SUNDAY LITANY: Tom Kreitzberg writes: Catching up on my blogreading, I see you’ve recently read Dies Domini. We discussed this letter in my Lay Dominican chapter last summer, and I was moved to construct a “Litany of the Day of the Lord” from the words and phrases of the Pope.

Re-reading it a year later, I think I’d drop the “First Day of that Cosmic Week” line (the phrase works in the letter but comes off a bit crystal-and-pantheism here), and find a livelier translation than, “In the midst of the church I will praise you.”

Otherwise, I think a rousing recitation of this or a similar litany at sunrise every Sunday would help make the Lord’s Day something Catholics might bother to keep.

Also, I found this through, I think, Father Tucker. It’s terrific. Poke around there a bit.