“This will not do,” I said to myself.
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Author: Timothy Brunk
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.
Reflections on a Liturgy of COVID-tide
Like many others, I went to the designated building.
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Lazarus: “I want to live”
Neither in this pericope nor in any gospel passage does Lazarus speak.
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Fast and Abstinence and COVID
Let us consider ways of practicing penance that are possible in our time and in our regions.
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Insurrection and Intercession
Exclamations of sadness, distress, and horror all carry within them an implicit yearning for a change in circumstance.
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Watching in Advent 2020
“What I say to you, I say to all: Watch!”
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All the Saints, All the Souls, and All of Us
Every day is a day of all the saints, all the souls, and all of us.
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Corporation Rituals
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.”
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An Assault at Mass
On 23 August, during Sunday Mass at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, a lector was assaulted.
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Liturgies and Shopping Carts
When we come to liturgy looking for stability, in what ways are we more or less unintentionally kicking the shopping cart?
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