Fr Mark Joseph Costello invites us to engage more actively with local communities when renovating churches so that the identity of the local church and the human desire for meaning in the modern world may be better expressed in the liturgical environment.
Rev Mark Joseph Costello OFMCap is Provincial minister of the Capuchin Province of St Joseph. He has worked extensively as a liturgical designer and consultant, has been published in various liturgical journals, and undertaken professional consultancy on liturgical spaces. He is a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy and Societas Liturgica.