The Season of Creation begins September 1. The issue is important every day.
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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.
Worship — and What Threatens It
Do we – and how do we — struggle to contain evil as we enter into God’s presence?
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Commemorating the Transverberation of St. Teresa of Avila
“If all you know about Teresa’s experience of having her heart pierced comes from Bernini’s famous statue The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, you are missing out.”
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The Order of Creation and the Order of the Liturgy
Human worshippers always come to worship (as to everything else in life) embodied, including the various ways in which each person is gendered.
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Looking Ahead: Celebrating the Nativity of St. John the Baptist
Here is to hoping that this year, the birth of John the Baptist will be celebrated on June 24th.
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“All You Have Created Rightly Gives You Praise” – and Today, Laments and Groans
…may one not have to acknowledge that the human-made acceleration of species extinction…is…also a decimation of a communion of worshippers that has been sounding God’s praises since long before humans joined in?
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Liturgy, Liturgical Studies, and the Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests
Odenthal asks what kind of “therapy” and healing might be available for traumatizing and/or traumatized liturgies.
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Holy Saturday: Grand Silence, or Great Struggle?
First things first: yes, I do know that I am writing within the Octave of Easter, at least for Western Christians, not in the middle
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March 25: Feast of God’s “Deep Incarnation”
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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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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