Deep in my heart, I believe that if God’s light were not stronger than all the depth of human iniquity that can surround people passing from this world to the next, it would not be worth blessing candles today.
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Author: Teresa Berger
Teresa Berger is a Professor of Liturgical Studies and Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology at Yale. She is the editor, most recently, of Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation (Liturgical Press, 2019), and author of @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (Routledge, 2018). She has also written extensively on liturgy and gender.
Christmas 2022: Of Cooks and Code-switches
What happened in Bethlehem, after all,turns all expectations of what constitutes normality on its head.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022
Why care about November 30 as “Remembrance Day for Lost Species”?
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September 1: Praying “In the Great Cathedral of Creation”
Rather, it is we – the human voices in this cosmic choir – who need to be reminded that we do not sing alone in praise of God.
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13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 1st Sunday post-Roe
I want to invite us all to a kind of liturgical “mapping” here.
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Of Tombs that are Empty, and Tombs that are Filling
So, on this Easter 2022, I will simply have to hold together the beautiful images from Queen Melisende’s Psalter, with the photo of a Ukrainian mother, Nadiya Trubchaninova, wailing at the coffin of her son Vadym.
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February 2: “There was also a Prophet…” (Luke 2:36)
Candlemas also marks the death of a 20th-century prophet.
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1 Star — 3 Wise Men — and 13.8 Billion Years of Worship
Ever since then, the Three Kings, coming from the East, have stood for a worship of Christ beyond all local and ethnic boundaries. But what if we draw the circle even wider?
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Eucharistic Non-Coherence
I am unsure that my severe case of eucharistic non-coherence can be cured any time soon.
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Mass: A Moment of Deep Betrayal
As the world faces yet another damning report of Catholic clergy sexual abuse of minors, I return once again to an intrinsic link between the Eucharist and betrayal that first comforted me some years ago.
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