Cultivating soil and soul
Subtitle: twentieth-century Catholic agrarians embrace the liturgical movement
By: Michael J. Woods
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Collegeville, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780814662243
Notes: A Pueblo book.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Christ to the country, the country to Christ! Edwin V. O'Hara and the National Catholic Rural Life Conference ; Tilling the soil: the liturgical and rural life movements, 1920-1930 ; Sowing seeds: the liturgical and rural life movements, 1930-1940; title: Liturgy is God-conscious and land- conscious; title: Harvesting the first fruits: the liturgical and rural life movements, 1940-1950 ; The American Grail Movement and the NCRLC ; Sharing the bounty: the liturgical and rural life movements, 1950 to 1960; title: A liturgist shocks corn: the rural life movement at St. John's University. Virgil Michel's agrarian roots ; The institute for social study at St. John's ; Course in Catholic background and current social theory ; The cooperative movement and the liturgical movement ; Virgil Michel, the anti-urbanist ; A rural sacramentality; title: A year in the life of a rural parish. Advent and Christmas ; The Lenten season ; The Easter season ; Tempus ad annum ; With the blessing of the church; title: To restore all things in Christ! Religious vacation schools ; Farmers' retreats ; The formation of rural leaders ; Disseminating the rural life message ; Ars ruralis; title: Weaving together liturgy, culture, and justice. The broken world ; The new agrarianism of Wendell Berry ; Sacramentality and the Christian theological tradition ; Culture as constitutive of sacramentality; title: Saints of the soil: an eschatological epilogue. Looking forward while reaching back ; Monsignor George "Alfalfa" Hildner ; Father Paul Brinker-the tobacco priest; title: Diocese of Springfield, Illinois-spreading the rural faith ; Monsignor Joseph Gremillion-a southern pastor.