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Words Matter

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Like a lot of guys, I played baseball in high school. I was what the local college scouts euphemistically called a “defensive specialist.” That was simply a nice way of saying I couldn’t hit. Not yet ready to give up the “glory days” of high school baseball about which Bruce Springsteen famously crooned, I attended Read More
Pope Benedict XVI

‘The Spirit of the Liturgy’

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As the Church in the United States progresses more deeply into the National Eucharistic Revival with its four invitations posed by the U.S. bishops, the quest to “reinvigorate worship” and engage in “robust faith formation” invites deacons in a particular way, as servants of the Sacred Mysteries, to understand the nature of the liturgy more Read More
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Preparation of the Gifts

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Speaking as a layman on behalf of my fellow laity, I think we are becoming more acquainted with deacons as we see more and more of them. We are also becoming more acquainted with what they do. Their ministry outside the Mass is more invisible to us, but inside the Mass we see them doing Read More
NORTH CAROLINA CORONAVIRUS

Mass and Our Mental Health

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Despite all the many COVID-19 challenges that continue to face the Church, it should be an encouragement to those of us in ministry that faith and, more specifically, Mass and Eucharist still matter to Catholics. Many feared not enough of the faithful would return to the pews once parishes were able to open their doors; Read More