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With another year in the books, here is our annual reflection on the blessings and milestones of the past year, with hearts full for the many ways the Lord has provided and worked through our team for the past seven years.
We again take an opportunity to pause and reflect on the blessings of the past year, with deep gratitude to all that the Lord has accomplished in the past six years of our team’s work together!
In a year with many current projects currently in development construction to share, we again take the opportunity to reflect in gratitude on the many blessings of the last year.
As last year seemed to have passed more quickly than any before, we again take the opportunity to pause and reflect on the Lord’s Providence.
The University Catholic Center has a new crucifix that has been anticipated for a number of months during fundraising and its careful production in Germany by renowned woodcarving studio Albl Oberammergau.
On March 12, 2021, The Most Reverend Steven J. Raica, JCD, Bishop of the Diocese of Birmingham, joined the Very Reverend Justin L. Ward, STL and the people of St. Leo the Great Parish in Demopolis to solemnly dedicate their new altar and freshly renovated church.
On July 29, 2019, a tragic fire took what was once the largest wooden structures west of the Mississippi River, months shy of its 125th anniversary.
Last spring, St. Leo the Great Parish in Demopolis, AL embarked on plans for a full renovation of its small but stately nineteenth century neo-Gothic church
The proper reverence due the name of Jesus is something that that’s grown increasingly noticeable given the cultural dissonance from surging media consumption.
On Wednesday, September 9, Bishop Joe S. Vásquez blessed the site that will soon house a new church to replace one that burned down just a year prior.
With hearts full of gratitude, we take a moment to reflect on our second full year of serving the Church.
Most Catholics encounter regular challenges to the deep reflection the Church encourages before and throughout the liturgy.
The practice of Eucharistic worship of the Blessed Sacrament is intended to lead the faithful into a deeper participation in the paschal mystery of Christ in the liturgy.
When it comes to church design, how exactly should we understand ‘functional’? As Catholics, we believe that the material world is sacramental and deeply symbolic.
Many times an obvious and substantial facilities need is daunting, and can pose a challenge to making progress. While often there is reason to postpone any changes until they can be coordinated and integrated into a comprehensive plan, there are also situations when it might be prudent to consider taking incremental steps towards a larger goal, or even to split a project into phases.
It's an ancient and profound dialogue shared between the priest celebrant and the assembly in every Mass: the Sursum Corda, the original Latin words of the Mass meaning "Lift up your hearts", or "Hearts up!".
While Catholics joke about the sit-stand-kneel rhythm of the Mass that we often refer to as Catholic calisthenics, it's easy for us to get into a monotonous routine and lose sight of the beauty and wisdom of the Church's intent for liturgical postures and gestures.
Often times parish improvements are postponed until they can be pursued as part of a large project. Here are a few suggestions for thinking about areas of your parish campus that might be closer to a facelift than you think.
From time to time one stumbles on a rare liturgical gem – a beautiful church with a beautiful and very intentional liturgy and a wonderfully engaged parish community.
Throughout the course of Church history, the edifices built for worship have borne a sacred meaning that is inseparable from the faith and mystery celebrated within.
The concept that communion in the hand is the only or preferred form of reception for Catholics since Vatican II is mistaken.
to those who have been rightly taught that Vatican II in part sought to foster greater liturgical participation, entertaining the option of ad orientem today might indeed seem problematic. However, this ancient practice of the Church was never outlawed or changed by mandate.
There are few subjects that can divide Catholics as quickly as musical preference. But increasingly today, the idea of true worship is becoming a much sought-after ideal.
Building a traditional church today requires education and formation for all involved to move beyond under-informed, simplistic, and emotional preferences that often drive so many of our personal opinions on church architecture.
Church design approach can primarily be categorized into two schools of thought: imitating and elaborating on what has been done in the past, or reinventing.
The language of the architecture of a church building should be in harmony with the language of the Church.
Liturgy is public worship – the work of Christ and that of the Church, the Body of Christ.
This year has been a source of tremendous blessing. Here are a few highlights.