I talked about The Prodigal Church on the @firstthingsmag podcast with @mark_bauerlein. How do we respond to the situation then-Father Ratzinger foresaw five decades ago--a smaller, "more spiritual" Church? Listen to the conversation here: https://t.co/AS48UAT2dt
— Brandon McGinley (@brandonmcg) January 5, 2021
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An excerpt from my book, The Prodigal Church, on Dylan vs. Lennon, the inescapability of service and worship, competing secular liturgies, and a vision for liturgical parish life beyond the Mass. https://t.co/oYwO0EbeXw
— Brandon McGinley (@brandonmcg) December 4, 2020
Liturgy unites us with our fellow Catholics through space and time. We hear the same readings at Mass as our brothers and sisters in Tokyo or the terrorized Church in Nigeria. We pray the same Gloria and Sanctus and Agnus Dei that Christians have prayed for centuries, even if the language and musical settings have changed. And most importantly, in the Mass we share in the same Body and Blood of Christ, the victim of Calvary whose sacrifice unites all who take up their crosses and follow him.
A false identification of the patriarchate of Rome with the Church. Not all Catholics have the same readings or even the same liturgy every Sunday. And his is just a transformation of our "identity" in Christ into a sort of political identity which will serve political purposes. A remnant of Latin ecclesial imperialism.
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