How do we confront our own finitude?
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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.
Creation, Day Seven: For God and Creation, a Day of Rest
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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Entering the Season of Creation 2019 Early, as Fires Ravage the Amazon
The Season of Creation begins September 1. The issue is important every day.
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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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