Think Medieval Lent Was Tough?
Chase Padusniak takes a realistic look at medieval Lenten and Carnival practices.
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God Is Friendship
Nathaniel Peters celebrates Aelred of Rievaulx's unique contribution to Christian theology.
Advent's Binding of Isaac
Kristen Drahos explains Advent's sacrifice of money and riches.
You Gotta Confront Who You Are!
Travis Lacy, ND PhD Candidate in Systematic Theology, confronts the unsettling reality of monastic prayer.
A Priest for James Carroll
Joshua J. Whitfield, theologian and Pastoral Administrator, describes what the abuse scandal looks like from the inside.
The Spiritual Desert Isn't Optional
Joshua J. Whitfield, theologian and Pastoral Administrator, looks for a preaching that can resound in our desertified spiritual landscape.
There's No Relation Between Preaching and Theology
John Cavadini, Director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life, scrutinizes Augustine's sermons to make a crucial point about theology's enterprise.
The Sociology of a Superb Sermon
Christian Smith, ND William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, covers three basic things that can go a long way in improving sermons.
Liturgy and Slaughter in the Book of Revelation
Francesca Murphy, ND Professor of Systematic Theology, details the seven components for any theology formed by the Book of Revelation.
The Liturgy is the Easter Story's Proper Setting
Fr. Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor, ND Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, follows Doubting Thomas back into the liturgical community.
Good Friday's Silence Speaks
Timothy O’Malley, Director of the ND Center for Liturgy, attentively listens to the silence of Good Friday.
Out of Our Mortal Depths
Anne Horcher, ND English major and intern for the ND Center for Liturgy, interprets Christina Rossetti's "De Profundis" for Passiontide.
The Festival Fast of the Annunciation
Tamely, frail body, abstain today; todayMy soul eats twice, Christ hither and away.She sees him man, so like God made in this,That of them both a circle emblem is,Whose first and last concur; this doubtful dayOf feast or fast, Christ cam...
The Liturgy Is for (Little) Kids
Timothy O'Malley, Director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, on why we should encourage (little) kids in church.
Advent Flesh?
Paul Griffiths, theologian and author of many books, applies the arguments of his new book "Christian Flesh" to the Advent season.
Remembering Creation Through the Saturday Sabbath
Fr. Matthew Dallman, pastor of the Parish of Tazewell County, recommends taking the Sabbath to contemplate the Lord through his wondrous works of creation.
The Month of Mary and Music
Carolyn Pirtle, ND Center for Liturgy Program Director & composer of liturgical music, celebrates the Month of Mary with a Spotify playlist with liner notes.
Being Liturgical
Timothy P. O'Malley, Director of the University of Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, on the kind of formation that is essential to the post-modern age.
Lead Us Not into Temptation
Timothy O'Malley on the great temptations of power for those in the Church and the medicines of Lent.
Petrine Primacy: Who Can Speak on Behalf of the Orthodox Church?
John Panteleimon Manoussakis probes the chief problem for the Orthodox in their dialogue with Rome.
Black Bodies, Kneeling, and the Liturgy
Eric T. Styles, Rector of Carroll Hall at the University of Notre Dame, puts Colin Kaepernick's kneeling within a liturgical and Girardian perspective.
Summer Symposia 2017: Reading the Bible Liturgically
Among contemporary Catholic evangelization programs, you often hear about the importance of the Scriptures. You hear that a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is mediated through our reading of the Bible both privately and in groups...
Can Liturgy Heal a Secular Age?
Timothy P. O'Malley on how liturgy can be healing of a secular age. But only if we understand secularity and ritual well.
Can We Get Lent Wrong?
Timothy O'Malley on the various ways that we can get Lent wrong.
5 Lenten Practices that Aren't Giving Up Chocolate
With Ash Wednesday now come and gone, Catholics everywhere embark on their journey of Lenten disciplines. Lenten penitence can quickly begin to feel rote. While there is still great spiritual benefit in denying ourselves dessert or Netfl...
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...
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...
Henri de Lubac and the Mystical Body of Christ
The Church on earth is the visible manifestation of Christ’s love that is enfleshed between each of her members. St. Jerome described this incarnation of love in his famous phrase Corpus Christi ecclesia est, quae vinculo stringitu...
Why Chant is Good for Children
My three year old son is a regular Mass-goer. Aware of his very short attention span, we make sure to sit in the front each and every Sunday. He loves when there is singing, especially chant. He loves elaborate processions. He loves ince...
The Liturgy: Work of the Holy Trinity
It is well known that the reforms of the liturgy associated with Vatican II had as their goal greater participation on the part of all. Many things changed in the external celebration of the rites designed to facilitate this, and those c...