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  1. Learning to Behold

    | Madeline Running

    Our efforts to keep up with such a fast-paced world can result in a real poverty of presence - presence to one another, presence to ourselves, and presence to God. We are tempted to live in an idealistic future, in the days of our past, ...

  2. Summer Symposia Recap: Forming the Person as Icon

    | Christopher Gruslin

    In late June, the Center for Liturgy of the McGrath Institute for Church Life facilitated a summer symposium designed to creatively explore the senses of Scripture. Drawing from Sofia Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi's Catechesis of the Good ...

  3. Formed in Wonder, Love, and Praise

    | Carolyn Pirtle

    If you were to survey members of a Roman Catholic congregation as they exited the church after Sunday Mass by asking what facet of the celebration made the greatest impact on them that day for good or for ill, odds are high that many of ...

  4. Saying God Sacramentally

    | Renée D. Roden

    My God my bright abyss Into which all my longing will not go Once more I come to the edge of all I know And believing nothing believe in this: Christian Wiman begins his memoir of faith, My Bright Abyss, with the above poem. The short...

  5. A Process of Evangelization in San Miguel of Guatemala

    | Pierre Hegy

    This essay makes a contribution to the sociology of evangelism or evangelization by first clarifying the basic concepts of proselytism, church growth, conversion, and spiritual transformation. The essay will use the example of a Guatemal...

  6. A House Built on the Rock

    | Renée D. Roden

    Tucked into the eastern slope of Mount Zion is a beautiful church called St. Peter in Gallicantu (Peter at Cockcrow). It boasts beautiful, panoramic views of the city from its expansive grounds, which reveal the rolling contours of the J...

  7. An Act of Faith: a Parent's Experience of the Atrium

    | Claire Fyrqvist

    My first window into Catechesis of the Good Shepherd was actually as a senior in college, through an Atrium at a Montessori school.  I was surrounded by six, seven, and eight year olds busily coloring, arranging flowers, inviting fr...

  9. Editorial Musings: Sacramental Formation in a Secular Age

    | Jessica Keating Floyd

    In early 1950s Rome, two women—a biblical scholar and a Montessori-trained educator—began the great catechetical experiment known as Catechesis of the Good Shepherd. In a way, Sofia Cavalletti and Gianna Gobbi’s partner...

  11. The Ladder of Homiletics: 7 Steps to Effective Preaching, Part 1

    | Guerric DeBona, OSB

    Veteran homiletics teachers are asked a perennial question: what qualities make for great preaching? In 2016, the Kyle Lake Center for Effective Preaching at Baylor University’s George W. Truett Theological Seminary took a survey o...

  12. Time and America's Pastime: Baseball with My Dad

    | Jessica Keating Floyd

    Moments before the opening pitch of a Giants-Cardinals doubleheader at the Polo Grounds in the summer of 1934, my dad remembers Jerome “Dizzy” Dean strutting up and down the length of the Giants dugout. The scrappy Cardinals ...

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  14. Notre Dame Vision and the Art of Accompaniment

    | Raquel Falk

    As an undergraduate student imagining what life after college might hold, I joked more than once about wanting to be a professional Notre Dame Vision Mentor-in-Faith. Besides all of the laughter and play that came with the job, I discove...

  15. Notre Dame Vision: Reality Imagined

    | Samuel Bellafiore

    Reality ignites our imaginations more than possibility does. We can imagine amazing things but only when we first look at what is real and in front of us. Reality reveals possibility, and that is what Notre Dame Vision did to me. My mom ...

  17. Notre Dame Vision and the Miraculous Unlikely

    | Michael D. Mesterharm

    Our God is an unlikely one. I mean this not as an ontological argument (which would be above my pay grade) but as a small observation. To us, the small and the lost, the workings of our God can only rarely seem miraculous, and even when ...

  18. Nourishing the Imagination: Science & Religion

    | Jay Martin

    As anyone reading this article is likely to know already, the McGrath Institute for Church Life is dedicated to nourishing the Catholic imagination and renewing the Church. The past three years of my work in the MICL have made the…

    Martin Micl Crop

  19. Trinity Sunday: A Feast Celebrating Liturgy

    | Timothy P. O’Malley

    This weekend in the United States, we celebrate Trinity Sunday.  For the most part, our parishes will be inundated with a series of beige homilies, which celebrate not so much the mystery of the Triune God but the mathematical puzzl...

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