Let Us Pray?The Liturgical Revolution of the 1960's | Prof. Christopher Ruddy
The Thomistic Institute
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🗓️ 14 January 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This lecture was held at St. Gretrude's parish on October 9th, 2018. It was cosponsored by the Aquinas Society of Cincinnati and the Thomistic Institute. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/
About the event:
What is the liturgy? Why is liturgy so important? Why would would you reform the liturgy and how would you do it? - These are some of the fascinating questions that Dr. Ruddy (CUA) undertakes in his sweeping lecture.
Speaker Bio:
Christopher Ruddy is associate professor of systematic theology at The Catholic University of America. He was formerly associate professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and also taught at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Divinity School, he received his doctorate in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame.
His two books are titled The Local Church: Tillard and the Future of Catholic Ecclesiology and Tested in Every Way: The Catholic Priesthood in Today’s Church (both Herder & Herder). His articles and reviews have appeared in America, Christian Century, Commonweal, Ecclesiology, Heythrop Journal, Horizons, Irish Theological Quarterly, Josephinium Journal of Theology, Logos, Nova et Vetera, Origins, Theological Studies, The Thomist, and Worship. His theological interests include ecclesiology, Vatican II, the nouvelle théologie and ressourcement movements, and the relationship of Christianity and culture. New York natives, he and his wife, Deborah, have four sons.
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| 0:00.0 | When you speak about liturgy, you're always, in some ways, you know, treading on thin ice in some ways because Catholics care about liturgy, and they care about it very, very deeply. It's at the heart of our faith. |
| 0:16.0 | And so speaking about the liturgical revolutions and so on is a pretty big topic in some ways. |
| 0:23.4 | And as I was thinking about this and trying to think about what we'd say, |
| 0:28.5 | I thought of a line from a great Dominican priest. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm not just saying that because this is a Dominican parish, |
| 0:36.3 | but a man named Father Carlton Jones, |
| 0:40.6 | and he said once, he said God is always speaking. |
| 0:47.5 | God is always speaking. |
| 0:50.3 | And so as I was sitting down and I was working on this talk, |
| 0:53.8 | I got a flyer in the mail from my high school. |
| 0:58.7 | And it was saying in exchange for giving over your sort of current mailing address and so forth, |
| 1:05.2 | but they would send you a link to the recently digitized 60 years of yearbooks. |
| 1:13.6 | I had copies of my own yearbooks, but when I saw this, I was excited about it. |
| 1:21.6 | I was also looking for some distraction in the midst of preparing for this talk. |
| 1:25.6 | And so I looked up in this high school, my high school is called Archbishop Maloy High School. It's in Queens in New York City. It was 1,600 boys. Now it's 1,600 boys and girls. It's known for basketball and baseball and so on. And I graduated in 1989 from there. And my dad graduated in |
| 1:49.3 | 1963 from there. And so I said, I never saw his yearbook. So I'd go back and I looked at it. |
| 1:55.7 | And so I saw his senior photo. And then I said, well, what did he look like when he was a junior? |
| 1:59.4 | And so then I worked my way all the way back to his freshman homeroom picture. I was amazed just to see what |
| 2:05.0 | my dad looked like when he was 14 or whatever and so on. And so then wanting to kill some |
| 2:10.4 | more time, I started looking through these other things, the other yearbooks in that era. |
| 2:15.5 | And I said, wait, I'm speaking about 1968. Let me go look through some of those other yearbooks in that era. I said, wait, I'm speaking about 1968. |
| 2:19.5 | Let me go look through some of those other yearbooks. |
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