Catholic Sensibility

Making the Switch I'll leave this old site up for awhile, but please visit the new site . Remember to bookmark, and all. I have a long...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 24 Vatican II's emphasis on the importance of the Liturgy of the Word: Sacred scripture is of the greatest imp...

My Liturgical Habitat Just for the heck of it, I thought I'd show you a few images of my parish church. Here's the exterior with T...

Like My Oak Trees ... I have the software downloaded and the new Catholic Sensibility site up, but I can't figure out how to make Wo...

All Souls: Good, Bad, Ugly, Etc. We had a good experience with a parish novelty last night: an evening Mass on All Souls with a reception ...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 23 More on general norms to be used in liturgical reform That sound tradition may be retained, and yet the way rem...

How To Improve Church Music III: What's A Pastor To Do A pastor has to hire a competent professional he can trust, who is close to agr...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 22 Vatican II details "general norms" mentioned in the last section: 1. Regulation of the sacred li...

Antarctic Chaplaincy I've often wondered about ministry in Antarctica. Do the various bases have chaplains? How are they staffed? Wh...

Multicultural Liturgy in Georgia From the Catholic News Hub , this Georgia Bulletin story about an annual archdicoesan multicultural Mas...

Flying Rings Around a Planet A good amount of ring posts on this week's Cassini site , including this image showing those ghostly ...

Finn in Star Our bishop gets a prominent editorial in today's Star . It's an appeal to the thinking voter. After a rough campaign ...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 21 Now we get to some of the principles laid down for actual liturgical reform in this subsection of chapter 1, en...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 20 Reading about the emerging media in Vatican II is always interesting. Here, the council bishops acknowledge tele...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 19 Tonight's post describes the role of the pastor, including yet another mention of active participation: Wit...

For All The Saints, Not Just Some Rock passes on a bit of Jesuit James Martin's New York Times editorial on "Saints That Weren...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 18 Read it, then discuss the two things priests are called to do. Priests, both secular and religious, who are al...

The Annual Check-Up I've avoided it in a lot more places than I did it, but I still think it's a good idea: an annual check-up wit...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 17 More on liturgical formation: In seminaries and houses of religious, clerics shall be given a liturgical forma...

On the Bookshelf After some heavy European history earlier this month, I had some fun this past weekend with Chris Roberson 's Paraga...

Liturgical Rumblings Talking with some colleagues over the past several days. You know: real world colleagues who have to deal with liturg...

The Armchair Liturgist: Auditions for Choir Members What do you think, liebchens? Good idea? Necessary idea? Pastoral disaster? I'll ...

Dark Rings and Smooth Operators Here's the latest full color image from Saturn , looking down on the dark side of the rings. The brig...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 16 More on the study of liturgy: The study of sacred liturgy is to be ranked among the compulsory and major cour...

Sacrosanctum Concilium 15 Short and sweet. Enjoy it; we don't get too many in the Vatican II department: Professors who are appointe...