The Council of Trent and the Second Vatican Council are nearly half a millennium apart, but, as Father Uwe Michael Lang points out, the liturgical focus of both highlights the importance of each.
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In this reprint from Liturgy, The Life of the Church, Dom Lambert Beauduin explains why prayer led by the Church’s hierarchy will always trump the private prayers of individuals.
For Father Thomas Kocik, among liturgical scholars influencing the Second Vatican Council, Liturgical Movement pioneer Dom Lambert Beauduin ranks as the source and summit.
In the humble job of opening doors and greeting folks, says Benedictine Brother Stanley Rother Wagner, the porter serves as a vital hinge in the Church’s mission to spread the Gospel.
John Grondelski cheers the Church’s increased interest in popular devotions but, he argues, much remains to be done to help secular souls see the transcendent in today’s flat world.
In reviewing Msgr. Francis Mannion’s Models of Heaven: Interpreting Life Everlasting, Daria Spezzano shows how Msgr.’s paradisal paradigms serve as signposts for us lost earthlings.
