A Struggle for Holy Ground
Author | : C. Michael Weldon |
Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780814621554 |
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A Struggle for Holy Ground results from thirty-five interviews with participants in the 1989 consolidations of then parishes in Chicago's Englewood and two parishes from the San Francisco consolidations after its 1989 earthquake. It explores the roles of ritual and pastoral care in this sometimes highly conflicted situation through the lens of trauma and reconciliation. It proposes a series of new rites: group reconciliation, atonement, lament, leave-taking, memorial, and inauguration based on the experience of people most impacted by parish restructurings.