The 1960s brought many changes to American Catholicism. One change that often goes unnoticed is the dropping of the obligatory meat abstinence on all Fridays throughout the year. In the estimation of legendary sociologist Andrew...
Read MoreThis image appears in the 1941 “My Sunday Missal Explained,” Confraternity of the Precious Blood (Brooklyn), original copyright 1938. (This was my grandmother’s missal.) As a cradle Catholic raised in the...
Read MoreLectionary Reflections for Sunday, August 14, 2011 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 56:1, 6-7 Psalm 67:2-3, 5-6, 8 Romans 11:13-15, 29-32 Matthew 15:21-28 The processional hymn for our wedding nine years ago was “Gather...
Read MoreWhy do we have a tab/category on “Lectionary”? This category includes reflections by moral theologians on weekly lectionary readings and/or on the liturgy–with particular attention to moral dimensions to or...
Read MoreReflections for Sunday, June 26, 2011 Solemnity of Corpus Christi It sometimes seems odd to me that we celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus Christi (the Body of Christ) two weeks after Pentecost, after we have just celebrated the...
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