Today, living in the midst of ever-increasing environmental degradation and on a planet now clearly in peril, I have been pondering what one contemporary theologian has called God’s “deep incarnation.”
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Author: Teresa Berger
Teresa Berger is Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology at Yale. Her newest monograph, titled "@ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds" is published by Routledge (July 2017). Berger has also written extensively on liturgy and gender.
Feast of the Presentation: Anna’s Eloquence
…while Anna remains wordless in the Gospel according to Luke, in Christian visual art, she actually begins to speak, either via hand-gestures or via a scroll with words written on it.
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Silent Night?
Putting the “silent” back in Silent Night
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Solstice Rituals
Happy celebration of the Solstice, everyone.
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The Eucharist: A Moment of Deep Betrayal
Who, after all, ever comes to the eucharistic table without having betrayed what God calls us to be?
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Just in Time. And Welcome Indeed: A New “Mass of Welcome”
“I hope this Mass setting will serve as an engaging invitation to liturgical participation and that it will assist in proclaiming the truth that all are welcome at the table of Christ.”
Read moreWhen a Solemnity and a Scandal Fall on the Same Day
There are moments – and yesterday’s Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary was one of them – when the realities around us clash in exceedingly
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Of Dying and Birthing, and of Midwives for Both
There are startling similarities between the holy work of giving birth and the holy work of dying.
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Worship “Here in this Place”
From our place in the universe to our place in a sanctuary, how do we best name our place, in worship?
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In the Heart of the City, in the Heart of God
I wonder how the liturgical life of the Community of Jerusalem would speak to people in NYC, or LA, or Chicago.
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