BoredAgain Catholic
How the Mass Could
Save Your Life
Timothy P. O’Malley
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About the Author
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy in the McGrath Institute for Church Life. He teaches in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He researches in the areas of liturgy, catechesis, and Christian spirituality. He is the author of Liturgy and the New Evangelization: Practicing the Art of Self-Giving Love (Liturgical Press, 2014). He and his wife, Kara, live in South Bend, Indiana, and have one son.
Contents
Reverencing the Altar and Greeting the People
“That I May Come to the Altar of God”
“My Word … Shall Not Return to Me Void”
“When I Found Your Words, I Devoured Them”
“How Long Must I Carry Sorrow in My Soul”