Prayer and Practice in the American Catholic Community

by Chinnici, Joseph P.

• ISBN13: 9781570753466
• ISBN10: 1570753466
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

This volume offers glimpses of how practicing faith, living a life of prayer, and finding a way in a new land come together in forming the American Catholic experience. From a 1792 manual on devotion to the Sacred Heart, through a 1910 passion play in the West, to a 1965 street re-enactment of the stations of the cross, the reader can see changing styles of prayer and a living tradition renewing itself.

Author Biography

Joseph P. Chinnici, OFM, is professor of church history at Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley and a former provincial minister of the Franciscan Friars Angelyn Dries, OSF, is professor of religious studies at Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Christopher J. Kauffman
Acknowledgments	xvii
General Introduction	xxi
Joseph P. Chinnici
Angelyn Dries
Part 1 FOUNDATIONS: 1785--1865
Introduction	1	(3)
Handing on the Faith: The Catechetical Tradition, 1785-93	4	(2)
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 1792	6	(6)
Sunday Obligation without a Priest, 1798	12	(1)
Confraternal Prayer, 1805	13	(4)
Ecclesiastical Discipline and Community Formation, 1810	17	(1)
Early Rites of Passage, 1826	18	(3)
The First Council of Baltimore, 1829	21	(2)
Sunday Observance in Protestant and Catholic America, 1840	23	(3)
The Story of a Conversion, 1845-54	26	(2)
A Popular Image of the Church, 1846	28	(1)
The Practice of Retreat, 1846	29	(3)
A Bishop's Interior Life, 1850	32	(3)
Pastoral on the Immaculate Conception, 1854	35	(3)
A Model of Sanctity, 1857	38	(4)
The Sacramental: Universal Access to the Holy, 1858	42	(3)
The Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Peace, 1860	45	(3)
The Practice of Lenten Penance, 1862	48	(3)
Praying for Peace during the Civil War, 1863	51	(3)
Prayer and Charity during the Civil War, 1865	54	(5)
Part 2 CONSTRUCTION OF AN AMERICAN CATHOLIC IDENTITY: 1866--1917
Introduction	55	(4)
The Work of the Association of the Perpetual Rosary, 1866	59	(3)
Promotion of Uniformity of Discipline, 1866	62	(1)
``History of the Sodalities,'' 1866	63	(2)
Sunday Morning at St. Stephen's, New York, 1868	65	(4)
Devotional Life in the Gilded Age, 1870-85	69	(2)
Prayer Life in a Rural Parish, 1870-1900	71	(3)
A Pastoral Letter on the Sacred Heart, 1873	74	(2)
An Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart, 1874	76	(2)
Using a Sacramental, 1876-1917	78	(4)
A Missionary Model of Holiness, 1880-1900	82	(2)
An American Model of Holiness, 1883	84	(4)
The Choice of a Way of Life, 1883	88	(2)
Catechisms and Prayer Books, 1884	90	(3)
A Native American Rite of Passage, 1884	93	(1)
The Religious Meaning of Mortification, 1888	94	(2)
Appeal to the Charitable on Behalf of the Colored Missions, 1890	96	(4)
The Use of Sacred Images, 1892	100	(3)
The Promotion of Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament, 1895	103	(4)
Litany for the Conversion of America, 1908	107	(2)
The Drama of the Passion Unfolds in the West, 1910	109	(4)
A Visit to the Blessed Sacrament, 1916	113	(5)
Part 3 THE ERA OF CATHOLIC ACTION: 1918--45
Introduction	115	(3)
Postwar Social and Spiritual Reconstruction, 1919	118	(6)
The Spiritual Retreat for Women, 1922	124	(2)
The Apostolate of the Choir Singer, 1923	126	(2)
The Example of the Saints, 1925	128	(1)
The Meaning of Suffering, 1927	129	(2)
A Geography of Prayer, 1927	131	(2)
A View from the Outside, 1928	133	(2)
The Popularity of the Liturgical Movement, 1928	135	(3)
Devotions in Troubled Times, 1930	138	(4)
The Practice of Frequent Communion, 1930	142	(4)
Learning to Pray by Doing, 1930	146	(2)
Roman Catholicism -- a Liberal Appraisal, 1931	148	(2)
The Liturgy and Social Reconstruction, 1935	150	(2)
The Spiritual Foundations of Catholic Action, 1935	152	(4)
A New Social Catholicism, 1936	156	(3)
Cardinal Mundelein Extols Frances Cabrini as a ``Real Christian Heroine,'' 1938	159	(3)
The Way of the Cross, 1939	162	(2)
A Student Plan for Catholic Action, 1941	164	(5)
The Divine Ideal of Holiness, 1942	169	(5)
``A Surge to the New Testament,'' 1943	174	(2)
A Program for the Christian Family, 1944-45	176	(9)
Part 4 FRUITION OF EARLY REFORMS: 1946--79
Introduction	181	(4)
A Postwar Revival, 1945	185	(7)
Mary, Model of a Woman's Spirituality, 1949	192	(2)
Katherine Burton Reflects on Her Conversion, 1949	194	(3)
Grandma Tinley Reads from the Bible, 1950	197	(2)
Enthronement of the Sacred Heart in the Home, 1950s	199	(6)
The Mystical Body and the Mass, 1951	205	(4)
Patrick Peyton Explains the Rosary, 1951	209	(4)
The U.S. Catholic Bishops Publish National Regulations on Fast and Abstinence, 1951	213	(2)
Why Catholics Read the Bible, 1952	215	(3)
A New American Ritual, 1952-54	218	(4)
Fulton J. Sheen's Television Chalk Talks on Reparation, 1953	222	(3)
Catholics as Practical Secularists, 1953	225	(3)
The Parish Is Our Family, 1953	228	(3)
Women's Apostolic Spirituality, 1956	231	(3)
The Christian Family Movement and the Mystical Body, 1957	234	(3)
Mission Circles Tabulate Their Work, 1959	237	(2)
Making Community Prayer More Liturgical, 1965	239	(3)
An Early Survey on Liturgical Change, 1964	242	(4)
The Way of the Cross Moves to the Streets, 1965	246	(4)
The Traumas of Change, 1965	250	(3)
A Postconciliar Piety Void? 1966	253	(5)
Richmond Synod's Directives on Ecumenism, 1966	258	(2)
A New Approach to Penance, 1966	260	(3)
Latin Americans' Request to Update the Family Rosary Crusade, 1966	263	(4)
The Birth of Catholic Pentecostalism, 1967-70	267	(3)
The House of Prayer Movement, 1969	270	(3)
Revitalizing Contemplative Prayer, 1969	273	(3)
The Renewal of the Retreat Movement, 1973	276	(4)
The Distribution of the Eucharist, 1976	280	(2)
The U.S. Bishops Introduce the Theme of the International Eucharistic Congress, 1976	282	(3)
Spiritual Sources Gathered from Mystics of East and West, 1977	285	(3)
The Sisters of St. Agnes Compile a Creed, 1979	288	(3)
Index	291