Tag: Paschal Mystery
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From Death to Life: Holy Week Liturgy
EDITOR — Follow the Lord on the Way to Jerusalem. Prepare for Holy Week with history and liturgical theology with Fr. Marco Benini. Part 1!
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Prepare for the Paschal Mystery with Tai Chi
EDITOR — “As we meet during the Holy Week, you will be invited to experience Lent (loosen), Good Friday (empty), and Easter (push) in the Tai Chi movements.”
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Book Review: Community as Church, Church as Community
“A church is often one of the few places where we experience the gathering and sustaining of community…Community is not easily found anymore in our landscapes.”
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Does Easter Ask Too Much…?
“Therefore, overcome with paschal joy, every land, every people exults in your praise and even the heavenly Powers, with the angelic hosts, sing together the unending hymn of your glory, as they acclaim…” So concludes every Easter Preface in the third edition of the Roman Missal, an ebullient departure from the more succinct conclusion of…
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It’s a Cold, Hard Frost this Paschal Mystery
The night that begins Christ’s passion is a great time to kill Easter flowers.
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Refresh my heart: Regreening creation and the human spirit
There’s nothing like a new infant to make you appreciate (also: sweat through) the Easter Vigil mass. My new daughter’s patroness and namesake, Hildegard of Bingen, draws a parallel between baptism and the “re-greening” of creation that occurs annually in spring (we’re still waiting on this in Minnesota).
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First things first
The Trinity, the Paschal Mystery, and music at Mass. How do they relate? Call me crazy, but I think each provides a key to the others.
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Three Judgments?
What is so important about the “three judgments” for choosing Mass music? They are not just rubrical adjustments, but foundations of the very purpose of Mass itself. A parish-wide and diocese-wide solution should be found.