Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD, and let your faithful ones bless you.
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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.
Mountains and Valleys
“Extol the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for the Lord our God is holy.”
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Gathering, Remembering and the Kingdom
May we go forth renewed in the relentlessness of divine love.
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When It Bugs You
“This will not do,” I said to myself.
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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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