Liturgy shapes our buildings and our buildings shape our liturgy

Liturgy shapes our buildings and our buildings shape our liturgy. Basic principles for designing or renovating churches are drawn from several of Vatican II’s documents on the liturgy, but we cannot build churches that are modeled on what we understood about the worshiping Church in years gone by because we are a different Church.

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What is certain is that our age knows of the existence of invisible things our forebears could not have imagined with any clarity… all created by God.

Saluting the chroniclers: Put 2024 on paper

A matter of faith: We believe in the year given to us by God. We marvel at its novelty, things that are not only new but “have never been.” It sounds so clean and hopeful, like a fresh blanket of snow.

St. Cloud’s newest priest, Father Jean-Claude Duncan: ‘Conversion is the process of trust we all must live daily’

Jean-Claude Duncan was ordained to the priesthood on Dec. 9 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Cloud. He said of his faith journey, “My story might be atypical, but it is nothing in comparison to the work of God in the lives of each of us every day. Conversion is the process of trust we all must live daily.”