Passage to Pasch Revisiting the Catholic Sacraments

One of the great preoccupations of pastors in today's church is the preceived relevance or otherwise of the sacraments, in the lives of the People of God. Have our rituals and symbols become so minimalized or even atrophied as to have lost their meaning for the people?

Michael Drumm approaches the question of liturgy and sacrament from a fresh and uniquely Irish perspective. Drawing widely from the history of religion in Irelan, right back to pre-Christian times, and taking into account the findings of anthropology and sociology, he proposes that we revisit the ritual behaviour of our ancient peoples and, from their experience, draw out those elements of ritual which can help, along with our Christian tradition of sacramental theology, to revitalize our own contemporary celebrations.