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The Darkness of Christmas

Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D. Notre Dame Center for Liturgy Editor, Oblation:  Liturgy and Evangelization Contact Author In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He...

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Memorial Service for Cody Unterseher: Rev. Maxwell Johnson’s Homily

Maxwell Johnson, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame Professor of Liturgical Studies Contact Author On May 2, 2012, the University of Notre Dame Department of Theology held a memorial service for Cody...

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“He is out of his mind:” Missing Out on Messianic Madness (Part I)

David. A. Pitt, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Liturgical and Sacramental Theology Loras College, Dubuque, IA Contact Author In countries where the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ...

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“Who are my mother and my brothers?” Missing Out on Messianic Madness (Part II)

David A. Pitt, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Liturgical and Sacramental Theology Loras College, Dubuque, IA Contact Author In 1851, Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright presented a paper to the Medical Convention of...

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Trinity Sunday: A Feast Celebrating Liturgy

Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D. Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy Editor, Oblation:  Catechesis, Liturgy, and the New Evangelization Editor, Church Life:  A Journal for the New Evangelization Contact...

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Charlie Gordon, C.S.C. and Fractio Verbi

We missed the last several weeks of Fr. Charlie’s homilies because we were away on holiday, as well as traveling back and forth from the North American Academy of Liturgy.   So, we wanted to include...

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Breaking Open the Word with Rev. Charles B. Gordon, C.S.C. (2nd and 3rd...

Rev. Charles B. Gordon, C.S.C. Co-Director, Garaventa Center Contact Author      2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle A We can learn from John’s integrity. As much as we long for acceptance, as much as...

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Breaking Open the Word with Rev. Charles B. Gordon, C.S.C.: The Feast of the...

Rev. Charles B. Gordon, C.S.C. Co-Director, Garaventa Center Contact Author   Presentation of the Lord  This Feast of the Presentation of the Lord is a celebration of that extraordinary moment of...

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Breaking Open the Word: Holy Week Edition

Rev. Charles B. Gordon, C.S.C. Co-Director, Garaventa Center Contact Author     Palm Sunday  “When, at Mass on Palm Sunday, the Passion of our Lord is read in parts, the congregation often takes the...

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Breaking Open the Word: The Season of Easter (Cycle A, Weeks 1-5)

Rev. Charles B. Gordon, C.S.C. Co-Director, Garaventa Center Contact Author     Easter Sunday The Sequence puts it well, “Death and life were locked together in a unique struggle.  Life’s captain died;...

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Jesus Pulls a Fast One

From a friend of the Center for Liturgy, Rick Becker, on attending Mass on 8/13/14: Jesus Pulls a Fast One What’s the take home here? For a clue, we can return to Matthew 18. The weekday Mass reading...

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My Good and Faithful Servant: the Gift of the Eucharist

Timothy J. Kenney ’14 MTS Candidate  Boston College School of Theology and Ministry This is the time of year when things begin to draw to a close, when the leaves on the trees have stopped being pretty...

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Prepare Ye the Way…for the Good Relativism

Jessica Keating, M.Div. Program Director, Human Dignity and Life Initiatives Contact Author For the past two Sundays, the Gospels have presented us with the figure of John. In the East he is known as...

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The Feast of the Holy Family: Not Just a Model

Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D. Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy Contact Author Those of us suspicious of the pious platitudes that too often make their home in Catholic homiletic practice know that...

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Preaching on Contemporary Events

Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D. Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy Contact Author Twice in the recent year, theologians and social media friends have been atwitter (pun intentional) over the lack of...

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Sermons in the Cemetery

Leonard DeLorenzo, Ph.D. Director, Notre Dame Vision and Student Engagement Contact Author     I like to spend time in cemeteries where the dead preach to me, where the sermon is always the same:...

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Opening God’s Word: God’s Nuptial Love

Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D. Director, Notre Dame Center for Liturgy Contact Author Editorial Note: This piece originally appeared in Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly–January 6, 2016 The image of marriage...

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