Incarnate in Word and Song: Exploring Music in Liturgy and Life

"Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing," Jesus says at the beginning of his public ministry. The work of the divine is made present to those listeners in God's Word Made Flesh. Still today, this sort of encounter with Christ must be paramount in all activities of the church: liturgy, evangelization, catechesis, and conversion. In bringing music into conversation with liturgical preaching and our "living the Word" in our daily lives, we learn how we can better recognize Christ around us and help make his presence, his truth, and his love more tangible to all those who hear our voice and observe our acts of loving kindness.