As many Catholics know, the Second Vatican Council famously referred to the liturgy as the “source and summit of the Christian life.” And following the prompts of the great figures of the liturgical movement in the first half of the twentieth century, the Council Fathers called for a fuller, more conscious, and more active participation in the liturgy on the part of Catholics.
When life gets hard, when you’re contending with something that makes you scared or fearful or confused, how do you deal with it? Sooner or later, every one of us will be confronted with some monumental challenge in life.