BOOK REVIEW: Richard Vosko, Art and Architecture for Congregational Worship: The Search for a Common Ground

(Collegeville, Liturgical Press, 2019) 236 pages.

Richard Vosko was in Australia in February 2019 as keynote speaker at the National Liturgical Architecture and Art Council’s symposium Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also: Catholic Liturgical Heritage.  Those who met him there will be keen to read this development of his input.  Those who did not meet him have the opportunity to make his acquaintance through this book. Continue reading “BOOK REVIEW: Richard Vosko, Art and Architecture for Congregational Worship: The Search for a Common Ground”

RESTORATION OF STS PETER AND PAUL, BULIMBA

In 1926 when the church was built, the question Who celebrates the liturgy? might have elicited the response Christ celebrates the liturgy, that is, the priest acting ‘in persona Christi’.  Today, our response would be significantly different.  We would respond Christ celebrates the liturgy, that is, the whole Body of Christ consisting of all the baptised.  The full, conscious and active participation of all the faithful in the liturgical celebration is their right and duty by reason of their baptism (SC 14).

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