What many Priests no longer believe
Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi. Loosely translated: “The norm of prayer governs the norm of belief; the norm of belief governs the norm of living.” Many priests nowadays (including myself) are asking, “What if there’s deficient lex in the orandi? Won’t that diminish the credendi and vivendi?”
FEAR NOT with Father James Altman, Part 2 of 2
ChantWorks presents Fear Not. Host Linda Hoffman speaks with Father James Altman, part 2.
WARNING: The music at Mass may be harmful to your soul
Only the most myopic would deny that a kind of mushroom cloud has covered the Catholic Church for the past half-century. A small, but quite significant, part of that spiritual nuclear winter has been the profound collapse of Sacred Music.
FEAR NOT with Joseph Pearce
ChantWorks presents Fear Not. Host Linda Hoffman speaks with Joseph Pearce, author, editor, columnist, speaker, EWTN host, Director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute.
FEAR NOT with Father James Altman, Part 1 of 2
ChantWorks presents Fear Not. Host Linda Hoffman speaks with Father James Altman.
Parish Liturgy Committee meetings (almost) everywhere
SETTING: conference room at local parish
Dear Moses
Dear Moses, This is Sarah, down here in the desert. I want to tell you what is going on down here since you went up on the mountain. Some people are upset because we do not see you face to face and you seem to be worshipping God without us. It's as though you have...
The Chanted Word: Holy Trinity 2022
The Feast of the Holy Trinity, also know as Trinity Sunday, celebrates a central doctrine of Christianity and the greatest mystery of the Faith. That is that God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are united as three persons in one Godhead and share the same Divine Nature. It is celebrated on the first Sunday after Pentecost.
The Chanted Word: Holy Thursday 2022
Holy Thursday is the day on which Christians commemorate Jesus’s Last Supper. It’s the day before Good Friday, which marks Jesus’s crucifixion and death. Holy Thursday is the Thursday of Holy Week, which is the week before Easter, from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday.
FEAR NOT with Rachel Fulton Brown
ChantWorks presents Fear Not. Host Linda Hoffman speaks with Rachel Fulton Brown, associate professor of medieval European history at the University of Chicago.