Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Ryan N.S. Topping

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The tabernacle and the feast

The Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or a parish community. - Paul VI (Mysterium Fidei, 68) Remember way back to Easter? If you...

The grammar of worship

Photo: Sketch of St. Dunstan's Basilica, Charlottetown, PEI by Heinz Klassen. Ever read an email that made you wince? I don’t mean because of off-colour jokes but because of grammar—such as when you see, “Its...

The art of building

Anyone who, like me, was moved by this perception at the time of the Liturgical Movement on the eve of the Second Vatican Council can only stand, deeply sorrowing, before the very ruins...

Is beauty in the eye of the Beholder?

College professors sometimes have too much time on their hands. While digging around in the crypt of an old medieval library in Oxford, I discovered an ancient forgotten manuscript. Here is what I can...

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