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Daily Archives: 29 March 2014
Dies Domini 7: The Heart of the Christian Life
The introduction to Dies Domini wraps up today with this section. I hope I haven’t appeared too hard on Pope John Paul thus far. It’s mainly that I don’t think the law-n-order approach was terribly effective when this document was … Continue reading
The Three
Over the years here (on this blog) and there (elsewhere in the Catholic blogosphere) we’ve discussed a good bit of liturgical music. The three judgments, introduced to most American church musicians in the 1972 document Music in Catholic Worship (MCW), … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgical Music, Liturgy
Tagged Music in Catholic Worship, Musicam Sacram, reform2, Sing to the Lord, three judgments
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Foreboding
Blogger Steve Skojec got a lot of attention for his Pope Francis skepticism this past Fall. I noticed on a blog aggregation site a link to this extended essay that kept him up half the night putting together. Look at … Continue reading
Posted in spirituality, The Blogosphere
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EG 126: The Spirit Works Through Popular Piety
Pope Francis, in Evangelii Gaudium 126, stresses again that God utilizes popular piety to inspire and urge us to evangelization: 126. Underlying popular piety, as a fruit of the inculturated Gospel, is an active evangelizing power which we must not underestimate: to … Continue reading
Catholic Sensibility 
Liturgical Improvisation, Falling in Love, and Four Wives
What do these three things have in common? It sounds like the kind of joke that would walk into a bar. But it’s the arc of parish life in Mount Carmel, Illinois. Think about it, then check this link to … Continue reading →