Teresa Berger, Author at PrayTellBlog

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.

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 1st Sunday post-Roe

June 27, 2022 Teresa Berger 5_

I want to invite us all to a kind of liturgical “mapping” here.

Of Tombs that are Empty, and Tombs that are Filling

April 18, 2022 Teresa Berger Saints / Mary

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.

February 2: “There was also a Prophet…” (Luke 2:36)

February 2, 2022 Teresa Berger Liturgical year Saints / Mary

Candlemas also marks the death of a 20th-century prophet.

1 Star — 3 Wise Men — and 13.8 Billion Years of Worship

January 6, 2022 Teresa Berger Liturgical Spirituality

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?

Eucharistic Non-Coherence

November 21, 2021 Teresa Berger BCDW / USCCB Eucharist

I am unsure that my severe case of eucharistic non-coherence can be cured any time soon.

Mass: A Moment of Deep Betrayal

October 5, 2021 Teresa Berger Eucharist Liturgical Spirituality

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.

Holy Water — Contactless

August 16, 2021 Teresa Berger Devotions and Sacramentals

I have really, really missed the regular availability of holy water. I was therefore glad – as well as somewhat bemused — to find a COVID-attentive holy water dispenser when I went to Mass earlier today, in a Gothic Cathedral no less.

The Annunciation of the Lord: And Became Water?

March 23, 2021 Teresa Berger Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year

But even more than God becoming human and 78% H2O as a newborn, the Incarnation is also about God becoming cosmic dust, and about God becoming genetic kin to all that is, since humans share with all that exists on planet earth a common genetic ancestry.

March 3, 2021: Celebrating 1,700 Years of Sundays “Off”

February 25, 2021 Teresa Berger Liturgical Spirituality

Sunday for us must be more than a private, leisure-filled, home-spa kind of day. Rather, the holy day of Sunday really is about a radical de-centering of the self, for the sake of re-centering ourselves on the One who alone is Holy

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