…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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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.
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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Silent Night?
Putting the “silent” back in Silent Night
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Solstice Rituals
Happy celebration of the Solstice, everyone.
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The Eucharist: A Moment of Deep Betrayal
Who, after all, ever comes to the eucharistic table without having betrayed what God calls us to be?
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Just in Time. And Welcome Indeed: A New “Mass of Welcome”
“I hope this Mass setting will serve as an engaging invitation to liturgical participation and that it will assist in proclaiming the truth that all are welcome at the table of Christ.”
Read moreWhen a Solemnity and a Scandal Fall on the Same Day
There are moments – and yesterday’s Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary was one of them – when the realities around us clash in exceedingly
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