A Catholic school becomes liturgical insofar as it understands learning as necessitating both wonder and desire. The school must be a contemplative space rather than imitating the frenetic quality of modern life.
Liturgy and Education, Part 7: The Art of Memory
Topics: Catholic education, Catholic imagination, education, liturgical formation, liturgy and education
Liturgy and Education, Part 3: Re-Education of Desire through Liturgy
In the first part of this series, I argued that schools are not the exclusive space where Catholics receive an education. Education is the cultivation of one’s humanity. For this reason, the parish is also an institution dedicated to education. Liturgical formation in the parish should invite all parishioners to an authentic Christian humanism.
Topics: liturgical music, signs, Liturgy Week, liturgical formation, liturgy and education
Liturgy and Education, Part 2: Celebrating Liturgies in Schools
Over the last three years, I have been working with the Archdiocese of San Francisco, addressing the quality of Eucharistic celebration in their schools. Almost universally, school leaders, especially at secondary institutions, recognize that all-school Masses are rarely occasions of prayer for faculty or students. Here are three questions for schools in this situation to consider.
Topics: Eucharist, Liturgy of the Hours, Liturgy Week, Catholic schools, liturgical formation, liturgy and education
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