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.
At the end of this year of racial reckoning, with far too many images of black bodies killed, there was something moving in seeing the Queen of Sheba — an African woman, tall and proud — walk toward the Christ child bringing her extravagant gifts.
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For survivors of the bombings of the city and of World War II more generally, this Mary seemed to hold a message: She was in their midst, one of them, a survivor of unimaginable horror, and still cradling badly damaged life. Divine life.
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What we need to live into, not least in this time of ecological emergency, is the reality of a larger, universal, planetary communion: by reason of our createdness, we are kin with everything that is created. Maybe keeping Sabbath is one way to begin to live into this vision.
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No liturgical celebration has ever been protocol free.
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But joy? That seems a tall order.
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When gathering in church is not possible – a spiritual Communion.
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This was my question today.
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Every year, I wonder anew what a “Canticle of Anna” might have sounded like.
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Facing Australia’s devastating wildfires as a challenge to prayer.
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