ON THE COVER:  "In this issue, we focus on music ministry and where it leads us" (Inside ML, page 2).

From Inside ML: Each year when we craft the music-focus issue of ML, I use liturgical music as something of a thematic guide. This year, I struggled with the choice of what piece of music could fulfill that role, challenge and inspire our writers, and build connections within the issue. Ultimately I settled on "How Can I Keep from Singing?" This song has always seemed to pose a question in affirmation, a nearly rhetorical question in the face of God's goodness. Today, though, I see friends and colleagues in ministry, my brothers and sisters in Christ, whose song has been nearly silenced. They have indeed been kept from singing, the song in their hearts crushed, at times by a clerical whim. (More)

FEATURES

Unspeakable hope 
Virgil C. Funk 
Transcending the rational

Let's get the passion back! Reclaiming our vocation as ministers of music 
David Haas 
Music ministry in perspective

His eye is on the sparrow 
Ada Simpson 
Heaven help us

My life flows on in endless song … with a little help from my friends
Fred Moleck 
Singing in good company

DEPARTMENTS

Inside ML / Donna M. Cole
 

Worship Times / Todd Flowerday
 

Liturgy Formation: Late Summer Ordinary Time 2009 / Kay Murdy, Darren M. Henson
 

The Word Alive / Anne Louise Bannon
 

Sung Prayer / David Haas
 

Keeping the Faith / Leisa Anslinger
 

At the Table of the Word / Bruce Janiga
 

Moving Rite Along / Ada Simpson
 

Sacred Space / Mary Patricia Storms
 

Bridge Work / Ron Raab
 

Bulletin Insert: Simple Catholic Weddings / Paul Turner
 

Bulletin Insert: "N. our Bishop" / Paul Turner

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