Tag: liturgy
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Mercy is the Problem
During my undergraduate days at The Catholic University of America, I was very fortunate to take an upper level christology course, “Jesus as the Christ,” from William Loewe, ordinary professor of historical and systematic theology. The course has stayed with me all these years since, even into my own doctoral studies. In one of the…
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Monoeucharistitis: The Long-Term Effects
Vatican II did not envision “liturgy” and “Sunday eucharist” to be identical terms.
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Lex Photographi, Lex Orandi
Increasingly, it seems to me, people are experiencing life in and through a screen, and an ever-decreasing size of screen at that.
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Seeing Snowfall, Beholding the Mass
Like how the snow loses its beauty to my Midwestern friends, I don’t always see the liturgy as the mysterium tremendum et fascinans.
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Team Spirit . . . and Spiritual Teams
I believe that the pervasiveness of the team/pack mentality, along with its inappropriate or disproportionate responses, qualifies as a “sign of our times” and, therefore, we can be guided by the wisdom of the Spirit, assess it critically, and live it out carefully, as Vatican II called us to: [. . .] the Church seeks…
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How a Lutheran Cardinal-Elector Might Vote
I received an email recently that rocked me to the core, first with laughter, and then with much more seriousness. It came from a Roman Catholic friend, inviting me to share “what a ‘Lutheran elector’ would be looking for in the next pope.” Is there some cardinal, anxious to hear a word from faithful voices…