Teresa Berger, Author at PrayTellBlog

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.

The Order of Creation and the Order of the Liturgy

June 24, 2019 Teresa Berger

Human worshippers always come to worship (as to everything else in life) embodied, including the various ways in which each person is gendered.

Looking Ahead: Celebrating the Nativity of St. John the Baptist

June 17, 2019 Teresa Berger Liturgical year Saints / Mary

Here is to hoping that this year, the birth of John the Baptist will be celebrated on June 24th.

“All You Have Created Rightly Gives You Praise” – and Today, Laments and Groans

May 6, 2019 Teresa Berger Environment and Ecology

…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?

Liturgy, Liturgical Studies, and the Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests

May 5, 2019 Teresa Berger

Odenthal asks what kind of “therapy” and healing might be available for traumatizing and/or traumatized liturgies.

Holy Saturday: Grand Silence, or Great Struggle?

April 27, 2019 Teresa Berger Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year

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

March 25: Feast of God’s “Deep Incarnation”

March 25, 2019 Teresa Berger

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.”

Feast of the Presentation: Anna’s Eloquence

February 2, 2019 Teresa Berger Art and Architecture

…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.