Arbeit Macht Frei, or Ora et Labora
Lessons from a Trappist Monastery
Jesus said to them: “I have come into this world so that a sentence may fall upon it, that those who are blind should see, and those who see should become blind. If you were blind, you would not be guilty. It is because you protest, ‘We can see clearly,’ that you cannot be rid of your guilt.”
Ordained in 2011, Father Friel served as Parochial Vicar at Saint Anselm Church in Northeast Philly before earning a doctorate in liturgical theology at The Catholic University of America. He presently serves as Vocation Director for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.—(Read full biography).
A Solemn Pontifical Mass will be offered in Philadelphia on September 14, 2017
Catholics with disabilities have a right to participate in the sacraments as fully as other members of the local ecclesial community.
This vision of the Church’s relationship with Latin is quite different from the perspective held by many post-conciliar liturgists.
A lunch-time conversation at Sacred Music Colloquium 2017 in St. Paul, MN
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