Rita Ferrone gave a thought-provoking presentation this morning at the 25th International Congress of Societas Liturgica in Quebec, Canada. \u00a0One of the questions she raised stayed with me in particular, namely: HOW are rites formative?<\/p>\n
I wonder about that question especially in relation to claims by educators and\/or catechists (which Rita guided the audience through) that those to be formed — in our case: liturgically — are to be active subjects of such formation, “conscious and co-responsible.” \u00a0I cannot possibly be the only one who confronts many people in her daily life who would not be able to be such subjects, whether it’s an elderly relative suffering from dementia, a mentally disabled parishioner who lives in the streets, or a neuro-non-normative teenager. \u00a0What about liturgical formation for all those with complex, broken subject formations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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