Where a Roman Catholic deacon ponders the world
One priest offers his perspective on the music many teenagers hear at youth liturgies: Will the kids today who are raised on a diet of Praise and Worship continue to practice the Faith when they are no longer of that age middle-aged people in the Church want to cater to? I don’t know. But my [...]
I recently experienced a growing trend in Catholic parishes, and wrote about it for this week’s column, “All Things New”: I have seen the writing on the wall. And I’m not impressed. A couple of Sundays ago, I found myself at a sparkling, sprawling parish in central Florida, in a church nave surrounded by stained [...]
With Memorial Day tomorrow, we marked the occasion today with a rousing verse of “America the Beautiful,” segueing into “God Bless America” after the final announcements, and before the final blessing. The flag was also dragged out from its place in the corner, and planted prominently beside the pulpit. (Despite that, we heard grumblings about [...]
That seems to be the gist of the new instruction on the use of the Extraordinary Form of the mass — a.k.a., the Latin mass — according to a new instruction released today. From the National Catholic Register: This morning, on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima, the Vatican published a long awaited Instruction on [...]
Last night, I attended the annual convocation for deacons in my diocese. During dinner, one of the deacons — a classmate of mine, in fact — told me about a particular problem he was having with his pastor. “If I’m not preaching,” he said, “he doesn’t want me to read the gospel. He wants the [...]
This annual gathering will take place this weekend at New York’s Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine. You can find out more about it right here. Earlier, I wrote about blessing houses. So why not bikes? Check out the video below.
Jesus, moved tonight to a temporary altar erected in the middle of our church. (Click to enlarge the pictures). This was accomplished with a beautiful candlelight processional around the darkened church, complete with Pange Lingua Gloriosi… Sing, my tongue, the Savior’s Glory, Of His flesh the myst’ry sing: Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed [...]
A young woman approached me before mass on Palm Sunday to ask that question. I replied, “Of course not. That’s fine.” She smiled sheepishly and said, “I know some priests don’t like it.” I reassured it that it was okay, and she later came to my communion station, knelt, and received on the tongue. [...]
At my parish in Queens. Masses were pretty full, but not as crowded as last year. I was there for four of the five weekend masses. (Served and preached at two, assisted with communion at the others.) Everything went beautifully — and none of the readers made the blunder I was anticipating: pronouncing “buffeted” as [...]
What can you do for the Easter Vigil in a place where it doesn’t get dark until 10:30 at night? From The Catholic Anchor, in Alaska: In an ancient Christian custom, the Catholic Church begins the celebration of Easter in the dark of night before – on Holy Saturday. But in a land famous for [...]
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