Katharine E. Harmon, Author at PrayTellBlog

Katharine E. Harmon is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Marian University in Indianapolis, IN, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in theology, liturgy, and lCatholic history. She is an organist and church musician at St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, IN. Katharine is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame's Ph.D. program in Liturgical Studies, and the author of There Were Also Many Women There: Lay Women in the Liturgical Movement in the United States, 1926-1959 (Liturgical Press, 2013).

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.

The “Restored Order” for Initiation: Is it a “Progressive” or a “Traditionalist” victory?

August 26, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Children Church Reform Initiation / RCIA

I had the pleasure of visiting with a former student recently, who has worked within the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois after her graduation. As she

The Cookie Monster Taught Me to Play the Catholic Top 40

July 25, 2019 Katharine E. Harmon Music: General

Perhaps there’s something good about music which only has a few words to remember.

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