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After nearly two decades leading the Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Ralph Clingan retired at the end of June.
"The whole church needs fraternity, which must be present in all of our relationships, whether between lay people and priests ...
Archbishops around the world can provide by their example the fraternity and unity in diversity the entire Catholic Church ...
The Monday after Pentecost — now Mary, Mother of the Church — fits within nearly 60 years of liturgical reform, during which the Marian dimension has become better arranged and more profound.
It just won’t be the subject of my sermon.” “In my own experience, far more people have thanked me for not preaching a Mother’s Day sermon than have complained about it.” Mother’s Day was first ...
In churches where the Protestant liturgical revival has taken hold (TIME, Dec. 22, 1961), sermon themes are often closely related to seasons of the ecclesiastical year.
At St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Chicago, Christmas was marked seven years ago by what the pastor, the Rev. J. Stephen Bremer, calls “two rather nondescript services,” on Christmas Eve. Next ...
A Baptist church in Franklin, Va., has embarked on a 75-week sermon series designed to show the Bible is more than a collection of stand-alone books in the Old and New testaments. “One of the things I ...
The Washington Liturgical Mass Choir directed by Henry Herrera (at left) and Lynné Gray (at center in the foreground) sings during the 35th annual East of the River Revival, held this year at Mount ...
This authentic liturgical reform overcoming “discontinuities” and “ruptures” in the Church’s history, and renewing and restoring the “spiritual essence” of the Mass, the heart and font of our faith is ...