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How Madison Avenue is sabotaging our worship
15 Nov 2019

How Madison Avenue is sabotaging our worship

by Nick Wagner | posted in: liturgy, preaching, technology | 0

When a young nurse named Sheila was asked about her religion, she said: I believe in God. I’m not a religious fanatic. I can’t remember the last time I went to church. My faith has carried me a long way. … Read More

storytelling, why sing?
Help your neophytes celebrate through the whole Easter season!
1 May 2019

Help your neophytes celebrate through the whole Easter season!

by Diana Macalintal | posted in: Easter, GIA Quarterly, preaching, reflections | 0

Fifth Sunday of Easter While everyone else is starting to look forward to summer, we’ve only come to the halfway point of Easter! Especially because Easter Sunday came so late this year, we might start to feel a bit like … Read More

mystagogical preaching, Neophytes
All language in the liturgy is ritual language
10 Apr 2019

All language in the liturgy is ritual language

by Nick Wagner | posted in: environment and art, liturgy, preaching, Uncategorized, Vatican II | 0

Many years ago, attended a regional theater matinée of Shakespeare’s Richard III. As I settled into my center seat, I heard a small commotion behind me. A bus-load of middle school students began filling in the back rows. Richard III … Read More

communication
Five reasons to embrace mystagogical preaching
9 Apr 2019

Five reasons to embrace mystagogical preaching

by Diana Macalintal | posted in: Easter, GIA Quarterly, preaching, reflections | 0

Second Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday) In Easter, the newly baptized begin to experience the world and their faith through the lens of the sacraments they have celebrated. They hone this new perception in the Sunday Masses of the … Read More

Imagination, Jan Michael Joncas
Love is the Law
24 Oct 2018

Love is the Law

by Diana Macalintal | posted in: GIA Quarterly, preaching, reflections | 0

Readings for the Thirty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Love God, and love your neighbor as yourself. How clearly Jesus distills the law. Yet, every so often our behavior might teach that love of God and neighbor don’t actually have to … Read More

stranger, vocation
Vocation is more than just priesthood
16 Apr 2018

Vocation is more than just priesthood

by Diana Macalintal | posted in: Christian initiation, Easter, GIA Quarterly, preaching | 0

Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter, Year B One unfortunate outcome of connecting the image of the Good Shepherd from today’s Gospel so heavily to priesthood is that the Fourth Sunday of Easter has at times been overshadowed by … Read More

Pope Benedict XVI, vocation
The urgency of the liturgy
20 Jan 2018

The urgency of the liturgy

by Diana Macalintal | posted in: GIA Quarterly, preaching, social justice | 2

Readings for the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B At the height of public protest in the United States against a travel ban that seemed to be targeting Muslim countries, the Lectionary readings that Sunday spoke of justice, mercy, … Read More

Annie Dillard
The courage to speak and the courage to be changed
17 Aug 2017

The courage to speak and the courage to be changed

by Diana Macalintal | posted in: GIA Quarterly, liturgy, news, preaching, social justice | 0

Readings for the 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A The healing given to the Canaanite woman’s daughter is certainly a key focus for today. Yet we have clues in the first reading and responsorial psalm that draw our attention … Read More

Charlottesville, Fulfilled in Your Hearing, hospitality, stranger
A plea to listen to the tiny whisper in the storm of racism
12 Aug 2017

A plea to listen to the tiny whisper in the storm of racism

by Diana Macalintal | posted in: news, preaching | 0

A plea in light of Charlottesville, Virginia, and the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year A   Dear bishops, priests, and deacons, and any who will be preaching this Sunday, I know you’ve worked hard already on your homily for … Read More

Charlottesville

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