First things first.
All right, let's do this one last time -
First Things.
Welcome, friends.
My name is Mike Libunao-Macalintal (he/him), and I am a lay Catholic preacher, liturgist, and minister currently helping lead worship at Yale Divinity School.
The nature of my job has me creating and producing a lot of liturgy resources throughout the school year. In a lot of ways, this has been new and emerging work for me; it’s not something I had a lot of experience in beforehand. That said, trials by fire are excellent teachers.
This past year, I wanted to share more of my work with my Facebook community as a way of stretching outside my comfort zones. It’s one thing to share with students, but to put it out into the court of public, theological opinion is a vulnerability I’m learning to embrace.
That said, over the last few months, I’ve received a few requests to share some of what I’ve created, in the hopes that I could offer some resources for other liturgists, pastors, ministers, theologians, etc. — really anyone else who’d be interested in my work.
I write as a Filipino American lay Catholic minister, whose congregation is an ecumenical, largely Protestant community. With that in mind, whatever expectations or preconceived notions you may have of me, I can assure you, I will not meet them. Nor will I try to. My only hope is that my offerings maintain the integrity that I hold for myself, the devotion to the communities I consider myself accountable to, and the deep longing for the magis.
I don’t currently have a set schedule in mind of what I’ll publish - a lot right now will be a migration from my current WordPress platform onto here (with some exceptions). Whenever I deliver a sermon, you can expect the transcript to be published here within a week of its delivery. Other than that, we’ll let the Spirit do her thing.
In the meantime, I hope you consider subscribing, or at the very least reading.
I hope I can meet you where you are, wherever that may be.
To the delicate art of living.
