Exclamations of sadness, distress, and horror all carry within them an implicit yearning for a change in circumstance.
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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.
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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Statues, Continued: Symbols Are Actions
Symbols are not static.
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Gottschalk and George Floyd
If one fails to tackle racism, one is not taking worship seriously at all.
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The Liturgical Sensorium and COVID-19
I hear the Word of God proclaimed in juxtaposition not to a statue of St. Augustine but to two toy statues of Godzilla and Monster Zero in my living room.
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Meditation in front of a Tabernacle
The parish where I worship collects food items at weekend Masses in order to provide support to a food pantry in an impoverished neighborhood in
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