Series Recap: Liturgy and Education

The Notre Dame Center for Liturgy in the McGrath Institute for Church Life has long been a place where the Church’s leaders come together to plumb the depths of the liturgy and contemplate its role in the daily life and education of the Catholic Christian. For nearly fifty years, the Center for Liturgy has hosted an annual summer conference where scholars, clergy and religious, and pastoral ministers have considered together topics like liturgy and life, liturgical catechesis, liturgical music, and liturgy and the domestic church. The Liturgical Orientation of Catholic Education had been chosen for 2020’s conference theme; unfortunately, that event (like so many others) had to be cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the Center for Liturgy’s Academic Director Tim O’Malley offered a compelling vision of Catholic education rooted in the liturgy through a multi-part blog series published over the last year, discussing everything from Catholic school liturgies to curriculum design. Each installment of the series can be accessed through the links below, and provides a great deal of food for thought for Catholic educators and school administrators alike.

Series Recap: Liturgy and Education

Part 1: Why They Need Each Other

Part 2: Celebrating Liturgies in Schools

Part 3: Re-Education of Desire through Liturgy

Part 4: Celebrating Liturgies in the Family

Part 5: Liturgy and the Catholic School’s Curriculum

Part 6: Desiring Happiness

Part 7: The Art of Memory

Part 8: The Art of Understanding

Part 9: The Liturgical Curriculum of the Catholic School

Part 10: Developing a Liturgical Culture

Part 11: Liturgical Culture as a Healing Medicine

Learn more about the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy by visiting our website:

Featured image: New Skete, Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes by Sr. Patricia Reid, RSCJ; courtesy of Jim Forest via flickr; CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0