Mary’s Sheen of Authenticity
O Lover, In an earlier post I wrote that all prayer is somehow response to what I called Your “seizing.” Variously exemplified, this dynamic also occurs in liturgy. More than in timeless themes of...
Monthly Archive: December 2023
What, Finally, Is Prayer?
O Lover, In a recent conversation a friend raised a question as old as faith: what is prayer? Although this is a query the answering of which finds a lifetime too brief a time,...
Music Yet Again
[Duruflé, Maurice (1902-86), Requiem (Op. 9, 1947); performance (with organ) by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton (cond.), Saint-Eustache, Paris.] O Lover, In the face of the darkness encroaching on Advent and...
The Unfolding of Advent
O Lover, Last week signaled the end of liturgical year #2023. We have now crossed into Advent (“coming” or “arrival”), a four-sunday season characterized by anticipation, waiting, silence, attentiveness, penitential preparation, and hope of...