Timothy Brunk, Author at PrayTellBlog

Timothy Brunk is associate professor of theology at Villanova University where he teaches courses in sacramental theology, liturgy and culture, and pastoral care of the sick. His The Sacraments and Consumer Culture (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2020) examines the relationships between worship and consumerism. He has published in Horizons, Worship, American Catholic Studies, Studia Liturgica, and elsewhere.

Lazarus: “I want to live”

March 19, 2021 Timothy Brunk Lectionary / Liturgy of Word

Neither in this pericope nor in any gospel passage does Lazarus speak.

Fast and Abstinence and COVID

February 14, 2021 Timothy Brunk c_THEOLOGY Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year

Let us consider ways of practicing penance that are possible in our time and in our regions.

Watching in Advent 2020

December 7, 2020 Timothy Brunk c_after c_THEOLOGY Liturgical Spirituality Liturgical year

“What I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”

All the Saints, All the Souls, and All of Us

November 2, 2020 Timothy Brunk Liturgical Spirituality Saints / Mary

Every day is a day of all the saints, all the souls, and all of us.

Corporation Rituals

September 28, 2020 Timothy Brunk Do It Rite Ritual Studies

On 28 August, the New York Times ran a story with the headline “God Is Dead. So Is the Office. These People Want to Save Both.”

An Assault at Mass

August 25, 2020 Timothy Brunk Eucharist

On 23 August, during Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, a lector was assaulted.

Liturgies and Shopping Carts

July 19, 2020 Timothy Brunk Liturgical Spirituality

When we come to liturgy looking for stability, in what ways are we more or less unintentionally kicking the shopping cart?

Statues, Continued: Symbols Are Actions

June 24, 2020 Timothy Brunk Eucharist Sacramental Theology

Symbols are not static.

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