The Feast of the Presentation of our Lord is the hinge between Christmas and the cross. It holds in tension life and death, light and darkness, the salvation Simeon sees in the child and the sword that will pierce Mary’s…
Category: Liturgy
In Whose Name Shall I Baptize You?
Seeing you, O Christ our God, drawing near to him in the river Jordan, John said Why are You who are without defilement come to your servant, O Lord? In whose name shall I baptize you? Of the Father? But you bear him in…
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Worship and Liturgical Symbolism
The following is excerpted from a letter Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith wrote concerning the liturgical reform happening in the Roman Church. His words are insightful and instructive. As you know, it is worship that enhances faith and its heroic realization…
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A Litany for the 10th Anniversary of 9/11
O God the Father, Creator of heaven and earth, Have mercy upon us. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy upon us. O God the Holy Spirit, Sanctifier of the faithful, Have mercy…
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A Litany for Japan
O God the Father, Creator of heaven and earth, Have mercy upon us. O God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy upon us. O God the Holy Spirit, Sanctifier of the faithful, Have mercy upon us. O holy,…
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Do I Understand Holy Week?
As I reflect on this past Holy Week and our Easter celebration I keep returning to the question, "Do I understand Holy Week?" The short answer, and perhaps the most honest, is no, not really. I know the story. I…
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Sacred Time
Technology has to some degree enabled humanity to subdue and manage the natural world, the world of space. This conquest has often come at the expense of time. We expend time in our effort to gain space and the things…
Interrupting the Silence 