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Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20 (2021)
Book Chapter
O'Loughlin, T. (2021). Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20. In Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019. Volume 22: Liturgica, Tractatus symboli; Orientalia; Critica et Philologica (31-38). Peeters

If our paradigm of the early churches is one of variety in practice preceding uniform ‘accepted’ forms, then we need to look again at many instances where early evidence for practice was by-passed as aberrant or sectarian. The sequence of eucharistic... Read More about Rethinking the Didache’s evidence for eucharistic practices in the light of the diversity of practice witnessed in Luke 22:17-20.

Liturgy, Inculturation and the reception of Sacrosanctum concilium 37-40: an on-going project for those who preside? (2020)
Journal Article
O'Loughlin, T. (2021). Liturgy, Inculturation and the reception of Sacrosanctum concilium 37-40: an on-going project for those who preside?. New Blackfriars, 102(1102), 967-978. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12614

We are only now, after more than half a century, uncovering the real significance of what the Second Vatican Council means for the Church. The time lapse in reception has many factors not least that distinctive shifts in emphasis take far longer be a... Read More about Liturgy, Inculturation and the reception of Sacrosanctum concilium 37-40: an on-going project for those who preside?.

The origins of an ecumenical church: links, borrowings, and inter-dependencies (2020)
Journal Article
O'Loughlin, T. (2020). The origins of an ecumenical church: links, borrowings, and inter-dependencies. Analogia, 9, 39-60

The creed's confession that we believe in 'one holy catholic church' should not simply be understood as a doctrinal datum, but as an understanding of the Spirit's work based in the experience of the early churches. The churches did not exist as discr... Read More about The origins of an ecumenical church: links, borrowings, and inter-dependencies.

Sharing the eucharistic insights of the ‘Star Wars Prayer’: a step on our pilgrim journey towards being one in Christ (2019)
Journal Article
O'Loughlin, T. (2019). Sharing the eucharistic insights of the ‘Star Wars Prayer’: a step on our pilgrim journey towards being one in Christ. One in Christ, 53(1), 46-63

Since our earliest days as disciples of Jesus of Nazareth the churches, local communities that came together in Jesus ’ name to praise the Father while sharing the cup and breaking the loaf, 1 have continually borrowed from one another. This borro... Read More about Sharing the eucharistic insights of the ‘Star Wars Prayer’: a step on our pilgrim journey towards being one in Christ.

Celebrating Palm Sunday with Matthew’s passion narrative (2019)
Journal Article
O’Loughlin, T. (2019). Celebrating Palm Sunday with Matthew’s passion narrative. Pastoral Review, 18

Twice each year, on Palm Sunday and Good Friday, the reading of the gospel becomes visibly a liturgical event in its own right. On these occasions the dramatic reading with several voices may replace the solitary tone of the deacon/priest. Yet in mos... Read More about Celebrating Palm Sunday with Matthew’s passion narrative.

Space matters (2018)
Journal Article
O 'Loughlin, T. (in press). Space matters. Anaphora,

Facing a liturgy-starved church: do we need to think afresh about the basics of ministry? (2018)
Journal Article
O'Loughlin, T. (2019). Facing a liturgy-starved church: do we need to think afresh about the basics of ministry?. New Blackfriars, 100(1086), 171-183. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12441

The Catholic Church cannot, at present, find sufficient clergy to staff its parishes and this is provoking a massive pastoral, and so a liturgical, reorganization. However, these changes are not primarily driven by the demography of the actual church... Read More about Facing a liturgy-starved church: do we need to think afresh about the basics of ministry?.

Joyful liturgies?: why? (2018)
Journal Article
Thomas, O. (2018). Joyful liturgies?: why?. Liturgy magazine, 43(3), 13-18