Katharine E. Harmon, Author at PrayTellBlog

Katharine E. Harmon is Assistant Professor of Theology at Marian University in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she teaches undergraduate students and college seminarians. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame’s liturgical studies program, Harmon has contributed more than a dozen articles and chapters to the fields of liturgical studies and American Catholicism, and is the author of There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959 (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2013). She currently serves as Convener of the Modern Worship seminar of the North American Academy of Liturgy, and is Past President of the Catholic Academy of Liturgy. She resides in Indianapolis with her husband and two children, and is an accompanist for her home parish.

We’re Still Waiting for a Reformed Liturgy of the Hours

July 22, 2020 Katharine E. Harmon 5_ Liturgy of the Hours Pastoral Theology

I’m looking forward to some more hopeful future in which I might be able to join the Church again—maybe over a bowl of purréed mangos—in sanctifying the day.

What My Dreams are Telling Me about Covid-19

June 25, 2020 Katharine E. Harmon c_THEOLOGY Pastoral Theology

I, or at least my subconscious, is mightily struggling across this desert-sea of worship-less existence.

Saying “No” to the Spirit

May 22, 2020 Katharine E. Harmon c_THEOLOGY Lay Ministry Liturgical Spirituality Music: General

What have you had to say no to? Most recently, I had to say no to my ministry of church music.

Work and Prayer in Time of Pandemic

May 6, 2020 Katharine E. Harmon c_THEOLOGY Liturgical Spirituality

I’ve gotten some “work” done. But my prayer life is a wreck.

The Paschal Triduum that (almost) Wasn’t

March 24, 2020 Katharine E. Harmon Children c_THEOLOGY Liturgical Movement Liturgical Spirituality

My daughter’s fearlessness in the face of mud puddles gives us a new slant on the font, and those brave catechumens who (will eventually) plunge into those murky baptismal waters.

I’m not trying to Google “Extraordinary Form of the Mass”

February 7, 2020 Katharine E. Harmon Teaching Liturgy Technology and Worship

Where is the Ordinary Form of the Mass on social media? On Google? Anywhere, out there, on the vast and billowing waves of the world wide web?

Christ is Coming and He Looks like the Abominable Snowman!

December 20, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year

Neither the Incarnation nor the end times involve the bright and shiny Savior we expect.

Can we give up Christmas this Advent?

November 22, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year Secularism

The strife is o’er and the battle won…won by the dying mall—the elf on the shelf—and the peppermint mocha-flavored beverage I’m enjoying as I’m writing this.

The Bright Side of a Glass Half Empty

November 5, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year

I’m terrible at being a “the glass is half full!” kind of person. When I contemplate the world around me (or contemplate myself) my eyes

Creation, Day Six: Creativity, Hope, and Goodness

October 1, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Environment and Ecology

God chose not to stop with pterodactyls and turtles. God insisted on creating a mammal that not only had a mouth to feed, but a mouth that could talk back.

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