Rev. Kurt Belsole, O.S.B. is a Benedictine monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and Director of Liturgical Formation at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He studied at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute at Sant’Anselmo in Rome and has worked in the sacred liturgy since 1984. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on Joy in Lent: Gaudium in Chapter 49 of the Regula Benedicti.
He has concentrated his study on the liturgical movement that preceded Vatican II and formed the background of Sacrosanctum concilium, the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy of the Second Vatican Council. Consequently, he understands the liturgy as a theological reality into which the members of the mystical body of Christ are baptized and in which they live, and move, and have their being.
The contents of this website, intended for use as parish bulletin inserts, are meant to provide an accessible theological background the celebration of the Catholic liturgy. Other liturgical reflections are tailored more to theological reflection on the liturgical season or the hymns of the Liturgy of the Hours.
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