Here’s how this week’s arts and culture column begins:
The online Catholic journal One Peter Five recently ran a 1966 essay by Catholic writer Ida Friederike Görres (1901-1971), translated and with an introduction by Jennifer S. Bryson.
When does a person have a capacity for liturgy? Görres asked: a question at least as relevant today as it was 60 years ago.
She responded, in part:
- When he considers the worship of God to be an essential, necessary, irreplaceable, and central component of his faith and his religious existence: at least as important as serving others.
READ THE WHOLE PIECE HERE.
This piece is such an uplift. Thank you, once again, Heather.
I’m so grateful you ran this essay. I missed at least four months of daily masses due to a pretty extensive operation followed by after-care facilities. Upon my return, it was a Tuesday, several parishioners commented on my return, welcomed me back. Since then, on difficult mornings, I remember those kind words and tell myself that I’ve got to be there for them, we have to be there for each other. We are so much more than the sum of our individual selves, more in strength, more in faith, more in what the holy Catholic Church is and must be.
Excellent! Thank you Heather!
Yes! We have to be there for each other–even if we don’t know each other, or know each other very well…I had a lovely email from Jennifer Bryson, who painstakingly translated Ida Görres’ German…she reported that this week Cluny Media released the new English translation of “The Church in the Flesh,” another work by Ida Görres.
Here is a short book trailer video about it:
https://youtu.be/QxWFQARtZrg
Thank you, all. I never know what is going to appeal to people…and am often surprised.