Easter and Mystagogy
The Green Season: Ordinary Time
Time in the Liturgy
Why Do Catholics Honor Christ as King?
The Easter Season (50 days between Easter Sunday and Pentecost) is also the season...
With a title like “Ordinary” Time, it might seem this long season in the...
St. Augustine of Hippo meditated on the meaning of time in his great Confessions,...
As a citizen of the United States, I have always heard the common comment...
The Easter Season (50 days between Easter Sunday and Pentecost) is also the season of mystagogy, the period of post-baptismal catechesis for the neophytes. The neophytes, formerly the elect, formerly the catechumens, formerly the inquirers—their title changes as they move through the liturgical process—received the Sacraments of Initiation at the Easter Vigil. They were...
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With a title like “Ordinary” Time, it might seem this long season in the Liturgical Year is somehow dull or inconsequential—but nothing could be further from the truth.
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St. Augustine of Hippo meditated on the meaning of time in his great Confessions, exploring the mystery of time as God lives in its eternal present in contrast to Augustine living in the past, the present and the future (Book Eleven). We may be more inclined to talk about time management, trying to control...
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Father Dylan Schrader talks about the nature and importance of sacrifice and its relationship with worship. God requires us to give both exterior and interior sacrifices. Jesus Christ gives us the ability at Mass to participate in his satisfactory sacrifice offered to God the Father at the cross. The Mass is a sacrifice in...
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Father Schrader speaks about the singular privledge that we, as creatures, have to consume consummate beauty Himself in the Holy Eucharist.
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A consideration of Mary's role in the Holy Mass. This was a talk give at Catholic Faith and Reason by Alex Weber that derived it's contents from Church encyclicals, scripture, and the writings of the early Church fathers.
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