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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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.
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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Diocesan Policies Regarding Coronavirus
I invite diocesan directors of worship to share here the policies in place in their dioceses.
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Liturgy and COVID-19
What does it mean to be a people who must exist—even temporarily—without the day of the Lord?
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Liturgy and the οἰκουμένη
Are we promoting the recapitulation of all things in Christ?
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Liturgies and Malls 2
Are our liturgies marked by “a synthetic sense of eternity”?
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The Liturgy of the Mall
How do we understand the ways in which habitual participation in Christian liturgy forms us?
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