Black Friday, Advent, and a Nativity Set
Timothy P. O'Malley offers a way to get ready for the season of Advent. Forget heading to the malls with the crowds on Black Friday and instead set up a Nativity Set.
2016
Domus Dei, Domus Ecclesiae: Sacred Space and the Liturgy
We can convey a lot by how we choose to decorate our homes. Growing up, guests to our home could learn (at least on a surface level) that my family was Catholic, that we were Mexican-American, and that we were huge Notre Dame football fa...
Lectio Divina with Middle Schoolers
Sami Burr learns to encounter Jesus Christ in Lectio Divina as a teacher. The teacher isn't just facilitating an activity. The teacher must also pray.
Teaching As If the Kingdom Has Come
Alex White on how the theology teacher can't be complacent as an educator. The theology teacher is to teach as if the kingdom of God itself has come.
Abstraction, Contemplation, and the Architectural Imagination
The Question: The Story at the Heart of Faith: Can abstraction call the person into the fullness of humanity? The Working Definitions: Contemplation/Contemplative Imagination: The total imagination involving all of our faculties: thinkin...
Incarnation and Re-Incarnation
Samantha Burr on the importance of theological education in becoming a good theology teacher. You can't know method alone. You have to know the subject.
Sacramental Sex?
Renee Roden reviews a talk by Donna Frietas at the University of Notre Dame on the hook-up culture at Catholic universities.
Pilgrimage and the Urgent Question of Faith
What happens when a pilgrimage becomes an urgent question? Leonard DeLorenzo thinks about this after his recent pilgrimage to Malta with Notre Dame.
Interview w/ Msgr. Timothy Verdon, Canon of Florence Cathedral
Msgr. Timothy Verdon, Canon of Florence Cathedral (i.e. "the Duomo), speaks on sacred architecture and the liturgy as Christianity's great work of art.
Silence and Decision 2016
What does a Christian do in a election when faced with a difficult decision? Renee Roden on Rodrigues' decision in Silence as a way of forming consciences.
Promising Too Much
Abbot Austin Murphy of St. Procopius Abbey preaches on the sin of placing too much hope in the promises of politics. We have a different hope.
The Politics of the Saints
On this feast of All Saints Day, we remember that the saints present to us a politics of praise that are the ultimate vocation of the human being.
A Transcendent Fall Classic
Sporting events are sometimes referred to as a sort of secular liturgy. From fan apparel to tailgating to the traditions surrounding the competition itself, one is invited to become a full participant in an unfolding drama with its...
A Trumpian Examination of Conscience
Renee Roden uses some of Donald Trump's more salacious comments during the election season as an opportunity to examine her own conscience.
The Word Made Beautiful: The Saint John's Bible
A few years ago the McGrath Institute for Church Life welcomed Donald Jackson, the visionary calligrapher commissioned by St. John’s University in Collegeville to create a hand-written illuminated Bible using techniques that date b...
10 Books for Adult Faith Formation: Part 4
Continuing our five-part follow-up to the essay "Forming Adults in Faith Through Fiction," here are the next ten recommended books for use in adult faith formation. 31) C. S. Lewis, The…