Muslim Call to Prayer will sound in Minneapolis Streets

2023-04-15T05:36:15-06:00

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Kneeling Through the Communion Rite: Now I Get It

Last updated on: April 15, 2023 at 5:36 am By Jack Hartjes

Why do we kneel during the Communion Rite? A small change in liturgical procedure at my parish church stimulates a reengagement with the meaning of the posture of kneeling. I’ve also written about postures in the liturgy here. I’m thinking now not of whether we stand or kneel while receiving Communion but of kneeling in our pews throughout the Communion Rite. That is the new thing that my parish is doing. Previously we sat until the usher got to... Read more

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2022-08-16T15:16:19-06:00

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Anthony Annett Applies Catholic Social Teaching to Economics of Rich and Poor

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 3:16 pm By Jack Hartjes

Virtue and economics go together in the work of Anthony Annett. In an age that hasn’t gotten past the neoliberal economics and skyrocketing inequality of recent years, that’s a radical thought. Annett recently published Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy. The book is the fruit of his Catholic faith, studies in philosophy, and work in the field of economics. It will be the impetus for future posts. Annett refers throughout the book to Catholic teaching, but,... Read more

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2022-04-24T06:34:16-06:00

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The Nicene Creed: Thinking with the Bishop Barron Lectures – The First Three Words

Last updated on: April 24, 2022 at 6:34 am By Jack Hartjes

My parish, St. Raphael’s in Springfield, Minnesota, has begun an adult education course on the Nicene Creed. We are listening to and discussing a series of video lectures by Bishop Robert Barron. (From Word on Fire: The Creed) The bishop’s first talk took us all the way through the first three words of the Nicene Creed. There was enough material there for some serious thought. The Nicene Creed begins I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven... Read more

The Creed

2022-08-16T15:23:23-06:00

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The Eye of a needle and the Man who would Earn Eternal Life

Last updated on: August 16, 2022 at 3:23 pm By Jack Hartjes

Two individuals ask Jesus the same question. Two straightforward answers are given, but they are miles apart from each other. First we hear: Love God and neighbor.” Then we get: “Follow the commandments.” But when Jesus gets down to his usual way of teaching – through parable and parabolic saying, the message is the same. In these two incidents we have two of Jesus most iconic utterances — the parable of the Good Samaritan and the saying about the Eye... Read more

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2022-08-17T05:43:23-06:00

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Righteousness – In Luke It’s More than Being on the Right Side

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 5:43 am By Jack Hartjes

A massacre in the Temple and a fatal tower collapse – stories, or maybe rumors. In Chapter 13 Luke’s Gospel starts sounding a bit like 21st century USA. Some people, convinced of their own righteousness, accost Jesus with a story that has righteous anger written all over it. Pilate, the Roman governor, has ordered the massacre of several Galileans while they were offering sacrifices in the Temple. Luke doesn’t tell us whether the story is true or not. What little... Read more

Politics and Religion

2022-08-17T05:47:43-06:00

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A Literal Cross Waiting for Those who Join Jesus’ Crew

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 5:47 am By Jack Hartjes

A quote from William Stringfellow, Dissenter in a Great Society illustrates how hard it is for the Cross to penetrate our personal theologies and our lives: Let the Church, they [we?] say, remain pure and undefiled. Let the Church, at least, be one place left where men can contemplate their God, devote themselves to ‘spiritual’ things, and get away from conflict and dissension. Let the Church be a shrine of peace of mind and positive thinking, of the blessed assurance... Read more

2022-08-17T05:53:03-06:00

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The Rich Fool and the Rent We Pay for Our Place on Earth

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 5:53 am By Jack Hartjes

We remember Jesus’ words near the beginning of Chapter 12 in Luke’s Gospel: “Do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.” And again at the end: “Do not worry about your life and what you will eat, or about your body and what you will wear…. Notice how the flowers grow. They do not toil or spin….” But between these two irenic trains of thought, like between two slices of bread, Luke sandwiches a story that is... Read more

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2022-08-17T05:53:47-06:00

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While Debt Sinks Nations, Some Hear Jesus’ Call for Jubilee

Last updated on: August 17, 2022 at 5:53 am By Jack Hartjes

At Mass on the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, I paid special attention to the reading of the Gospel from Luke. For churches, like mine, who use the common lectionary, the Gospel selection features Jesus at the beginning of his public ministry. In the synagogue at Nazareth he was handed a scroll of the prophet Isaiah. He read a passage, set the scroll down, and said, in essence, “This is a time when everyone who is in debt gets to... Read more

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