wine is gone.
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Liturgy and Life in a Late Autumn Choir Practice
INGRID FISCHER — This year I am learning the longing gaze from afar. And everything else I carry within me in the way of biblical words and liturgical experiences will, I hope, help me to understand him more and more deeply…
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Brief Book Review: Mary and the Liturgical Year
NEIL XAVIER O’DONOGHUE — “Harmon provides readers with a survey of Mary’s role in the Church’s liturgical prayer from the earliest evidence through to our own day.”
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Brief Book Review: The Women’s Lectionary
“Ashley Wilcox urges preachers to take a year to focus on women in the Bible and feminine images of God.”
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February 2: “There was also a Prophet…” (Luke 2:36)
Candlemas also marks the death of a 20th-century prophet.