Clare Schwantes

  • Pilgrims of Hope: a lighter footprint through liturgy

    Celebrations now integrate natural materials like water, flowers and stones, with some communities worshipping outdoors under trees. These gestures revive the sense of creation as the Church’s first cathedral, linking worship directly to the earth.

    Pilgrims of Hope: a lighter footprint through liturgy
  • Liturgy as festival: 
Communal experience in a fragmented world

    In a culture of division, the Church’s liturgy is countercultural. It proclaims joy, unity and sacred purpose through communal acts of worship that defy isolation and remind us we belong to something—and Someone—greater.

    Liturgy as festival: 
Communal experience in a fragmented world

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