God does. Austin Walker explains how we’re each an open book, or should be, and to the extent that we comprehend the liturgy, it is also comprehending—and conforming—us to Christ.
And have a song for Mass. Adam Bartlett offers some practical ways for priests to sing the Eucharistic Prayers with less investment of time, talent, and treasure than many might think.
According to Richard Kaleb Hammond, as portals to the imagination, icons represent one of the more sublime forms of sacred art through which we can find more perfect unity with the divine.
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Thirteenth-century liturgical mystics, St. Gertrude and St. Mechtilde, says Kevin Magas, envision a profound integration of private devotion with the communal prayer of the Church.
In reviewing Altar and Church: Principles of Liturgy from Early Christianity by archaeologist Stefan Heid, Jacob Zepp unearths some fresh developments about the altar in Church history.
