A dialogue of two spiritual cultures based on the musical repertoire of the Buddhist and the Christian tradition – Schola Gregoriana Pragensis & Gjosan-rjú Tendai Sómjó(Buddhist Monks from Japan). Meaningful dialogue between religions is no doubt one of the most pressing challenges of the modern world. Developments over the past few years clearly confirm what
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It’s been (unusually) a relatively heavy week on this site this week. Let’s end the week with what I hope will be seen as a lighter moment. 3-year-old Samuel Jaramillo is becoming an internet sensation with his Eucharist. He neither reads nor writes, and is an ordinary lad who enjoys his computer games. He is
Can you change things that are copyright? There has been a lot of discussion here and here recently about whether a line in a hymn is understood to express Christian teaching well, or whether it is preferably altered to better express orthodox Christian teaching, and help those singing it and hearing it, to get the
Some people snuff out the Easter Candle today, Ascension Day, concluding the Easter Season today. Don’t!!! The Easter Candle is lit through the Day of Pentecost. It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty to react to such silliness with wrath, rage, and all the other responses that have been part of discussions on
On 4 December 1963, Pope Paul VI promulgated Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, one of the constitutions of the Second Vatican Council. This year marks the 50th anniversary of that watershed event. Central to that constitution is Mother Church earnestly desires that all the faithful should be led to that fully conscious
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I would like you to answer a question. In Stuart Townend and Keith Getty’s song In Christ alone there are the words: “Till on that cross as Jesus died, The wrath of God was satisfied” What do those words in that song mean? What is the plain sense of those words? I’m not asking you
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I was recently asked to write a short piece of about 300 words for the Fendalton Parish magazine. I was asked to write about connecting to liturgy – including for young people. This is what I wrote: Do we connect with liturgy? I think that we can connect through good liturgy done well – with
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In discussions around this site about the presiding style of Pope Francis, I am particularly taken by the term “noble simplicity”. In some ways that expresses well the worship style I hope to encourage with the talk in the video above. [If it feels too long at one sitting, watch it in four different helpings.]
