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July 2019

July 24, 2019

Look Outside the Sacramental Celebration. It’s not a Distraction.

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 7 Sacraments are celebrations. That...

July 19, 2019

Learning about Sacramental Signs

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 6 I have lived through...

July 17, 2019

Emotions in Play: Liking or (Only) Loving the Sacraments

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 5 Catholics through the ages...

July 12, 2019

A Good Liturgical Celebration Speaks Clearly. Believing it is what’s hard.

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 4 In a good liturgical...

July 10, 2019

The Mystery that is Not Hidden in the Sacraments

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 3 A reflection on the...

July 05, 2019

Jesus, the Master at Life and the One I Meet in the Sacraments

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 2 The Church’s liturgy, her...

July 04, 2019

Remembering and Comparing: How Vatican II Changed The Liturgy

Celebrations of Grace: The Sacraments of the Catholic Church, Part 1 In the early 1960's I...

April 2019

April 19, 2019

CRUCIFY HIM! — What the Jews Did or Didn’t Do on Good Friday

On Good Friday I stood with the congregation in church playing my part in the...

March 2019

March 01, 2019

Church Bells Announcing a God who is Not Tame

Reminiscing theologically about bells because the parish of my childhood decided to fix the bells...

November 2018

November 30, 2018

Silence Honors a Work Well-Done and Makes Other Contributions to Liturgy

I was nearing the end of a presentation on the Mass to a Confirmation class....

September 2018

September 14, 2018

Ye Old Ember Days, a Good Fit for This Time of Prayer for Creation

This is a time of prayer for creation. (See this post on the World Day...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

World Day of Prayer for Creation

Tomorrow is the day Christians pray for the earth. Pope Francis designated September 1 as...

August 17, 2018

Kneeling, Sitting, Standing, Walking – We Use our Bodies in Catholic Liturgy

A Japanese foreign exchange student went to Sunday Mass with us and gave me most...

July 2018

July 13, 2018

Eye Contact for Lectors and the Assembly: Two Lessons Never Taught

Eye contact between lectors and members of the assembly is a relationship. As a trainer...

June 2018

June 15, 2018

A Renewal of Baptismal Promises in Horrible Times

In the Catholic Church we don’t re-Baptize, but we regularly renew our baptismal promises. In...

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